Coffee

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Tried Peetes Café mocha today. Not for me though. I'm starting to think I like the dark roasts much better.
 
Stumptown, House Blend.

Location: Latin American and East African coffees blends.
Elevation: Varying.
Notes: "Sweet and supremely balanced coffee good for drinking any time of day. Floral and toasted nut aromas are met by ripe fruit and milk chocolate flavors with sweet and snappy finish."
Taste: Initially muddled and bitter but while it aged the sweetness and the acidity balanced out with a concentrated snappy finish.



 
Some Mississippi Mud.
These truffle things are awesome with espresso. Very hard to stop after a just few though.

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Downtown LA coffee jump. Visited 6 places.

Verve,
Kenyan Kiangoi SOE. Opened for less than a month, 2nd time here.

Producer: Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society
Country: Kenya
Region: Kirinyaga
Cultivar: SL-28
Process: Wet-Process
Elevation: 1650 Meters
Harvest: November-March
Notes:Tangerine, Maple, Pillowy
Taste: Well made thick body, sweet, and balanced. 4.5.

 
Cafe Dulce, Little Tokyo. Nice, knowledgeable, and friendly baristas that could talk and service a lot of customers at the same time, which isn't easy to do.

Stumptown, Kenyan Giakanja
Producer: Giakanja Farmers Cooperative Society
Country: Kenya
Region: Nyeri
Cultivar: SL-28, SL-34
Process: Wet-Process
Elevation: 1700-1900 meters
Harvest: November-April
Notes: Mango, Tropical, Ethereal
Taste: Nicely balanced. Initially I was disappointed in the crema body but it tasted great. 4.0.

 
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On Saturday I tried Peet's Blend 101. I was offered a cup on Sunday, so I gave it another try, but it only confirmed Saturday's impressions.

Peet's 101 tastes like Starbucks. That is, it tastes charred or burnt. When I was younger, I think the burnt taste actually appealed to me, and I was a Starbucks regular. But I prefer actual coffee flavors now, and the coffee in Peet's 101 is overwhelmed by the burnt or charred taste.

But I'm right down the highway from Peet's HQ, so I will stick with 'em. Today I will try their Top Blend, a limited release.
 
I get the biggest kick out of the descriptions. I know it's gauche, but it just strikes my funny bone every time.:D
 
COFFEE CoLAB.
Barista was a very skilled pro. Had a good conversation about local roasteries vs. all of the new foreign roasters. http://sprudge.com/coffee-colab-los-angeles-58041.htm
Espresso machine: Rebuilt 1971 Marzocco GS2
Grinder: Compak K10 PB

Suits&Knives (local roaster). Dempsy espresso blend. http://shop.suitsandknivescoffee.com/DEMPSY-12oz-120914SK0006.htm
Blend: African and South American
NOTES: "Jackfruit, Marmalade syrup, heavy chocolate, sweet and complex."
Taste: Sweet, balanced with a viscous crema, syrupy body, and clean finish. 4.5

(Sorry forgot to take pics)
 
Demitasse, Little Tokyo. http://cafedemitasse.com/

Beans: Demitasse, Bali Kitamani. Upcharge for this single origin compared to the house blend. http://cafedemitasse.com/bali-kitamani/
Region: North-Eastern Kitamani highlands on this Indonesian island
Processed: Washed and sun-dried
CoOP: Subak Abian Farmers Organization, a group of farmers working together to help irrigate rice patties
Notes: "Cranberries, plums, white wine."
Taste: Small spectrum that went from sweet to bitter quickly with a bitter finish. Initially a little grassy from maybe underdeveloped beans. 3.0.

 
G&B coffee. Winner of the US 2015 Barista championships. http://gandbcoffee.com/

Beans: 49th Parallel, Honduras La Ocotillo. Same beans they used in the championship. http://www.hotfrog.ca/Companies/49t...ty-Ninth-Parallel-Honduras-El-Ocotillo-182788
Recipe: 18g in 38g out in 28 seconds (Lungo?)
Producer: Natividad Benitez
Varietes: El Cielito in Santa Barbara, Honduras Coffea, Arabica, Bourbon, and Pacas
Elevation: 1600 masl
Processed: Fermented and washed
Notes: "Clean and juicy with flavours of dark chocolate, prunes and wild strawberries."
Taste: Light, sweet, syrupy, with a bitter finsih. 4.0

 
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I'll be in LA in 3 weeks. Thanks for the tip. I plan to check out G & B! And I'll be in Vancouver in June. 49th Parallel added to the shopping list!
 
David Stifle said:
I get the biggest kick out of the descriptions. I know it's gauche, but it just strikes my funny bone every time.:D
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Blue Bottle has some fun descriptions. :D https://bluebottlecoffee.com/store/coffee

Hayes Valley: "The shots are gorgeous achingly heavy with voluptuous red-brown crema, and the silky, somewhat dangerous-looking viscosity of a power-steering stop-leak product once used on our (now departed) heroically battered 1983 Peugeot. In milk, it tastes like chocolate ovaltine. This is the most Brahmsian espresso we have. Brooding and autumnal, it is a coffee to mourn the passing of time."

17 ft. ceiling: " If the Hayes Valley espresso can be like consuming a volume of In Search of Lost Time in liquid form, then the 17ft ceiling is like flipping through the New Yorker – edifying without being taxing."

Giant steps: "If it were any heavier-bodied, you could pour it on pancakes."

Opascope: "beautiful tool for projecting handwriting and finely rendered artwork onto a larger surface. We could blab for hours about its quaint design, its bulky contours, its place in our childhood classrooms. It yields an effervescent shot, packed with stripes of tropicalia"
 
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PrimitiveEnergy said:
Blue Bottle has some fun descriptions. :D https://bluebottlecoffee.com/store/coffee

Hayes Valley: "The shots are gorgeous achingly heavy with voluptuous red-brown crema, and the silky, somewhat dangerous-looking viscosity of a power-steering stop-leak product once used on our (now departed) heroically battered 1983 Peugeot. In milk, it tastes like chocolate ovaltine. This is the most Brahmsian espresso we have. Brooding and autumnal, it is a coffee to mourn the passing of time."

17 ft. ceiling: " If the Hayes Valley espresso can be like consuming a volume of In Search of Lost Time in liquid form, then the 17ft ceiling is like flipping through the New Yorker – edifying without being taxing."

Giant steps: "If it were any heavier-bodied, you could pour it on pancakes."

Opascope: "beautiful tool for projecting handwriting and finely rendered artwork onto a larger surface. We could blab for hours about its quaint design, its bulky contours, its place in our childhood classrooms. It yields an effervescent shot, packed with stripes of tropicalia"
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Darn! You did it to me again! I started chuckling the moment I started reading. Is there a career in writing that stuff? I could do it.

"This coffee reminds one of the mysterious city of Atlantis. Mysterious, lost in time, with swirls of chocolate smoke and ribbons of coke." Well, okay, needs work. :D One more thing! There's been way to many pictures posted lately that are missing a key ingredient-Knives!
 
David Stifle said:
Darn! You did it to me again! I started chuckling the moment I started reading. Is there a career in writing that stuff? I could do it.

"This coffee reminds one of the mysterious city of Atlantis. Mysterious, lost in time, with swirls of chocolate smoke and ribbons of coke." Well, okay, needs work. :D One more thing! There's been way to many pictures posted lately that are missing a key ingredient-Knives!
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How about whisky?
And a knife. :D

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