Millstone Organic Mayan Black Onyx Coffee

If you are like me it isnt always easy to find good coffee, especially organic coffee, locally and you forget to order it until you are out. At that point, in desperation you are frantically searching the grocery store aisles like a junkie lookie for his next fix; willing to take lower quality but hoping you dont have to.

Millstone Coffee is owned by Smuckers. I say that only because I much prefer independent roasters, local if possible. However, it is good to know where to go in a pinch, right? Millstone is pretty decent coffee for what it is. I have gotten it before and enjoyed it the way you enjoy being bored on a summer day. Pleasant but you wish you had something more exciting.

In other words…I was not expecting to blog about Millstone Organic Mayan Black Onyx.

First of all, the word “organic” got me. I like that word. I like it even more when it applies to something I am going to ingest. And then, the whole Mayan Black Onyx thing. It captured my imagination, it promised me of adventure and intrigue, romance in exotic places…yes, I have no real life.

Anyway. I like this coffee. Alot. I like it better than most of Starbucks coffees, other than some of their $16 a pound seasonals. It is as dark and smoky as the back corner table in  a seedy tavern. It is smooth with a faint tobacco flavor followed by cherry. It reminds me of my uncle’s pipe tobacco in a way.

When you add cream and sugar the coffee changes its character quite a bit and exudes honey, almond and vanilla notes.

Either this is the most two faced coffee ever…or the most flexible.   Great morning coffee to go with a pancake-egg-bacon type breakfast as you gaze at the fog lifting from over the lake.

So if you run out of your favorite indy blend…never fear. You can pick this up at any grocers that carries Millstone.

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