Jun 12 2008
variety is the spice
Well, I went a little crazy with my latest purchase from Sweet Maria’s. I bought four different one pound bags of coffee to experiment with and resisted from buying up any more of the Liberica ( I need to control my inner Anohki fiend). The priciest coffee I bought was the Brazilian Jacu Bird Coffee, a coffee which is first, err, processed by by bird before it is dried and shipped. My girlfriend sniffed the bag, and joked that it did smell a little like bird poop. Tom, the Sweet Marias dude, insists that the unusual processing does not impart any significant flavor, but I have to find this out for myself. I also bought some Colombia Cauca Finca El Roble (4 star) which was one of the new coffees featured on the site. I do not know too much about this coffee but I am a sucker for anything with stars in the title. To round out the selection I got some Panama Carmen Estate 1800+ meters and some Ethiopia Organic “Menno’s Mist Valley”. Hopefully, these are all good cups.
I find that variety is indeed the spice of life when it comes to my coffee choices. One of the first coffees I tried was the Aged Sumatra Lintong, and I totally dug the licorice, tobacco undertones. I dug it so much, that I went ahead and bought a two pound sack of the beans. Sure enough, I got sick of it and felt the need to move on. I think I still got some laying around, waiting for me to give it another try.
