Native Coffee Company‘s exceptional roasts been the best discovery I’ve made in coffee in years, and the fact that they have a showroom/cafe based here in Dallas (where I’m based) makes it even better! This roaster has a special line of beans called Hachi (focusing on innovative coffee processing techniques), and while most of the […]
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Review: Native Coffee Company Colombia Lumen (Dallas, Texas)
After my utter delight tasting and reviewing Native’s Golden Hour, I was very much looking forward to trying more offerings from this roaster. As before, I took the company’s advice and waited 4 weeks from roast date to crack open the bag. It was WELL worth it. Whole bean: Guava and cheesecake! My goodness, what […]
Review: Folly Coffee x Hippo Campus Medium Blend (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
This isn’t the first time I’ve tried and reviewed coffee connected to indie musicians (Tim Peaks/Tim Burgess; Drum Coffee/John Wicks, Fitz and the Tantrums), but this was the first time I’ve ever seen whole bean coffee at a merch table! I went to the Bomb Factory in Dallas last night to catch Hippo Campus, a […]
Review: Cherry Coffee Co. Colombia La Roca (Fort Worth, Texas)
This is the second bag that I picked up from Cherry Coffee Co. during their recent appearance at the Dallas Coffee Festival. Unlike the Hang Around Blend I reviewed previously, which is a wonderful medium-roast blend intended for espresso, the Colombia La Roca is a limited-edition light-roasted single-origin bean. Whole bean: Gorgeous fruity aroma like […]
Review: Cherry Coffee Co. Hang Around Espresso Blend (Fort Worth, Texas)
I attended the inaugural Dallas Coffee Festival earlier this month and had a good time exploring the booths of many local roasters, about half of which I’d not yet heard of. Novel Coffee Roasters is a Dallas-area roaster I’ve enjoyed many times, and I was intrigued to see they were sharing their booth with a […]
Review: Heart Coffee Roasters Kenya Spikes PB (Portland, Oregon)
This is the last bag from my recent order from Heart. Right from the start, when I cut open the bag, the coffee smelled strong and fragrant. It bodes well, especially since I thought the last bag I reviewed from Heart was underwhelming! Whole beans: Buttery, rich, sweet fragrance. Definite notes of butterscotch and a […]
Review: Heart Coffee Roasters Ethiopia Habtamu Fikadu (Portland, Oregon)
Coffees from Ethiopia, and specifically from the Yirgacheffe region, have been a go-to for me for years, so I was interested to see what these beans via Heart had to offer. Whole beans: Subtle and sweet aroma of berries and gentle florals. On a scale of 1-10 in terms of how fragrant the beans were, […]
Review: Native Coffee Company Colombia Golden Hour (Dallas, Texas)
This coffee is incredible. It’s easily the best coffee I’ve had from a Dallas-area roaster, and it rivals some of the most enjoyable coffee I’ve ever experienced anywhere in the world. Let’s dive in! From the Native Coffee Company‘s website: NATIVE is the exclusive roastery + showroom of Diego Bermudez (Co-Owner of NATIVE). Diego is […]
Review: Heart Coffee Roasters Ethiopia Mullugeta Muntasha (Portland, Oregon)
It’s been a while since I’ve had the motivation to review a coffee… life has been busy and to be quite honest, I’ve been drinking coffee mostly out of necessity rather than enjoyment. There’s a certain amount of mental energy I need to have available in order to analyze what I’m tasting, and I just […]
Review: West Berkshire Roastery Signature Gold Espresso Beans (Berkshire, England)
Despite the current trend in specialty coffee leaning toward fruity, juicy light roasts (which I love!), I think that a really good medium/medium-dark roast coffee is a thing of beauty, and it is something that goes under-appreciated these days. There’s something supremely comforting about a cup that has toasty, fragrant notes of chocolate, nuts, and […]