{"id":815,"date":"2015-07-09T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:28:12","slug":"review-lift-coffee-ethiopia-kochere-riverside-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lift Coffee Ethiopia Kochere (Riverside, California)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another selection from Craft Coffee. This coffee reminded me a lot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=84\">Three Ships Konga Ethiopia Yirgacheffe<\/a>\u00a0that I reviewed back in March. Both are natural-processed Ethiopian heirloom varietals, and the beans are quite lightly roasted and smaller than typically\u00a0seen.<\/p>\n<p>Whole beans: Bright, juicy berry aroma. It smells like a mix of tart blueberries and raspberries. Once the beans were ground, they got super sweet and it smelled like blueberry muffins. Yum!<\/p>\n<p>French press: Once the slight plasticky scent that I find common to natural-processed Ethiopian coffees dissipated, I tasted a lot of cocoa powder and raspberry. A little tart and bright, but the most dominant flavor was the rich depth of cocoa. Very juicy cup.<\/p>\n<p>Chemex: Very little cocoa in this &#8211; it had a thin body that smelled like raspberries. It also had a hint of floral character. I could definitely taste the hibiscus.<\/p>\n<p>AeroPress: I got even more cocoa in this cup than in the french press cup. This had very little if any fruit character to it. Very smooth, but I felt it was a bit dull compared to the other methods.<\/p>\n<p>V60: This cup struck a nice balance between the Chemex and french press cups with a cleaner, drier finish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong> Lively, bright coffee with lots of red berry flavor. My favorite of this batch was the french press rendition, as I thought the dichotomy between the cocoa and the raspberry notes was very nice. The Chemex cup was also delicious!<\/p>\n<p>Notes from the roaster: Floral scents of hibiscus reveal bittersweet flavors of raw cocoa and ripe gooseberries.<\/p>\n<p>This coffee is not currently offered online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liftcoffeeroasters.com\/\">Lift Coffee Roasters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another selection from Craft Coffee. This coffee reminded me a lot of the Three Ships Konga Ethiopia Yirgacheffe\u00a0that I reviewed back in March. Both are natural-processed Ethiopian heirloom varietals, and the beans are quite lightly roasted and smaller than typically\u00a0seen. Whole beans: Bright, juicy berry aroma. It smells like a mix of tart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Smells like a blueberry muffin, and tastes like a chocolate-raspberry truffle.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[7,156,159,3,154],"tags":[62,42,117,103,89],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/tn_IMG_1116.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6380,"url":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=6380","url_meta":{"origin":815,"position":0},"title":"Review: Black Diesel Coffee Ethiopia Yirgacheffe (Ann Arbor, Michigan)","date":"February 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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