Jul 08 2008
Panama Carmen Estate 1800+ Meters
It looks like I completely neglected to mention this bean; the last of the quarto of beans that I had purchased from Sweet Maria’s last month. Perhaps it is because there is nothing overly special about the cup that causes me to take pause and ponder up some prose related to it. Alas, it does happen to be what is left of my stash until I re-order, so I might as well say something about it.
I roasted it at about 23 minutes, hearing the first cracks at around the 13 minute mark and hearing the second cracks start up just at it was going into the cooling cycle. The beans came out a nice uniform dark brown. The taste is nothing overly spectacular or identifying though. It just tastes like a nice cup of coffee, having nothing to it that distinguishes it from the rest of the pack. I have roasted three different times so far and I have always come up with this ho-hum result. At first I thought that it might just be me being bored with coffee, but after some serious thought and experimentation, I realize that I could never get sick of coffee. Never! So, it must be the coffee itself. I will probably not give this bean any more chances to bore me. I will chalk it up as one that is just not my cup of, err, tea.
