Carta Coffee Merchants Latitude Natural Process Kona
Carta Coffee Merchants is a new coffee company based out of Hawaii and founded by winemaker and consultant, Scott Burr. Scott, who grew up in northern California as a third-generation winemaker, fell in love with coffee through his travels to … Read More
Hardy Coffee Co. Sulawesi Pongo Pongo
I’m getting caught up posting some reviews. My mornings, when I usually do all my writing and tasting, have been really crowded with extra work from my real job, so things have been a little slow here on KCcoffeegeek.com. Hopefully … Read More
Just Coffee Co-op Electric Monkey and Espresso Monkey (Decaf)
Just Coffee Co-op is a coffee roaster and, equally if not more so, activism platform based out of Madison, WI. They reached out to me recently about coffee reviews and I happily received a bag of their Electric Monkey Espresso and … Read More
Ross Street Roasting Co. Kenya Barichu Co-op Peaberry
If you’re a regular reader you’ll recall around Thanksgiving 2015 that I was over the moon about Ross Street Roasting Co.’s Finca Idealista, a honey process Nicaraguan coffee. I liked it enough to buy two bags of the coffee from … Read More
Evocation Colombia Las Colinas
I first heard about Amarillo, Texas’s Evocation Micro-Coffee Roastery on the Cat & Cloud podcast in December. Jared and Chris’s two-part episode (SoundCloud links to Part 1 and Part 2) with Evocation’s owner, Roman Leal, left me wanting to get … Read More
Dagger Mountain Roastery Ethiopia Sidama Ardi
We’ve come to the end of the road of the samples that Dagger Mountain Roastery sent my way. Even more sad, this coffee is sold out (although that’s a good problem for my friends in Valparaiso, IN!). Nonetheless, it’s worth … Read More
Dual Use Coffee: A Look at Hardy Coffee Co. Benchmark
Whether roasting coffee for espresso or filter preparation, the art of the roast is to find the flavor profile that works best for the particular type of extraction. The grind size, water temperature, contact time of water with the grounds and … Read More