Happy Monday! What better way to start the week than with a coffee called Bliss Creek? That’s right, we’re back with Cody Coffee Roaster from Cody, Wyoming. It’s Monday and there’s a lot to get done, so let’s drink!
Purchase this coffee directly for $14/16oz
Other reviews in this series: The Cutoff (Dark Roast Honduras) | Signal Peak (Medium Roast Colombia)
CODY COFFEE ROASTER BLISS CREEK (PERU)
What do you get when you mix a small mountain town in Wyoming, a repurposed peanut roaster and a stay at home dad? Cody Coffee Roaster! Jesse Renfors started roasting coffee a few years ago and that quickly blossomed from sharing coffee with friends to making deliveries around town by bike. Eventually, Jesse found a camper he converted into the Roast Coach and then opened his current location, which also serves food, in June 2016. With rave online reviews for his crepes, it sounds like Jesse is pretty dialed in and he is keeping the town of Cody, Wyoming well fed and well caffeinated!
This morning I’m tasting Cody Coffee Roaster’s Bliss Creek. This is a single origin Peruvian coffee and that’s the extent of what I know about it other than Jesse states that all CCR coffees are fair trade and organic, too. Bliss Creek is a medium roast that gives, “milk chocolate undertones and blueberry accents.” I’m using my standard pourover setup of a 1:16 ratio of 22g of coffee to 352g of Third Wave Water in a Trinity Origin dripper with Kalita 155 filter and all the filter holder holes blocked except for the middle three. The Knock Aergrind is doing the hard work.
I’m greeted by a medium-heavy bodied coffee with a syrupy mouthfeel. I’m getting a lot of green apple and some almonds and walnuts in the flavors here. The finish has a chocolate milk vibe for me with this robust body and smooth mouthfeel and there is definitely a quality milk chocolate note to the aftertaste of this cup.
This is, perhaps, the shortest review I’ve published to date on KC Coffee Geek and that definitely does not reflect the quality of this coffee. It’s a great drinker, balanced, easy to drink, sweet with some nice nuances, but I just don’t have a whole lot to elaborate on for this one. When I share this with work friends it’ll go over really well because it’s an easy drinker and not a challenging coffee on the palate in any way, so it’ll be perfect for the Bonavita 1600 I keep at work, as well as my newly acquired superauto espresso machine I keep there. Yum!