Why don't we have this????

This AM:

Fresh ground Jamaican Mountain Blue.

My friend was in Jamaica over XMas.......

Yum!

DBW

Nicaragua Laguna Verde Maragogype -- roasted on Tuesday. This is the largest bean I've ever seen, and very tasty.

As I type, I'm roasting the next on deck -- Costa Rica La Minita Terrazu

Peets Arabian Mocha Sonaru. Very small beans. Variety of hues. Not as overroasted as most Peets beans. Rich and very complex.

I got a French Press for Chrismas. What a difference!

Cuban Turquino, excellent! Love those beans.

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I got a French Press for Chrismas. What a difference!

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Indeed! Like comparing a Viper to a Civic, huh? Civic is a nice reliable little car, but it's no Viper.

Sumatran Blue Batak.

I also got a french press for Christmas. WOW!!! I will never go back.

Turquelan Morbiokela

Board - O?

Are your hands on the wrong starting positions on the keyboard?

WTH is that......


DBW

dbw... gee, I thought that was an African folksinger from the early sixties!

Mantunna

You guys are killing me .... I need to start buying/roasting/brewing good coffee. Anybody interested in sending a sad coffee drinker a good coffee?

Today I'm drinking a Guatemalan coffee (from Coban). Not a wow coffee but very clean and interesting.

Last week I had a blend of Ethiopian Harar (2/3) and Mexican Oaxaca (1/3) coffees. It's a interesting blend with good fruit and spice. Have to pick out the less ripe bean out of the Harar tho (they roast much lighter than the fully ripe beans do)...which is slightly annoying.

But...my 'go to' bean/region for the last several months has been then Kenyans. Really fantastic coffees...esp this year.

Some friends brought back some coffee for me from Hawaii. I can't remember exactly but the two things that are sticking out in my mind are Kona and Peaberry???? Help!

Same as you, Jamaican Blue Mountain from whole bean, compliments of my folks who just got back from a cruise.

I roasted some Yemen on Saturday and some Kenya on Sunday.

This morning I just dumped them together. Nice espresso.

Fred,

Kona Peaberry. A variety of Kona coffee where the bean is a round berry, instead of the split/half beans we normally see. Supposedly smoother and just as flavorful. I have had it many times. I find it a notch diferent than Kona, both are very nice and have a wonderful aroma and not a ton of bite, but plenty of nutty and coffee ice cream flavor.

I used to get it routinely from Maui Coffee Company. The have a web site - www.mauicoffeeco.com, I think. I am not affiliated with them, I just bought from them many times and had good results.

DBW

Love the Peaberry as well. We toured one of the coffee farms in Kona in 2001 when we visited, a great time. Peaberry is about the only coffee that I do not sweeten.

(just slightly delayed....)

Glad to hear you're enjoying the french press Bob...one of my favorite ways to have coffee.

Have you tried Peaberry's coffee (in market hall in oakland next to the Pasta shop)? Its been a while since I;ve tried their (and others) stuff but when I was I liked it a lot. Most of them were not overroasted and were quite tasty. I didn't like the espresso's they made there, or the few I had anyways, but their beans were good. Give em a try if you haven't already.

I don't drink coffee, but my wife and sister swear by Peaberry's.

I'm generally too lazy to make coffee in the morning, particularly of the french press method. So, no coffee for me until I get in to the office and drink the available swill. Sad but true.

I'd like to get in to the coffee thing more seriously eventually, but I've got more pressing priorities on the wine hobby front before I get caught up in another food.beverage hobby.

TJ,
Coffee is one of the least expensive geeky pursuits. You can get a French press, roaster, and burr grinder for the cost of a couple nice bottles of wine.

Green beans at ~$5 a pound. This hobby pays for itself!