For anyone that read about my incredible water drama with LAMILL’s Ethiopia Wote Konga beans, rest assured that for espresso tastings, I only use bottled water with a maximum of 3 grains hardness… this water has never seen a cremini mushroom. 😉 As I noted in my previous LAMILL review, these beans were not freshly […]
Blends
Review: Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters Winter Bloom Blend (Denver, Colorado)
I ordered this bag at the same time as I ordered the Sweet Bloom Colombia Huila Timana. The Winter Bloom is one of their seasonal blends, and I think I got it toward the end of its availability (in December) because it was gone from the website by early- to mid-January. Sorry to say you […]
Review: 3 Sunflowers Organic Coffee Jade Blend (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
It’s always a nice surprise when I get an offer to review a coffee from a small roaster! The driving force behind 3 Sunflowers is a lovely woman named Megz. It’s worth reading her story in her own words on the Our Story page on the 3 Sunflowers website but to sum up, this coffee […]
Review: Ceremony Coffee Roasters Destroyer Blend (Annapolis, Maryland)
If I wasn’t already a fan of Ceremony Coffee Roasters (I very much enjoyed their single-origin Guatemala Las Moritas!), the fun, nerdy, creative names for their coffee blends would have sealed the deal. Not all of their blends are available on their website at any given time, but so far I’ve seen blends called Mass […]
Review: Two Guns Beach Blend (Manhattan Beach, California)
I picked up this bag from the Two Guns Espresso location in Manhattan Beach at the same time that I got a bag of the Two Guns Espresso Blend. Both of these bags are roasted by Dillanos Coffee Roasters in Washington. I don’t think it’s possible to buy Two Guns-branded beans online, but you can […]
Review: Two Guns Espresso Blend (Manhattan Beach, California)
Credit goes to the Yelp app for helping me find the Two Guns Espresso cafe in Manhattan Beach! This coffee shop is located just minutes from LAX airport, and when I read that it is a shop founded by two New Zealanders, I hightailed it over to the shop as fast as I could. I […]
Review: Avoca Coffee Roasters Misty Valley (Fort Worth, Texas)
A recent trip to Denton gave me time to visit Shift Coffee, which has featured interesting roasters in the past like Kuma and Chocolate Fish. This particular visit, they were featuring bags from local Fort Worth roaster Avoca, so I opted for Misty Valley, which is a blend of two Ethiopian coffees (Yirgacheffe and Gedio). […]
Review: Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters Sunset Blend (Dallas, Texas)
Davis Street Espresso is the home cafe for Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters here in Dallas, but though I’ve gotten pretty familiar with OCCR over the past 2 years, I hadn’t visited Davis Street Espresso until quite recently because 1) I just don’t go out for espresso much and 2) I’m not typically in the area […]
Review: Brown Coffee Co. Cottonwood Espresso (San Antonio, Texas)
I ordered this bag of the Brown Cottonwood Espresso at the same time that I ordered their Candy Factory. The Candy Factory was roasted May 24, but the Cottonwood must have been roasted to order because it was roasted May 30 (I ordered May 29). There was a bit of delay in the shipping, but […]
Review: Brown Coffee Co. Candy Factory (San Antonio, Texas)
I’m long overdue in checking out Brown Coffee Company, as they’re pretty well known in Texas and nationwide. Interesting name, isn’t it… I have no clue why the founder(s) chose the name Brown (perhaps it’s the last name of one of the people that started the company?), but in my head, I always think of […]