Seattle Coffee Works recently started a Monday coffee cupping, so I went down to participate.
The five coffees on the table were:
Bali Organic Kintamaru Natural
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Kochere
Ethiopia Sidamo Moredocofe
Tanzania Blackburn Estate
Kenya AA Igutha
Hopefully I spelled those correctly. Although I was impressed on how much the Bali impersonated an East Africian coffee, my two favorites were the [...]
Stumptown Coffee hosted the Coffee Club of Seattle on Sunday. At the table, we had several outstanding coffees to cup, including the amazing Panama Esmeralda. Inside the training room, they brewed up four different Colombian micro-lots using the Chemex brewer.
I can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Thank you Stumptown!
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When you attend your first coffee or tea tasting, it can seem overwhelming. How do you take notes describing flavors that are difficult at first to detect or that you don’t even have the vocabulary to describe? Something I’ve noticed about all the coffee and tea tastings is that the flavor descriptions communicated to the [...]
In the post Kona Coffee Confusion, I covered all the different labeling rules for Hawaiian Kona coffee. The conclusion was to look for the 100% label.
BUY 100% Kona Coffee – Island coffee is special and will cost more. Make sure you getting 100% Kona.
Andrew Hetzel thinks Hawaii can even do better than labeling the [...]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a Grand Cru Coffee Cupping at Stumptown Coffee here in Seattle. Stumptown already does daily coffee cuppings at 3 PM. On Mondays they bring out the special coffee and they call this the Grand Cru Coffee Cupping. This is a free event.
This is how Stumptown defines Grand Cru [...]
