Jul 04 2008
A lemony blend
I decided to to try to make a signature blend out of the Liberica and the longberry, along with some left over Kona the other day, and ended up with a coffee that is way to lemony for my tastes. I was initially inspired by this really tasty blueberry wheat beer that I buy all the time from Trader Joe. This brew goes down well with a little slice of lemon, so my thinking was that the lemon nuances of the remaining ounce longberry cultivar would mix well with the blueberry taste of the of the several ounces Anohki I had left. I also had a couple of ounces of some kona left, so I decided to throw that in as well, to kind of balance the whole thing out. Sounds like a good plan right?. Having a Nesco and not wanting to make a bunch of small batches, I just threw them all in together and roasted them for 24 minutes.
The end result was a really acidic coffee with an overpowering lemon taste. I could barely finish a cup, let alone a pot. It was a good thing that I still had some of the Menno’s Misty Valley left over, to wash away the taste of this lemon of a blend. Well, I suppose that is the downside of experimentation, sometimes you get a pleasant surprise, and other times you get a lemon.
