{"id":1970,"date":"2016-04-19T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2016-04-19T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T15:39:36","slug":"review-roseline-coffee-kenya-othaya-peaberry-portland-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Review: Roseline Coffee Kenya Othaya Peaberry (Portland, Oregon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went back to Houndstooth Coffee in Dallas recently to see if they had any more bags of the Roseline Ethiopia Limu Gera<\/a> I reviewed. They did not, but they did have this Kenyan coffee that sounded delicious. I try not to get swayed too much by roasters’ tasting notes (in fact, I try not to read them at all if I can help it) but I looooooove the flavor combination of lemon and raspberry, so it’s like this coffee knew just what to say to get me to hand over my credit card.<\/p>\n

Whole bean: I’ll be darned. To my nose, these beans did smell like lemon pound cake and raspberry jam.<\/p>\n

V60: A creamy and rich aroma wafted from this cup.\u00a0The flavor was hard to pin down and didn’t finish sweet – it actually had a little bit of a cardboard\/paper flavor. Hmm. I didn’t do anything differently than normal (I used bleached Hario filters and rinsed them thoroughly with hot water before brewing), so I don’t think the papery taste would have come from the filter.<\/p>\n

AeroPress: The concentrate was DELICIOUS. I actually wrote that word in all caps in my review notebook as well! The flavor was complex and joyous. My mouth was so happy – there were flavors of rose, cream, lemon, and vanilla in this coffee. I didn’t add any water to this concentrate because I felt like it would be a crime.<\/p>\n

Chemex: Lovely, lovely cup. Full bodied and full flavored. Creamy and sweet with a lingering complexity. For some reason, all I could think of when I drank this was the opening to Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe. Fellow musicians will understand that a flutist comparing a coffee to this masterwork by Ravel is a pretty big deal.<\/p>\n

French press: Bright and lemony. I wasn’t as impressed with the coffee in this method for some reason. It wasn’t bad, but it lacked the balance that it had in other methods.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Compared to the Roseline Ethiopia Gera, this coffee is brighter, sunnier, and more extroverted. I really adored it brewed in an AeroPress and in the Chemex.<\/p>\n

From the roaster: lemon curd, raspberry tart<\/p>\n

Roseline Coffee Kenya Othaya Peaberry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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