Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

June 26 2006

Monday Morning Tastings

I made two different coffees today. Our morning shared pot was the Sumatran Mandheling I roasted on the 21st, and then later, I made a pot just for myself of the Horse Harar #19. For this batch of Horse, I roasted twice, and combined them. The first batch was to City+, and the second (barely) to Vienna. My Oh My, I think I'm in love.

The Mandheling was very good, but I am looking forward to seeing how it tastes tomorrow. I think I will grind it a bit finer as I am not sure the varietal part is coming out in the cup.

The Horse was just perfect--lots of body with a very nice finish. I can't say I noticed the blueberry in the cup, though I could smell it, but that might be because the roast was older than it should have been. I had planned on trying it on Saturday, but parts of my life that have nothing to do with coffee intervened.

My sinus infection is on its way out, finally. I just may have to try all the roasts I did over the last two weeks again. I'm pretty sure it was throwing off my ability to really taste all that good coffee.