Kohana Hawaiian Prime is not a medium roast. The bag says medium roast but it isn’t. At all. Nope.
Hawaiian Prime is smooth and mellow. It has a full bodied fruity flavor reminiscent of a good red wine…it teases you with a hint of cloves and finishes with hazelnut. I am still sitting here sipping in disbelief that it is tagged medium roast. It almost hurts me to say it but this the type of sultry coffee I love…so it can’t be a medium roast.

The beans are tiny. I have never seen beans that were that small. In this case great …read more

I just read an article this evening about a small Utah Creamery that is creating a cheddar cheese with a coffee rind.
No, not grind…RIND.
Doesn’t that sound amazing?

…But it is still a very good coffee. Sulawesi Toraja is an Indonesian coffee bean with an unusual brightness for a coffee from that region.  It isn’t especially fragrant when you open the bag…In fact I was sort of disappointed because I like when that good coffee aroma fills the kitchen.

I have heard everywhere that burr ground coffee is so much better than blade ground that I decided to take a deep breath and get a burr grinder.  Actually it wasn’t that deep of a breath because I found it at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for a reasonable price.

You know the rest right?
Remember I told you about Kopi Luwak which is basically coffee that travels through the entire digestive system of a wild cat and then is ..uh excreted and cleaned and roasted…Hopefully cleaned well.
Then there was the Monkey spit coffee. A bean that a type of monkey spits out after he eats the berry. Yum!
(O.k..I am adding this note to say I have NOT posted about those coffees but I did write and article on them you can read, Unusual Coffees . I really thought I had posted here but I can’t find it.)
Now …read more

 
The first coffee I brewed when the care package from Green Mountain came in was the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe.   The Archer Farms Yirgacheffe I had tried last winter was a big favorite and i was delighted to see another version in the box.
This was a lighter roast than the Archer Farms, the beans were dryer and lighter in color.  The unmistakable aroma of citrus was there though.

 
I have been putting off this review. Honestly I have.  And I will tell you why.
I have been reading reviews all over the internet and they all seem to say the same thing. Exciting fruity notes.  Chocolate notes.  Notes of tobacco and wood.  Tastes of cherry, blueberry and spice…Exotic, complex.
Scroll back.
Last week Marc and I had to pick up a new flour canister at the restaurant supply house. O.k. I bet you want to know why I am heading off, 45 minutes away, to pick up a flour canister? Gosh, you are nosy. 

Have you had chocolate covered espresso beans?
Yeah, me too. Yummy.
I like to think of them as big people’s Raisinettes. They are not too hard to make, and as long as you start with a fantastic espresso bean, and add great chocolate, you are going to have an awesome end product.
Better than anything you have ever tasted. Really.