Very different, and not just re the small matter of the actual beverage that has been consumed.
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Not that often I drink Espresso at this time at day - 20:00/8PM.
But so it is when hours has been strange. I'm enjoying if fully ☕️😋
But so it is when hours has been strange. I'm enjoying if fully ☕️😋
Espresso in the evening (rather than, say, a filter coffee) is one of the things that I find even more enjoyable when consumed in congenial company.
In the mornings, in a coffee shop, with a good book or a newspaper (yes, a real newspaper), to keep one company, human company is entirely unnecessary, but still quite welcome on occasion.
The problem is that many of the really good coffee shops are shut by 17.00 or 18.00.
Thai coffee, honey processed (black honey processed, to be precise) served with organic hot milk.
Looking for a new insulated coffee travel bottle for my commute. I dropped my old trusty Klean Kanteen and it is dented. Considering a Hydro Flask but I really enjoy the patented "cafe cap" that Klean Kanteen uses -- easy to clean and great for drinking coffee as opposed to water or other kinds of beverages. Does anybody have a preferred drinking bottle for commuting?
My regular coffee cup serves as my "commuting bottle" since I work from home.......but I do have a nice insulated metal mug that fits quite nicely in the cup holder of my car during trips to meetings. One can never count of the quality of coffee at a meeting.
Today's morning brew is a blend from Hawaiian roaster; a dark roast with notes of dark chocolate, cola (yes cola) and toasted marshmallow.
The dark chocolate and the cola notes are readily noticeable and very enjoyable. The "toasted" part of "toasted marshmallow" is also there but not so strongly as might be expected from a dark roast.
It's very nice and I'll be sad when my small supply runs out. I'd get it again except it turns out that it was a small batch product that's sold out now
The dark chocolate and the cola notes are readily noticeable and very enjoyable. The "toasted" part of "toasted marshmallow" is also there but not so strongly as might be expected from a dark roast.
It's very nice and I'll be sad when my small supply runs out. I'd get it again except it turns out that it was a small batch product that's sold out now
That sounds intriguing.
When trying a new coffee, or a new product, or offering from a small, local roaster, - and there are times when I try to move out of my coffee comfort zone, otherwise, I, would never sample anything other than Ethiopian coffee, which would be rather unfortunate - I usually buy a small, standard amount.
Then, if you find that you don't much care for it, no real loss; you simply drink it until you have finished the coffee.
However, if you discover that you love it - and it is (or was) a small batch product which has sold out and is not - by definition - widely available - yes, I do sympathise. Been there, done that....
I would go for another Klean Kanteen. Love their stuff.
Not up to date to their whole lines of things at the moment though.
Some of my old KK various bottles are sure dented, but excellent quality still. Not any of my insulated ones though, but if the capacity is gone buy one of that new cafe cap model. I have one of those. Mostly used for tea on nature hikes. Don’t often bring espresso with me on hikes, as I want that as fresh as possible.
Still enjoying the black honey processed coffee from Thailand, served with organic hot milk and a little organic double cream.
this was a small purchase......4 oz or 120 G as it may be
Since COVID I've mostly been buying single origin coffees from various places, but this was a blend, and one without details as to what beans were being blended....and a dark roast too.....all I knew was that they were all grown in various coffee zones of Hawaii
a friend had recommended it, she only makes coffee using a Japanese siphon method and knows everything, she said "you're an idiot if you don't try some of this"....and of course she was right....It's always nice to have friends who are always right about stuff
Perhaps your friend might know a bit more about this blend of coffee?
However, it seems to me as though she is a person to approach for further recommendations.
And agreed, it is always nice to have friends who know about stuff, are happy to share what they know, and are always right about stuff.
Morning coffee - Thai black honey process coffee - (served with organic hot milk and organic double cream) being sipped, savoured and sampled, as I write.
Actually, earlier today, one of the coffee roasters I purchase from sent me an email, offering me an early "option" on two new limited recent releases (one was a Geisha from EL Salvador - I have learned that I don't much care for Geisha, I find it underwhelming, - and have always found it disappointing and underwhelming - though some people do rave about it), the other a limited production honey processed coffee from El Salvador.
Anyway, I wrote back requesting details, and a most engaging, enjoyable and quite delightful exchange (about coffee) ensued. A lovely way to pass some time over an afternoon.
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did you end up putting in an order for the Honey processed from El Salvador?
You read my mind.
Decisions, decisions.
I am still debating it, as they also (currently) stock my very favourite (natural process, Bourbon) coffee from El Salvador, and still also have a small quantity (I had written to praise this coffee) of the Thai black honey processed coffee I am currently drinking, which I like.
This is another matter which I am currently mulling over, as I wonder whether I should buy a second bag before shrinking stocks finally vanish, as, once it sells out, it will not appear again until this time next year.
I think I'd be buying a second bag of the Thai coffee if I were facing your choice.......you like it quite a bit, so given that it's not going to be available for another year.
Oh wait, maybe I'd also buy a smaller quantity each of the two El Salvador coffees.....hmmm, it's still winter and having a decent stock of good coffee always helps when it's bad outside.
My thoughts exactly.
Two (different) coffees from El Salvador, or another bag of the Thai coffee, and the remaining one from El Salvador?
Then, that begs the inevitable question of which of the two coffees from El Salvador I should select, or choose.
what a dilemma!
I suspect I'd get a bag each of the Thai and the honey processed El Salvador coffees.....who knows when you'll have another so convenient opportunity to try the honey processed El Salvador
Yes, it is a dilemma, isn't it?
Yes, I'm tempted, I must admit. Seriously tempted.
And the "honey processed" coffee is not just a limited release, but one that is marketed as a "competition" coffee (one where normally excellent standards have been elevated further, where meticulous levels of selection - hand picked, and hand selected etc - and production have been put into effect, for this is a coffee that the grower enters for cupping competitions, a number of whch he has won ; this was one of the topics of discussion during a series of messages which I exchanged yesterday with the buyer, who had been asked to answer my queries, and who furnished me with his own email address, having been tagged during the initial exchange).
However, the "natural" coffee from El Salvador is one that I know (and remember) as one of my personal favourites.
I may well end up buying all three......
And I think that this may be a good time to replenish my V60 filter papers, also.
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I checked the details and realised that I had written "celebration" coffee (my mistake, mea culpa, now corrected) when it should have read "competition" coffee.
Anyway, as the buyer explained to me yesterday, this particular "honey" coffee has been grown on a special lot (and treated with extraordinary care, and meticulous attention - "In terms of taste the Competition lots have more focus and clarity than you might find in the more "normal" lots...it's like a magnifying glass has been put on the coffee," the buyer wrote to me yesterday) with a view to entering it into coffee cupping competitions (I know from previous communications that this grower - the same grower who has produced the "natural" coffee I also have my eye on - has won quite a few coffee cupping competitions over the years).
I realise, of course, that all I am doing (both here, online, and in the murky depths of my mind) is trying to persuade myself (or supply a justification to myself) so that I can justify the purchase of all three coffees.
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