Coffee reviews category archives
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May 31, 2009:
Coffee review: Doi Chaang Wild Civet Coffee
Doi Chaang Wild Civet coffee is produced from the scat of strictly wild civets eating only high quality, organic arabica beans in Thailand. For those who feel compelled or interested in having an animal processed coffee and are willing to pay for the rarity and novelty, this is it.
April 24, 2009:
Coffee review: Arbor Day blend
For Arbor Day, a review of the coffees available from the Arbor Day Foundation.
December 29, 2008:
Not-quite-coffee review: Finca Mauritania Cascara
Just to end the year on a unique note, we decided to try an interesting and unique coffee product, cascara. This is dried coffee cherry, and can be prepared as an infusion like tea. Something old is new again Although...
December 1, 2008:
Coffee review: BuyWell International Fair Trade Organic coffees
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #40. BuyWell is a relative new-comer to the sustainable coffee arena, established in Colorado Springs in fall 2007. They focus exclusively on certified organic, Fair Trade coffees. BuyWell purchases...
November 5, 2008:
Coffee review: Counter Culture Coffee Finca Nueva Armenia
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #39. We did a quick take on Counter Culture's Finca Nueva Armenia a couple of years ago, as it was used in their Sanctuary shade-grown coffee line. We liked...
August 21, 2008:
Coffee review: Caribou Colombia Timaná
Caribou's 100% Rainforest Alliance certified Colombian offering is a tasty, sustainable selection.
August 11, 2008:
Coffee review: Terroir Coffee El Descanso
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #37. As noted in the the post with background information on coffee growing in Colombia, finding a notably tasty, really sustainable coffee from Colombia is still not incredibly easy....
July 3, 2008:
Coffee review: Barrington Haitian Highlands Ferrace
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #36. In a previous post, I gave background information on coffee growing on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. We reviewed two selections from the Dominican Republic, and now were...
May 29, 2008:
Coffee review: Larry's Beans Organic Barahona
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #35. To follow up on the post on coffee growing in Hispaniola, here is our second review of a Dominican Republic coffee (the first was Café Alta Gracia). Here...
April 29, 2008:
Coffee review: Café Alta Gracia
In a previous post, I gave background information on coffee growing on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. We gave a some of these coffees a try. First, a selection from the Dominican Republic (DR). Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for...
February 7, 2008:
Coffee review: Doi Chaang Coffee
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #33. The vast majority of the coffee grown in Thailand is robusta, grown in the southern part of the country and commonly doused with chemicals. In the late 1970s,...
January 7, 2008:
Coffee review: Counter Culture Finca Mauritania Microlots
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #32. In our background post on El Salvador, one of the coffees we reviewed was Counter Culture's Finca Mauritania, from the slopes of the Ilamantepec (Santa Ana) volcano. The...
December 19, 2007:
Coffee review: Counter Culture Holiday Blend 2007
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #31. We don't review many blends here at C&C (yet), mostly because it is easier and clearer to provide background and information on single-origin coffees. But we were fascinated...
November 5, 2007:
Coffee Review: Brazil's Daterra Estates
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #30. Daterra Estate -- Brazil. Sampled from three roasters: Rowster Coffee, Terroir Coffee Company, and Sweetwater Organic Coffees. In a previous post, I discussed coffee growing in the cerrado...
October 18, 2007:
Starbucks Black Apron Costa Rica
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #29. Starbucks Black Apron Exclusive: Organic Lomas Al Rio (Costa Rica). This review is a tad out of the ordinary for two reasons. First, I don't buy coffee from...
October 6, 2007:
Coffee review: Paradise Roasters Panama Carmen Estate
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #28. It's taken too long to get around to reviewing coffee from one of the most well-known coffee farms in the world that is marketed as sustainable, Panama's Carmen...
September 17, 2007:
Coffee review: Caribou Coffee Roastmaster Reserve Panama Maunier
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #27. Caribou Coffee's latest Roastmaster Reserve is Panama Maunier, from Panama's Boquette region in Chirqui province. Caribou indicates this is an estate coffee, named for French flower grower and...
August 6, 2007:
Coffee review: Brown Coffee Co. Finca Vista Hermosa
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #26. I first read about Guatemala's Finca Vista Hermosa in Roast Magazine, in a series written by Edwin Martinez, Diary of a Grower. FVH is the Martinez family farm,...
July 18, 2007:
Coffee review: Papua New Guinea coffees
Recently, I posted a backgrounder on Papua New Guinea coffee. One of my favorite coffees is Allegro Coffee Roaster's PNG Sigri Estate, which is not reviewed here because the crop ran out and it was unavailable at my local Whole...
June 12, 2007:
Coffee review: Allegro Coffee Santa Adelaida
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #25. We enjoy reviewing coffees from El Salvador, a country which has lost over 90% of its native forest cover, with 80% of its remaining tree cover represented by...
