The beans smell peppery. The flavor of the beans before brewing is mild with a crisp teture. These are the beans to use for chocolate covered coffee beans, coffee bean brittle, or anything that you are going to want coffee beans as a textural ingredient.

The flavor is bright without out being too acidic. Very smooth. This is a great morning coffee. Cream and sugar bring out butterscotch and vanilla flavors, but black the coffee is mild and slightly nutty.

If this coffee was a vacation it would be a small lake cabin: Relaxing, satisfying, and fresh.

I have a special place in my heart for indy companies, start ups, and artisans. I think that the corporate boom in midcentury 1900 lowered the quality of living for everyone as items became affordable but lacking in quality. Walmart is a great example. You can save money but you end up with pure- D- crap. Outsourcing to other countries irritates me.  So, when I have the opportunity to support local companies, small companies, American companies I do so.

I look forward to trying more of Weekly Roast’s coffees.

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Boca Java Tropical Kiss has an intense coconut flavor that fades out into lingering Belgian chocolate euphoria.  Usually with black coffee the flavor is not apparant.  This is not true with the Tropical Kiss.  The flavor is a bit more adult, a bit less sweet, maybe somewhat more subtle but it is there in the black coffee.  Add a few tablespoons of cream and sugar and you are back to drinking an Almond Joy bar.

This is a great afternoon coffee with a light snack of carrot cake, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, or coconut macaroons.  It is not  rich enough to be an after dinner coffee, in my opinion.  Not enough richness in the mouth…but as an afternoon pick me up? Perfect.

Give it a try, and let me know what you think.

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Apparently they are serious.  Microbrewed beer is an up and coming artisan trend and apparently beer tastings are on the increase.  You take a sip, you swish and spit..and then turn to your companion and say sagely, “sparkling and effervescent, I detect chocolate notes with a nutty finish”.

If you always say that I think you are o.k.  It is a code or something.

Anyway, so I was reading along and trying not to work when I read this article about coffee flavored beer.  I knew you would want to know.

You realize that coffee flavored beer is the product of the 70’s drug culture growing up, making money, and retiring.  Yes..from the same people that brought you brownies laced with marijuana we have…coffee flavored beer…at your local grocers now.

We always were a lazy bunch…brownies were created so that you could get high and vanquish the munchies at the same time.  Now you can get plastered and buzzed all at once…

I could say more but…why?

Read it.  Come to your own conclusions.  Make humorous comments.  I mean, that IS what we are all about here at Kettle and Cup, isnt it?

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