{"id":5580,"date":"2019-01-29T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:43:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:43:39","slug":"review-iconik-coffee-roasters-holiday-blend-luminaria-santa-fe-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=5580","title":{"rendered":"Review: Iconik Coffee Roasters Holiday Blend Luminaria (Santa Fe, New Mexico)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santa Fe, New Mexico was one of the places I was able to visit in the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve this past winter, and while coffee sourcing wasn’t my first priority (family time was!), I did make a little bit of an effort to see if there were notable coffee roasters\/cafes within a reasonable distance of where we’d be that week. On our one afternoon in Santa Fe, largely spent at the Georgia O’Keeffe museum<\/a>, I found that Iconik Coffee Roasters had a cafe location just blocks from the museum, so I convinced my family to take a little side trip there before we left town. The\u00a0L\u00fape location (on Guadal\u00fape St.) was a combination coffee shop\/bookstore, so it was pretty much heaven in my eyes!<\/p>\n

The name of this holiday blend (Luminaria) attracted me – what a beautiful sounding word! It turns out that there is a regional connection here; Merriam-Webster<\/a> defines a luminaria as “a traditional Mexican Christmas lantern originally consisting of a candle set in sand inside a paper bag.” We saw quite a few of these during our time in New Mexico, and they’re quite beautiful when lit!<\/p>\n

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(Photo from the ABQ Trolley Co.)<\/p>\n

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(Photo from visitalbuquerque.com)<\/p>\n

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(Photo from TripAdvisor)<\/p>\n

Whole bean: These beans smelled strongly of blueberries and rich chocolate. Delicious!! The bag noted that this was a blend of Guatemala Honey (honey-processed, I presume?) and Ethiopia Natural so the scent was very much what I expected.<\/p>\n

V60: Dark chocolate flavor in the cup with a lovely fragrance of blueberry. Very sweet aroma. This cup, I made with a 3:45 extraction time – on the longer side of what I normally aim for with the Hario V60, but it tasted great.<\/p>\n

Chemex: This method, my extraction time was a little on the short side (only 3:36). There was more of a berry flavor in this and less chocolate, but it also had a little bit of a pithy\/bitter character to it at first that I didn’t care for. It subsided a bit as the coffee cooled, though.<\/p>\n

French press: This was heavy on the chocolate – it tasted like melted milk chocolate with just the barest hint of berry flavor. It really was mostly cocoa with milk (though I hadn’t added any milk at all).<\/p>\n

AeroPress: Quite similar to the French press cup.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: Chocolate and blueberries don’t exactly scream “holiday” to me – I think it’s a flavor profile that’s great ANY time of year, not just in the winter months! – but regardless, I liked this blend a lot. Go for an immersion method if you like more chocolate flavor in the cup, or the V60 if you like more blueberry flavor in the cup. I wasn’t wild about this coffee in the Chemex as I think that method brought out notes that made this coffee unbalanced.<\/p>\n

From the roaster: No tasting notes provided<\/p>\n

Iconik Coffee Roasters Online Shop<\/a> (link goes to their whole bean coffee offerings, sorted in a drop-down menu)<\/p>\n

Review conducted 9 days post-roast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santa Fe, New Mexico was one of the places I was able to visit in the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve this past winter, and while coffee sourcing wasn’t my first priority (family time was!), I did make a little bit of an effort to see if there were notable coffee roasters\/cafes within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5564,"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":[158,87,159,155,3,154],"tags":[136,62,42,36,61,354],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG-5805-e1546711542478.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5840,"url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=5840","url_meta":{"origin":5580,"position":0},"title":"Review: Pallet Coffee Roasters Guatemala Santa Clara Estate (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)","date":"July 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Pallet Coffee Roasters had topped at least one list I had seen for \"Best Vancouver Coffee Roasters,\" so I spent the time in between checking out of my Airbnb and checking in at the airport navigating public transit to get myself to Pallet's one cafe. 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