Because I tend to drink my coffee at home, my visits to Dallas-area coffee shops are less about getting coffee to drink and are more about me searching for freshly roasted beans. I internally cheer anytime I find beans that are roasted within a week, but Crooked Tree Coffeehouse managed to have these OCCR beans […]
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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: 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: Driftaway Coffee Colombia Huila Finca el Tabor (Brooklyn, New York)
This review will be a both a usual and an unusual review, in that Driftaway Coffee operates as a coffee subscription company with constantly rotating offerings, so while you may not be able to get these exact beans, I wanted to do a full review of the beans I did receive to give an overview […]
Review: Has Bean Coffee Malawi Msese Wetmill (Stafford, England)
I had a whirlwind trip earlier this summer to the north of England, and I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days in Manchester. As a fan of bands like the Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, the Stone Roses, and James, the city of Manchester is a place I had long wanted to […]
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 […]
Mini review: Slightly Coffee Roasters Guatemala Chochajau (Eugene, Oregon)
When Slightly Coffee’s head roaster, Joe (yes, that really is his name! How appropriate, right?), sent me the sample of his excellent Ethiopia Torea Village, he also included a small bag of this Guatemala Chochajau. It was a bit too small of a quantity for me to do a full battery of tests in my usual […]
Review: Tack and Jibe Ethiopia Sidama (Newport Beach, California)
I started this blog back in 2015 intending it to basically be my coffee diary. As I delved deeper into the world craft coffee and learned about the subtle differences between origins, roasts, brands, etc., I knew I’d want to have a way to keep a record of everything, and in the back of my […]
Review: Anthology Coffee El Salvador El Gobiado-Carmen Orange Bourbon (Detroit, Michigan)
This is the second bag I ordered from Anthology Coffee recently. Both were Bourbons, but this second bag, from El Salvador (a region known for its Bourbon varietals), could hardly be more different from the first bag I got from Burundi. Whole bean: fresh, light scent with a hint of thai basil. Ground, it smelled […]
Review: Blue Bottle Coffee Bella Donovan (Oakland, California)
My lovely friend Chloé recently made an order from Blue Bottle for two bags of this blend, and she graciously let me have one of them to review. When I started dipping my toe into the world of craft coffee around 5 years ago, Blue Bottle was one of the first craft roasters I tried, and […]