dbw4
Grape Puncher
Posts:902
 | | 01/15/2005 1:57 PM |
| Why don't we have this????
This AM:
Fresh ground Jamaican Mountain Blue.
My friend was in Jamaica over XMas.......
Yum!
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ChangeMe
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2042
| | 01/15/2005 4:29 PM |
| 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 | | | |
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ChangeMe
Grape Puncher
Posts:886
| | 01/15/2005 5:18 PM |
| 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! | | | |
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love_cab_chard
Master of Wine
Posts:12352
| | 01/15/2005 7:47 PM |
| Cuban Turquino, excellent! Love those beans.
Quote:
I got a French Press for Chrismas. What a difference!
Indeed! Like comparing a Viper to a Civic, huh? Civic is a nice reliable little car, but it's no Viper. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts:1475
| | 01/16/2005 3:12 AM |
| Sumatran Blue Batak.
I also got a french press for Christmas. WOW!!! I will never go back. | | | |
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ChangeMe
Master of Wine
Posts:11169
| | 01/16/2005 4:48 AM |
| | Turquelan Morbiokela | | | |
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dbw4
Grape Puncher
Posts:902
| | 01/16/2005 4:30 PM |
| Board - O?
Are your hands on the wrong starting positions on the keyboard?
WTH is that......
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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11833
| | 01/16/2005 4:37 PM |
| dbw... gee, I thought that was an African folksinger from the early sixties!  | | | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts:1533
| | 01/16/2005 7:23 PM |
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NorCalVinoLover
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2200
| | 01/18/2005 6:16 PM |
| 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?
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EricLundblad
Grape Fermenter
Posts:557
| | 01/18/2005 6:54 PM |
| 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. | |
Ladd Cellars | |
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Fred
Wine Thief
Posts:2673
| | 01/18/2005 7:28 PM |
| | 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! | |
"It's better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out, then outside the tent pissing in." -- Lyndon Johnson | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts:1371
| | 01/18/2005 7:35 PM |
| | Same as you, Jamaican Blue Mountain from whole bean, compliments of my folks who just got back from a cruise. | | | |
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BryanG
Oakland, CA
Grape Destemmer
Posts:56
| | 01/18/2005 8:40 PM |
| I roasted some Yemen on Saturday and some Kenya on Sunday.
This morning I just dumped them together. Nice espresso. | |
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dbw4
Grape Puncher
Posts:902
| | 01/19/2005 4:58 PM |
| 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.
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ChangeMe
Barrel Filler
Posts:1371
| | 01/19/2005 5:05 PM |
| | 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. | | | |
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EricLundblad
Grape Fermenter
Posts:557
| | 01/19/2005 6:04 PM |
| (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. | |
Ladd Cellars | |
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DukeRiley
McMinnville, OR
Barrel Racker
Posts:1982
| | 01/20/2005 3:31 AM |
| | I don't drink coffee, but my wife and sister swear by Peaberry's. | |
Heater Allen Brewing
www.heaterallen.com | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts:13660
| | 01/20/2005 2:05 PM |
| 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.  | |
www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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ChangeMe
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2042
| | 01/20/2005 2:23 PM |
| 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!
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