May 29, 2007:
Coffee Review: Green Mountain Gombe Reserve
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #24. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Gombe Reserve. Recently I posted an overview of coffee from Tanzania, an east African country best known for their marketing of peaberry coffees. In...
May 15, 2007:
Coffee review: Higher Ground Roasters
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #23. Higher Ground is an Alabama roaster that carries only certified Fair Trade, certified organic, and shade grown coffee. Shade coffees are not labeled certified, although some do come...
April 27, 2007:
Coffee review: Coffee Labs Doghouse Blend
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #22. Coffee Labs Roasters Doghouse Blend, Peru and El Salvador. Coffee Labs Roasters is a cafe/roaster located in Tarrytown, NY (northwest of White Plains). Owners Mike Love and Alicia...
April 15, 2007:
Cerulean Warbler review update
Please see the update of the review of the Cerulean Warbler coffee in the original post. Rather than post a second review, I wanted to make sure anybody reading the first one with all the background information sees the updated...
March 27, 2007:
Coffee Review: Counter Culture Mesa de los Santos
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #21. Counter Culture Mesa de los Santos, Colombia. This coffee is certified by both Rainforest Alliance and Smithsonian -- rest assured your purchase supports biodiversity if it complies with...
March 25, 2007:
Coffee Review: Thanksgiving Coffee Co. Cerulean Warbler coffee
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #20. Thanksgiving Coffee Co. Cerulean Warbler Coffee. Update: We re-reviewed this coffee, and the results of the second tasting are below the first. Background: This coffee is being marketed...
March 17, 2007:
Coffee review: Whole Foods (Allegro) Finca El Jaguar
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #19. Finca El Jaguar is a family-run farm in Nicaragua's Jinotega province, 188 km north of the capital Managua. The farm is also a registered private reserve under the...
March 12, 2007:
Coffee review: Millstone's organic line
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #18. I introduced the Millstone (Procter & Gamble) organic line of coffees in a previous post. This is a review of four of the five of the coffees in...
February 17, 2007:
Coffee Review: Caribou Coffee Ecuador Changaimina
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #17. Coffee from Ecuador is something you don't see every day. In fact, I think I've seen more places offering coffee from the Galapagos Islands (which are Ecuadorian) than...
February 5, 2007:
Coffee Review: Whole Foods (Allegro) Honduras San Marcos
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #16. The two major natural foods markets, at least in our region, are Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. There are more TJ's close to me, but I've always been...
January 6, 2007:
Coffee Review reviews supermarket coffees
The latest at Coffee Review is a look at mainstream supermarket coffees. Reviewing prepackaged, pre-ground coffees is a departure for Kenneth Davids' site, which is the best source on the web for reviews of specialty coffees. Davids was honest, perhaps...
December 28, 2006:
Coffee review: National Wildlife Blend
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #15. A review in our conservation organization coffee series. National Wildlife Federation Blend The National Wildlife Federation, founded in 1938, is a very well-known conservation organization whose mission focuses...
December 20, 2006:
Coffee review: Wild Birds Unlimited Birder's Blend
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #14. A review in our conservation organization coffee series. Wild Birds Unlimited Birder's Blend. Certified Fair Trade and Certified Organic. Shade grown, as determined by roaster (see the review...
December 18, 2006:
Coffee review: Audubon coffee
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #13. Audubon Premium Shade Grown Coffees. A review in our conservation organization coffee series. The National Audubon Society promotes a small line of "habitat-friendly certified organic premium shade grown"...
December 14, 2006:
Coffee review: Songbird Coffee
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #12. A review in our conservation organization coffee series. American Birding Association Songbird Coffee The American Birding Association is a nearly 40-year-old group that caters specifically to recreational birders....
December 11, 2006:
Conservation organization coffees: Introduction
The way many consumers "get into" sustainable coffee is through special coffee clubs or promotions which are sponsored by conservation organizations. How good are these coffees? If they aren't substantially better than what people are used to drinking, they won't...
November 25, 2006:
Quick shot: Caffe Pronto Guatemalan Maya Ixil
Caffe Pronto Guatemalan Maya Ixil. I received this coffee from Caffe Pronto just before the holidays, so I did not have a chance to let the panel taste it, so I can't provide the usual review. But this coffee's sustainability...
November 20, 2006:
Coffee review: Novo Coffee's Ethiopians
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #11 Three Ethiopian selections from Novo Coffee. In my post about Starbucks Black Apron Ethiopia Gemadro Estate, I suggested Denver's Novo Coffee as a source for a great variety...
November 12, 2006:
Coffee review: Counter Culture Honduras El Puente "The Purple Princess"
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #10 Counter Culture Honduras El Puente - Marysabel Caballero. Counter Culture's Peter Giuliano calls this coffee the Purple Princess "because its perfume and silkiness seem feminine and regal, and...
November 1, 2006:
Coffee review: El Salvador coffees
Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #9. El Salvador is a small Central American country with a troubled past. It has been largely deforested, with coffee plantations providing most of the remaining "forested" areas in...
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