by deCadmus | Feb 20, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:4.5/5] An extraordinary, and extraordinarily fruited, dry process Ethiopian Sidamo. I’ll warn you right up front that this is one of those coffees that’s simply unavailable at any price. I’ll tell you why in a moment or two, but...
by deCadmus | Feb 15, 2007 | Arts & Letters, Coffee
Imagine, if you will, an afternoon in the Garden of Eden. You’re kicked back on a La-Z-Boy-shaped hunk of moss trying to collect your thoughts after a hard day’s work naming animals. There are so many, after all, and having spent the better part of a day...
by deCadmus | Jul 23, 2006 | Coffee
From two years ago today in Bloggle’s wayback archive… For her morning cup, herself brewed some of Green Mountain’s Wild Mountain Blueberry, which as flavored coffees go, doesn’t suck. This is not faint praise, but my own inner struggle with...
by deCadmus | Jul 21, 2006 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:4/5] “You’ve already won me over-in spite of me. So don’t be alarmed if I fall head over feet. And don’t be surprised if I love you for all that you are. I couldn’t help it — it’s all your fault.” —...
by deCadmus | Jun 6, 2005 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews
Rating: [rating:4.5/5] Over the course of the last week I’ve roasted several batches of new coffees from my favorite purveyor of green coffees, Sweet Marias. The first on my tasting list is a brilliant Ethiopian Yirgacheffe under the MAO mark (lot 538). I...
by deCadmus | Jun 25, 2004 | Coffee
Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Ethiopia — or maybe Abyssinia, it was a very long time ago, after all — there lived a young goatherd named Kaldi. By all accounts [and there are many, as the story has been retold many, many times] Kaldi was a...