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Handsome Roaster’s Kenya Ruthagati is…

V60/3:12

…blackberries, vanilla, tobacco, a bright explosion.

AeroPress/2:43

Hot: …sharp, concentrated, blackberry syrup made with molasses

Cooler: …bright, darkly fruity.

This was the last of Handsome’s stock of Kenya Ruthagati. You will be missed. It made a hell of a SO shot as well.

Penned by Daniel, in Recently brewed, Tasting notes on 5 January 2012 tagged Kenya, Los Angeles

Good morning…

…from Pasadena and this juicy, juicy Intelligentsia Kenya Tegu.

Closer to the sun today, I think. That must be it.

Penned by Daniel, in Cafe tramp, Tasting notes on 25 August 2011 tagged hot…damn hot, I ♥ Kenya, juicy, Los Angeles

Paper or Plastic drop-in

Currently…

Penned by Daniel, in Cafe tramp, Links, Photography on 20 August 2011 tagged Los Angeles

The back door

Off Douglass Alley, at Intelligentsia, Pasadena.

Oh, and La Tortuga, if you must know.

Penned by Daniel, in Cafe tramp, Photography on 9 August 2011 tagged Los Angeles

This beautiful Kenya was my first stab at a coffee offering from one Los Angeles’ newest roasters, Tonx Coffee, and was gifted to me by a friend in Oakland. In fact it made an almost comic journey to my cup: roasted in L.A. and shipped to Oakland, only to make its way all the way back to my new Southern Californian home as a gift. It’s an amazing world we live in.

Tonx is new and small. He (“Tonx” being both his company and his nickname) offers up extremely small batches of coffees he finds exceptional and is exclusively mail order. And he runs out fast.

Distinct from some other Kenyas I’ve tasted by the balance achieved between it’s dark sugar and its fruity sides. Molasses, fruit punch and apples & cinnamon. Gorgeous.

Penned by Daniel, in Recently brewed, Tasting notes on 7 August 2011 tagged Los Angeles