Hungry T's Eating Journal

Tuesday, Jan 10 - Coffee Quest 1:3

Coffee No. 1 - Honduras Finca el Puente$15.75/lb

OK. Still trying to get some notes on this coffee...

The beans from Finca el Puente have been lightly roasted by Stumptown, and are pretty dry, not much oil. I like that. Oily beans make a mess of my grinder. Oils develop as beans are roasted. Darker roasts tend to be oily, lighter roasts not so much. From what I have read, lighter roasts (less oil) tend to have a more distinct, acidic taste (I'm going to call it focused) while darker roasts (more oily) tend to be bittersweet. Oils contain a lot of flavor, and are volatile (hence the recommendation to keep beans in an airtight container).

I find it interesting that, like coffee, I also like wines that are more acidic, distinct and focused.

The photo (not mine) is of a ripening coffee branch. All berries on a branch do not ripen uniformly. Green = underripe, red = ripe, black = overripe. Good growers will go through and harvest the same branch several times to get only the ripe beans (again, there is a direct correlation with wine, were vineyard workers will make several passes through rows of vines to harvest only clusters that are optimally ripe).

posted by Hungry T @ 7:32 AM