Once in a while, the staff at Sweet Maria’s takes a few minutes to come together and taste a coffee as a group and compare notes. Recently, we got together to compare Sweet Maria’s unusual offerings of tea. Our El Salvador Cascara and Yemen Qishr were tasted side by side and each proved to be very unique. The QishrQishr is an infused tea beverage that you make using the dried coffee husks of the coffee fruit, a by-product of of the natural dry-process method. Now it... came off as the more subtle contender while the Cascara was a bit more bold, super fruityIn some coffee taster’s lexicon, “fruity” means the coffee is tainted with fruit, and “fruited” means a coffee is graced by positive fruit notes. We don't exactly see..., juicy. Our staff discovered spicy hints of jamaicaJamaica coffee can be excellent mild, lush coffee... sometimes. Like Kona and Puerto Rican coffee, it is soft, mild, clean and well balanced when it is good.: Ah..., hibiscus, tamarind and fruit in general.
We found that adding a bit of honeyIn coffee, honey-like sweetness is often found, but we use terms such as refined honey (highly filtered and processed) as opposed to raw honey rustic honey sweetness. This... changed the taste dramatically and made us curious as to what a little cream would bring (we don’t normally have cream/creamer/milk around here). Curious? There are a lot possibilities…cream, sugar, cooking, sauces, baking, beer brewing….and iced tea!
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