Aug 23 2008
Again with the Gesha
coffee cup collection pic 2I guess I am always doing this. I try some new coffee that I get and intially find it lacking only to turn around and end up liking it. Perhaps the taste just grows on me, or maybe I just happen to find that sweet spot within the roast. I really do not know. My initial thoughts on the Panamanian Esmeralda Gesha Auction lot #5 was that it was lacking character and was not worth the inflated asking price. Well, as I said in my last blog about this particular bean, I still had one more batch to determine whether I this stuff was worth revisiting.
Well, as you can probably guess from the tone of this blog, After this last batch, I once again changed my mind on this coffee. I roasted it for a minute less this time, then let it rest a full day before indulging. Yesterday morning, this cup just blew me away. The taste was still subtle, a bit nutty, a little creamy, yet now there was something else, something more complex beneath the nuttiness that slapped at my taste buds and made me want more. It was the same thing this morning. I brewed the remaining beans in my chemex and was rewarded with another pot of primo coffee. Whatever it was that I did, I had definitely hit the sweet spot on roast number three and now I am regretting that it was the last of the stuff.
I now plan to give the next level of the Gesha (lot number 10) a shot when I add to my stash next week. I can now justify spending the 18 bucks after this experience. Hopefully I will not be disappointed until the last batch like I was with lot number 5. Who knows I might even like it so much that I will end up cashing in a few stocks and and invest in a pound of the 125 dollar a pound stuff.
