Tasting Archives

Tasting Square Mile Coffees

by deCadmus | Oct 12, 2008 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews, Featured

Let’s face it. Right now the folks at Square Mile — Stephen Morrissey, James Hoffmann and Annette Moldvaer1 — could phone it in. They could source dubious coffees, call them edgy, describe them cryptically while lavishing them with praise… and...

Stumptown’s Guatemala El Injerto Reserva

by deCadmus | Jul 30, 2008 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews

You should know something about coffee people… we’re *constantly* tasting coffee: our own, the stuff from the guy across the street, and across the country. Oh sure, part of it’s about keeping tabs on what other folks are doing — but...

Barista: Is This the Death of the Espresso Blend?

by deCadmus | Oct 28, 2007 | Coffee

Stephen Leighton (coffee guy, blogger at Hasbean, one of the more permanent fixtures on Bloggle’s list of outbound links) has a featured article in the most recent issue of Barista magazine in which he wonders aloud, “Is this the death of the espresso...

Green Mountain’s Gombe Reserve Gets Tasted

by deCadmus | Jun 27, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Reviews

Folks from all over are commenting on Green Mountain’s Gombe Reserve, a coffee offered in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute. My own notes were from a pre-production roast and — honestly — were at least as much about the process of producing...

Waxing Nostalgic: The FreshRoast Coffee Roaster

by deCadmus | May 16, 2007 | Coffee, Coffee Roasting

All this talk of home-roasters and roasting in one’s very own kitchen has got me waxing nostalgic. And so I dug around the roasting bench in the garage and excavated my very first coffee roaster — the FreshRoast — and after a bit of dusting and...

Accounting for Taste: A Model Major Article

by deCadmus | May 10, 2007 | Coffee

The current issue of Roast Magazine features an informative and very well acquainted guide to experiencing the flavors and aromas of coffee, covering matters anatomical, physiological and — for good measure — psychological, too: “Say youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re...