Early on in my specialty coffee journey, I learned about the “rule of 15s”: for best flavor, use ground coffee within 15 minutes, roasted whole bean coffee within 15 days, and green coffee within 15 months. If this rule of thumb holds true across the industry, that means many coffee roasters could be working with […]
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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: 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: BeanFruit Coffee Company Ethiopia Sidama Guji (Jackson, Mississippi)
This is the second of two bags of coffee I had the pleasure of receiving from the BeanFruit Coffee Company, based in the Jackson, Mississippi area. Their Kenya Nyeri Chinga Peaberry really knocked my socks off, and I was excited to see how this washed coffee from Ethiopia compared; I do have a soft spot […]
Review: La Colombe Coffee Roasters Colombia San Roque (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
If you’ve heard of the show Dangerous Grounds on the Travel Channel, you might already be familiar with Todd Carmichael, one of the men behind La Colombe Coffee Roasters. I admit, I have never seen the show, so I went into this tasting almost completely blind. The only real association I had with La Colombe […]
Review: thirty-thirty Coffee Co. Kenya Kirinyaga (Peoria, Illinois)
This is the last selection in my most recent shipment from Craft Coffee. I feel like I have been drinking a lot of African coffee lately (and there are still more African coffees to come in the pipeline!), but I am also learning that there is so much variety in the coffees from this continent […]