El Pedregal Farm

 

Costa Rica: El Pedregal farm

Roaster: Hiroshi Doi
Roasting Level: Full city

【Comment From Web】
Flowery flagrance. Touch of citrus with hidden with chocolaty sweetness, together with buttery mildness. (Translated)

El Pedregal Farm is a small size family farm located about altitude 1645m of Tarrazu area.


【Impression】
According to a Doi coffee’s 5-scale radar chart, this beans is graded 4 in Sourness/Sweetness/flagrance, 2 in bitterness, and 2 in richness.  Hwever, brewed by paper filter, sourness stands out sharply enough to kill bitterness in base tone. I prefer to serve this coffee thinner only in the morning.

Second Cup:
Cinnamony spicy flavor.  Light body, mild flavor, Muscat like aroma, and clear body.  Sweetness similar to fully matured Apricot as first impression followed by deep bitterness hidden in bottom, which quickly passes by with each sip.


Clock wise from the top:
Aroma/Body/Sourness/Bitterness/Sweetness

Allegro Coffee Company

 

allegro coffee:Italian roast

 This was also Christmas treat from Kumi.


Dark roast, Italian type, but light taste.

Allegro Coffee roasters
She mentioned allegro coffee roasters, sold at Wholefoods, which carries good enough quality and gave me bags, sooo kind!, as Christmas gifts.

Italian roast: This gives rich and strong impression even using a hand drip with paper filter. A French press also makes a strong and bitter cup just like Espresso, but taste of coffee becomes a bit oily. Good with MILK, cafe latte.

For food pairing, Chocolate cookies, Ganache or a piece of chocolate cake, TOPS!.

I miss Strong dark roast American coffee... 

CAFE DE L'MBRE ～ the legend

 

CAFE DE L'MBRE: Tanzania


Finally, I had chance to visit cafe of my dream around X'mas of 2010 and to taste coffee of the legend.

CAFE DE L'MBRE is outstanding coffee roaster for its history as well as its unique coffee beans.

The beans they carries are so called aged beans or old coffee.  Coffee beans are stored in the storage with stable temperature for years.  There are millions of critique, so I will leave any evaluation and explanation of the beans to them.

All I say here is L'mbre's coffee is eye-opening.

I loved taste at cafe and loved even at home.  I bought 100g each of Blend and Tanzania and blew at home, which extremely carming and mild.

L'mbre has over 50 yrs of history.  Mr. Sekiguchi, the founder of L'mbre has been running this business with principles which firmly built into this Cafe, which impressed me more than anything.



CAFE DE L'MBRE: BLEND



Last few years, there are series of specially coffee houses/roasters opened all over Japan serving single farm/origin new crops.  The Cup of excellence has quickly gained its popularity now and there are number of coffee roaster/cafe serves and sells beans so called speciality coffee.  But, I think this booming popularity reminds me of investors on Art in "bubble ara"...

As coffee lover, I am happy to find wide range of choices both beans and roasters, but sometimes wonder where we are really heading to.



Jun Blend

 The very first ship of Arover coffee, Jun Blend, touched me with a little sourness .

 Level of roast: Cinamon ~ city

According to their web site, this has level 3 of richness, and level 2 of flavor, sourness and sweetness in level 5 mesurment.

I prefer different richness, maybe which is called darkness, but taste of this blend reminds me very much of coffee at Japanese old type cafe, Kissa-ten,

Koruri Coffee

My first order from Koruri Coffee.

Although the Coffee sampler is offered for a first-timer, something else inspired me.

Due to my recent addiction to single beans, there are my selections for first time.

Brazil

Pacamara

Ethiopian natural

Hope this roaster fits my taste....

Arover Coffee roaster

Sample order from Arover Coffee in Takamatsu, Kagawa.

Arover's sample shipping is ready to go, so the package came with 3 types of coffee: Blend, 2 single beans.

Shingle beans:
Cerro Del cielo farm in El Salvador
San Jose Farm in Nicaragua

Blend: Jyun

ITALIAN ROAST

Name: Organic Italian Roast
Roaster: Allegro Coffee Company
Roasting degree: Medium Dark

【Comment from Web】
This hearty southern Italian-style roast offers a powerful aroma and rich, velvety sweetness.
This hearty southern Italian-style espresso blend is powerfully aromatic with a rich, velvety finish. A combination of Latin American and East African beans roasted to a hearty, dark degree which makes the perfect base for an espresso drink or for a luscious, full-flavored brewed coffee.

【Impression】
Rather mild and mellow taste with harmonized bitterness without acidity.  Bitter chocolate like aftertaste with a bit of astringency remained.
Better to serve as Latte, or with milk and sugar.