(10/27/10)
So we have some new offerings coming very soon, at least one before the Friday. I’m cuppingCupping is a method of tasting coffee by steeping grounds in separate cups for discrete amounts of ground coffee, to reveal good flavors and defects to their fullest.... a small (14 screen) El SalvadorEl Salvador coffee had an undeservingly poor reputation for years, marred mostly by the inability to deliver coffee of high quality in an unstable political climate. Unfortunately, agriculture... right at this moment, and there is perhaps some new KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East... and EthiopiaEthiopia, formerly known as Abyssinia, or a coffee cultivar: Ethiopia, or more specifically the Empire under Haile Selassie, was known as Abyssinia. The name is Latin, derived from... offerings along with the return of the SulawesiSulawesi coffees are low-acid with great body and that deep, brooding cup profile akin to Sumatra. The coffee is sometimes known as Celebes, which was the Dutch colonial... Toarco AA which, if you don’t remember or didn’t get a chance to try it before, is crazy delicious. In the meantime, here is another Quest video. I can’t say enough how much fun I’m having with this little roaster, really truly impressed and excited about the possibilities. I’ll post some Quest experiments here soon.
