For anyone in the Far North Dallas area who is interested in the current trend of very light-roasted coffee, often with co-fermentation and experimental processing, I recommend that you check out Filtered Coffee in McKinney for their expertly curated bean selection. They first got on my radar when I discovered that they started to carry […]
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Review: Cat & Cloud Coffee Best Friends Blend (Santa Cruz, California)
I picked up this bag from Cat & Cloud at the Wayward Coffee location in Dallas’s Design District. The Best Friends blend is intended for espresso, but as I don’t have an espresso machine anymore, I will be solely be evaluating these beans brewed as coffee. Hario V60: This had a tart citrus flavor with […]
Review: Lemma Coffee Co. Nicaragua ‘Baklava + Mango’ (Carrollton, Texas)
I received this intriguing bag of coffee as a birthday present from a dear friend (thank you, Jennifer!!), and I’ve been looking forward to reviewing it properly. Lemma Coffee Co. is a coffee roaster based in North Texas that currently has three locations throughout the Metroplex (Carrollton, Frisco, and Plano). I realized when doing research […]
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: 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: Rare Bird Coffee Roasters Colombia La Hermosa (Falls Church, Virginia)
I visited the Rare Bird Coffee Roasters cafe in early January 2023. Normally, I prefer to drink black coffee, but if I see an unusual item on a cafe’s menu, I’ll try it out of curiosity. That morning, I tried their cardamom vanilla latte (very sweet, creamy, and dessert-like), and picked up a bag of […]
Review: Black Diesel Coffee Ethiopia Yirgacheffe (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
I’ve enjoyed drinking coffee for decades, but I still remember the one coffee that changed everything, the one that awakened my senses and introduced me to a world I never knew existed. The coffee was a natural-processed Ethiopian, and I remember marveling at its sweetness, the blueberry aroma, and how much I enjoyed drinking it […]
Review: Drum Coffee Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Banko Gotiti FTO (Missoula, Montana)
I first heard about Drum Coffee via my friend Brandon, a fantastically talented percussionist who happened to stop in at one of their locations while on a road trip. My first reaction to the roaster’s name was, ha, nice pun (since I figured they use a drum roaster to roast their coffee beans). But on […]
Review: 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters Colombia El Madrigal (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The one Canadian roaster I was familiar with (just from my time browsing coffee forums) was 49th Parallel, so I knew that I needed to definitely make finding their coffee a priority. I had hoped that Revolver Coffee would be carrying some (with no car on this trip, it would have been nice to have […]