{"id":102,"date":"2015-03-12T08:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=102"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T23:28:14","slug":"review-klatch-coffee-panama-elida-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Review: Klatch Coffee Panama Elida Honey (Upland, California)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been looking forward to trying Klatch Coffee ever since I started reading up on specialty coffee roasters. Klatch is a name I saw mentioned\u00a0repeatedly, along with Intelligentsia, Verve, Counter Culture, Madcap, and Stumptown (especially in an espresso context). The Klatch Belle Espresso<\/a> review will be happening in a few days, but I couldn’t wait to open up my fresh bag of the Panama Elida Honey (roasted March 9, arrived at my house March 11). I’ve had “name-brand” expensive coffees before that hadn’t lived up to the hype (in my opinion), so I was prepared for just about anything. At $22\/12 oz., my wallet would certainly prefer that I didn’t like this coffee.<\/p>\n

Spoiler alert:<\/em> Sorry, wallet.<\/p>\n

First impressions: The whole beans smelled absolutely delicious. It was like a chocolate bar with\u00a0dried currants. Ground, I got hit with spicy notes (like cinnamon\/cloves) and rum cake.<\/p>\n

V60: Very smooth flavor; mouthwatering and juicy. Delicate at the start, but as the coffee cooled slightly, it really opened up. It tasted like butterscotch and a hint of dark chocolate with tangerine on the finish. Absolutely stunning. In fact, I was going to make the coffee a second way to compare and contrast, but I was so taken with this cup that I just sat there and savored the entire 12 oz or so that I made. There was such a nice balance and a deceptive simplicity to it – if this cup was music, it reminded me most of Maurice Ravel.<\/p>\n

The very last drop in the cup smelled exactly like honey. Gorgeous.<\/p>\n

AeroPress: Thick, creamy, with a lemon and graham-cracker flavor. I liked it, but after the perfectly balanced magic of the V60, it almost struck me as bland. I think I was missing the brighter notes.<\/p>\n

Chemex: Very bright and lively with lots of lemony flavor. Comparatively astringent. This was unbalanced to my taste but great for those that like a cup with a lot of citrus.<\/p>\n

French press: Sweet, heavy, and smooth. Not a lot of fruit flavor; much more like bittersweet cocoa.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: For me, V60 all the way. No question. However, it’s also really good in an AeroPress and french press. Worth every penny!!<\/p>\n

From the roaster: This coffee offers pure flavors of light rum, hints of dried fruit, tones of orange-citrus, chocolate and honey along with a very clean, sweet finish.<\/p>\n

Klatch Coffee Roasters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been looking forward to trying Klatch Coffee ever since I started reading up on specialty coffee roasters. Klatch is a name I saw mentioned\u00a0repeatedly, along with Intelligentsia, Verve, Counter Culture, Madcap, and Stumptown (especially in an espresso context). The Klatch Belle Espresso review will be happening in a few days, but I couldn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[6,13,155,3,154],"tags":[63,27,71,74,36,72,70,33,73,69],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_0782-e1430540451847.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5574,"url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=5574","url_meta":{"origin":102,"position":0},"title":"Review: Klatch Coffee 25th Anniversary Blend (Upland, California)","date":"January 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a soft spot for Klatch Coffee - back in the early days of this blog (March 2015, the first month that I started writing coffee reviews), Klatch's Panama Elida Honey was the first coffee that I sampled that made a strong, strong impression on me, and that same\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blends"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeecantata.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG-5393-e1546643076246.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1735,"url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=1735","url_meta":{"origin":102,"position":1},"title":"The Best of 2015","date":"December 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This time of year, indie-music snobs the world over take great pleasure in making and criticizing each others' year-end best-of lists. 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