Comments on: PT’s Coffee: Kenya AA Kieni Auction Lot

By: Coffee Notes from All Over | Bloggle

Coffee Notes from All Over | Bloggle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:21:10 +0000

[...] any Coffee Klatch offerings — at all! I think I need to fix that — I tasted some of PT’s Kenya AA Kieni Auction Lot last year and found it pretty darn wonderful. It looks like they’ve got a stable full of [...]

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:44:57 +0000

I’d call it a light / medium roast. No surface oils at all.

As to the milky aromas… I think there’s something to what you say. I might wildly speculate that, as Kenyan coffees are loaded with sweet acids, there may be something to the nose that recalls lactic acids while coffee is still in bean form, which — when ground — is overwhelmed by all sorts of other esters and aldehydes.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:41:49 +0000

How would you describe the roast coloration…?

The grape fruit (bitter/acetic?) description scares me a bit but I might give it a shake. I get a milky aroma on unground beans of top grade kenya and sometimes other africans. Thoughts?

By: Specialty Coffee and Gourmet Coffee

Specialty Coffee and Gourmet Coffee — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:42:05 +0000

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