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…
Revised on November 14, 2019Coffee reviews
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”…
Revised on August 11, 2021Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #12. A review in our conservation organization coffee series.
Revised on November 24, 2020Caffe 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…
Revised on July 8, 2021Three Ethiopian selections from Novo Coffee.
Revised on November 23, 2020Plainspoken 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…
Revised on November 24, 2020Plainspoken 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…
Revised on January 7, 2022Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #8. I have been interested in trying coffees from Finca Hartmann since I traveled to Panama a couple of years ago. Finca Hartmann is in the Chiriqui highlands in…
Revised on December 21, 2018This coffee, obtained from the poop of an Asian mammal, was nearly undrinkable. On a postive note, you won’t find another fecal product as attractively gift-boxed as kopi luwak from Animal Coffee.
Revised on March 4, 2021Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #7. Paradise Roasters Calama Marka Bolivia Cup of Excellence. I had not actually intended on reviewing this coffee, but once a couple of us tasted it, we were so…
Revised on October 30, 2020Short reviews of several Timor coffees. These are all Fair Trade, organic, and grown in shade.
Revised on November 14, 2019Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #6. Counter Culture’s Sanctuary Shade Grown Coffees.
Revised on November 14, 2019Plainspoken Coffee. A Coffee Review for Ordinary People by Ordinary People, #5. As promised in my previous backgrounder, a review of Hacienda la Esmeralda from Intelligentsia. The beans: This was quite a light roast, just at city, medium brown with…
Revised on April 23, 2021Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Ambessa — floral, citrus, sweet and honey-like.
Revised on April 23, 2021I will be writing in the future about the Cup of Excellence and the Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality award programs for specialty coffees, and the role they can play in bringing attention to small farms, roaster relationships, and quality…
Revised on January 7, 2022