{"id":951,"date":"2015-08-01T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=951"},"modified":"2015-08-24T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T01:23:59","slug":"review-temple-costa-rica-los-lajas-golden-honey-sacramento-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeecantata.co\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Review: Temple Costa Rica Las Lajas Golden Honey (Sacramento, California)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Temple Coffee Roasters, based out of Sacramento, CA, is an award-winning roaster who has racked up accolades, including multiple 90+ point coffee ratings as rated by Coffee Review. I picked up this bag from Vero’s Coffee Bar<\/a>\u00a0on my recent work trip to San Jose without tasting it first; I opted instead to sample their house espresso while there (which happened to be Intelligentsia Black Cat Analog. No bags of that available for sale, unfortunately).<\/p>\n

Whole beans: Cherry and honey aromas. Sweet.<\/p>\n

V60: Aroma was crazy sweet – it smelled like floral honey. The taste was a bit less sweet; there were some tannins present. The cup overall was very fragrant – almost like perfume. It sweetened as it cooled.<\/p>\n

AeroPress: Faint scent of dog! What?! It faded after a minute or so but I was wondering if I somehow did something wrong in the brewing process. After the dog smell went away, I smelled graham cracker and light floral notes. I couldn’t bring myself to drink much of this cup.<\/p>\n

Chemex: Sweet scents of honey, graham crackers, and flowers. Pretty similar to the V60 cup.<\/p>\n

French press: More perfumey and less sweet. The dog smell hit me again at the start, so I’m wondering if that’s just something that happens with the immersion methods?<\/p>\n

This coffee broke my heart a little bit. To clarify about the dog scent, it wasn’t wet dog, and it wasn’t even really an unpleasant smell. The smell took me back to two years ago, when I was cuddling my dog, Penny, for the last time before we put her to sleep. I\u00a0buried\u00a0my face in her neck as I said goodbye, and for whatever reason, this coffee brewed in the AeroPress smelled exactly like that moment. I’m crying as I type\u00a0this – I certainly wasn’t expecting to have such an emotional reaction to a coffee, but somehow, this coffee brought back that day so vividly that I am glad that no one was around while I did this tasting. Was this a bad cup of coffee? No, not at all, really, but I just can’t emotionally handle this one in an immersion method. This marks the first time a coffee has ever made me sob uncontrollably!<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong>: My heart can’t take drinking this coffee again, but if I were to do so, I’d stick with the V60 or Chemex for brewing.<\/p>\n

From the roaster: Rainier cherry, lilac, sweet wine<\/p>\n

This coffee is not currently available online.<\/p>\n

Temple Coffee Online Store<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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