Conversations on Coffee

Wow. How many months has it been?

Several interesting things have recently occurred. We had a visit from a Guatemalan coffee farmer at elysian, and it was really neat to be able to see the person that had grown the coffee that we were drinking at that exact moment.

We got in the Aricha lot 7 from Novo, and it is quite something. Being a dry proccessed yirgacheffe, it is insanely fruity; I get strawberry jam as the predominant aroma. In the cup, it has really nice acidity, especially as it cools, and I find the lemon balm common to yirgacheffes taking a bit of a backseat to fruity, tea-like flavours.

Stephen, James, and Anette will be here next Monday, and I am incredibly excited. Besides getting to see Stephen again, I’m pretty stoked to meet James and talk science with him, and maybe somehow wangle my way into a cupping with the world tasting champion, Anette. I hope you guys know that you won’t be sleeping while you’re in Vancouver!

The Best of Panama auction just finished with the #1 going for $130/lb US, green. Craziness. Even crazier is that 49th Parallel has 2 bags!

Espresso at the shop has been really amazing in milk lately, and today was no exception, but straight shots were pretty interesting as well. They were most decidedly ‘chewy’.

Matti