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A tasting note

Shine, Kenya, shine

Kenyan coffee gets a well deserved stint in the spotlight in Ritual Roaster’s Kenya Karindundu

12 June 2009 | Comments |

Second chances with Ritual's Sumatra Sidikalang

Tasting notes on the Sumatra Sidikikalang from Ritual Roasters in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood.

29 May 2009 | Comments |

There's more than one way to roast a Wondo

Looking for “There’s more than one way to roast a Wondo”? It’s now on Daniel of Arabica, my coffee-focused blog.

2 March 2009 | Comments |

Four Barrel's Colombia Los Idolos

Looking for “Four Barrel’s Colombia Los Idolos”? It’s now on Daniel of Arabica, my coffee-focused blog.

12 February 2009 | Comments |

What I’m Drinking Now: The Four Barrel Memory Test Edition
I have three bags of beans awaiting review. Backed up, their flavors and aromas slowly fading from my palette, they await their turn in the spotlight here at danmarkham.net. in this post, I intend to take care of them all at one fell swoop. My other life [...]

22 November 2008 | Comments |

WIDN: Niyarita

Honestly. Before I picked up this bag, I truly meant to go somewhere else. After all, it seems all anyone ever reads here – at least where it concerns coffee – is “Blue Bottle, Blue Bottle, Blue Bottle“. Broken record. So Sorry.
Actually, I intended to make my way over to the new kid in town [...]

31 October 2008 | Comments |

Wallenford Estate JBM

Wallenford Estate JBM (on flickr)
What I’m Drinking Now: Blue Bottle’s Wallenford Estate, Jamaica Blue Mountain.
How can a coffee be so carmelly sweet and rich, so smooth, so mellow with one of the most pleasurably lingering finishes I have yet experienced? Could it be because it cost me $21 for a half pound?
Not that price correlates [...]

10 October 2008 | Comments |

What I Was Drinking Then: Panama Boquete

Panama Boquete, Finca Berlina from Ritual
What I’m drinking now: What I was drinking then (yes, this baby is long gone now, french pressed into oblivion): Panama Boquete, Finca Berlina
I have a friend who nailed it: “savory”. That’s opposed to sweet. I say “brothy”. Does this sound like the description of a coffee you might want [...]

7 October 2008 | Comments |

Bella Donovan

Bella Donovan
What I’m drinking now: Bella Donovan.
From Blue Bottle, natch. “A classic moka-java blend”, indeed: smooth like one, floral/earthy like one. A classic.

19 September 2008 | Comments |

Blue Bottle's Purosa PNG

Blue Bottle’s Purosa PNG
What I’m drinking now. This is one of my favorite coffees. Ever.
Of all the elegant, intensly flavorful beans Blue Bottle offers, I find the Purosa PNG to be the most elegant, most flavorful of them all. Sweet, earthy, full bodied, so well balanced it could pass as a master blender’s crowning achievement. [...]

8 September 2008 | Comments |

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