So I forgot to write the blog post for last week’s cupping, but that’s okay because this week we cupped one of the coffees again and found some interesting results, so I get to share them with you here. So last week, we had 3 coffees. 2 from Dallis Coffee and 1 from Flat Black Coffee Co.

#1 Dallis Coffee’s Brazil Organic

• Dry: Chocolate, clove, black tea, nutty, sweet, citrus, vanilla
• Wet: red delicious apple, citrusy, fruit, sweet
• Break: caramel, chocolate, sweet
• Brightness: green apple, medium, pleasant
• Flavor: black tea, chocolate, spicy, chestnut, orange zest, peach
• Body: medium light, 2% milk
• Aftertaste: dry, chestnut, sweet on cool

#2 Dallis Coffee’s Sumatra Fair Trade Organic

• Dry: orange, hibiscus, milk chocolate, spicy, peppery, bright, citrus, sour/fermented.
• Wet: orange, eucalyptus, nutty, fermenty
• Break: medicinal, floral,fruity, orange
• Brightness: medium/grapefruit
• Flavor: brown sugar, wine, green pepper, grassy, spicy, fermented, grapefruit
• Body: juicy, light
• Aftertaste: sweet, pleasant, sour/tangy

#3 Flat Black’s Costa Rican La Minita Estate French Roast

• Dry: bitter chocolate, cherry, sweet chocolate, musty
• Wet: alkaline, tree bark, cherry
• Break: fruity, smoky, leather, sweetness
• Brightness: low-medium
• Flavor: bitterweet chocolate (x3), smoky, burnt chocolate, smoked almonds
• Body: heaviest
• Aftertaste: lingering bitter, woody, tangy then smoky

This week we had coffee from three different roasters: Dallis Coffee, Intelligentsia and Stumptown

#1 Dallis Coffee’s Sumatra Fair Trade Organic (same bag as last week)

• Dry: Plum, beer, chocolate, raisins, roasted red pepper, spicy chilis
• Wet/break: rose, bbq, dark chocolate, smoked paprika, cumin, musk, cantaloupe
• Brightness: unexpectedly bright
• Flavor: sour apple, cantaloupe, plum, chocolate, fermented, orange, nutty, sour, red pepper, cucumber, carrots
• Body: light-medium
• Aftertaste: chocolatey, sweet pleasant, milk chocolate, clean

#2 Intelligentsia’s Ethiopian Yirgacheffe

• Dry: macerated strawberries, berry pie, honey, sweet cinnamon, berries, anise (licorice)
• Wet/break: honey, black licorice, pie filling, pie spices, candy
• Brightness: high, pleasant
• Flavor: black tea, honey, strawberry, currant, chocolate, cashews, fennel, sweet, floral, jasmine tea
• Body: milky, full
• Aftertaste: sour, cinnamon, lingering cashews

#3 Ethiopia Mordecofe (no longer available online)

• Dry: grape soda, chocolate, blueberry muffin, brown sugar
• Wet/break: jasmine tea, blueberry, almond, cinnamon, clove, cherry, grapes
• Brightness: very high
• Flavor: grape soda, alcohol, very fruity, dried peanuts, fruit, berry, apples, settles to sweet
• Body: light
• Aftertaste: clean, lingering berry, dry back of mouth, orange and apples