Beans: Seattle Sunrise
Roaster: Seattle Coffee Works
Roasting degree: Medium
【Impression】
Medium, nutty aroma, soothing, lightly citric, cardamon, caramel, cinnamon, smooth texture, high lemony tone, white grape fruits, soothing acidity, a touch of lime and orange, mellow but sheer sweetness, light bitterness bottoms flavor, creamy, raw cacao, dark chocolate like cacao flavor, cacao like sweetness as a long lasting aftertaste.
【Note】
According to Seattle Coffee Works, this blends makes the best cup in the morning and mix of Central American beans with Medium roast. Seattle coffee still provides better mouth feel when roasting degree stays medium dark to dark. Especially, at Seattle Coffee works, cup flavor is impressive with deeper roasting.
After visiting lovely "Ballard Coffee Works", the question comes up: Is there any choice than visiting Seattle Coffee Works?"
So, here is Seattle Coffee Works in downtown Seattle, near Pike place market.
The cafe is located on Pike St., between 2nd and 1st Ave. Since brief history of Seattle Coffee Works has been covered in Ballard Coffee Works post, This post focuses on introducing Seattle Coffee Works.
Although Seattle Coffee Works has limited space, you may notice their unique floor layout once step in a cafe. They divided the space into 3 sections: espresso bar on the left, brew bar on the right and roasting room through the door . Brew bar is hidden behind roasted/packaged beans shelf and kind of separated by a hip high swing door from the lest of cafe space.
With the order of Soy latte, Latte art came out as angel with a heart shaped head. In San Francisco, Ballistas often says SOY has less capability to bring silky and creamy texture form to last long, so that they prefer/switched Almond Milk, which bottle shapes like a 18c woman. However, "the almond milk movement" seems like hasn't affects Seattle Coffee here yet.
Soy Latte at Seattle Coffee Works came with silky and milky creamy soy form stays until 16oz cup became empty. Compared with Ballard Coffee works, drink was soft, creamy and comforting.
Maybe, it was just because out side was heavy rain.
Maybe, I was soaking wet.
Environmental-wise, Ballard Coffee Works has more "handy" and "stay-as-long-as-you can stay".
Considering the location, in the middle of Seattle downtown very close to Pike Place Market, Seattle Coffee Works cafe has considerably friendly atmosphere for both locals and tourists.
