Here is Sweet Marias score card for this coffee. I really like this coffee. It has a great aroma and a bold but smooth taste. I could drink it every day.
Here is Sweet Marias score card for this coffee. This coffee has a very bold taste. I don’t know if this is from the acidity level or from my lack of cupping practice or my over roasting of this batch. I do like the bold taste but like the Brazilian coffee I’m also drinking this week I wouldn’t drink it every day. It does have great aroma.
Here is Sweet Marias score card for this coffee. It has a heavier taste than other coffees I’ve tasted. You can definite taste the chocolaty taste the reviewer describes. This is the kind of coffee that I would make on the weekends but probably not on a daily basis. Its comparable to drinking a porter beer. Its very good, though and I give it high marks.
Here is a little preface to my coffee tastings. I buy all my green coffee from Sweet Marias. I will be using their cupping chart as a comparison for all of my results. You can see all there cupping reviews here. I typically roast my coffee to a full city roast which is pretty dark. If you are unsure of what the term full city roast is, you can go here to see the different degrees of roasting. It really takes some practice with the roaster to avoid over or under roasting a bean. Anyways, on to my first coffee review.
Here is Sweet Marias score card for this coffee. I agree with all of the reviewers statements. It is a very smooth, good tasting coffee. I could easily drink this every day.
I’m taking advantage of my Google account with 10 gig of space by uploading my videos to here:
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I hadn’t posted any coffee tasting information yet because I need to write down the names of the coffee I have been tasting. I don’t want you the wrong information. I will have some tastings up tomorrow.
As you can tell, I like to try beers with weird names. This beer is very smooth and tasty but has a pretty high alcohol content and its heavy so you might want to limit yourself to one of these. If you like chocolatey, malty beer then you’ll love this porter. I still like Anchor Steams porter better but this one is very good also. I’m looking forward to colder weather so I can try more porters. I would try to avoid heavier beers when the temperature is above 80 degrees outside. When I ordered this beer I didn’t realize it was a porter(based on Taco Mac’s menu) so I was a little surprised when I got it. It was a pleasant surprise, though.
Last weekend we decided to see if the special Enfamil formula we were using was really making a difference so we moved William back to the previous formula he was on. Well that was a big mistake. He cried for basically nine hours straight due to gas problems. At nine in the evening we decided that it had to be the formula that was making him fussy so I ran to the store and got back in time for his last feeding with the old formla. It took a day for him to get back to being less fussy but he was much better. We decided that the formula is definitely worth the price.
As you know(or don’t know) I’ve been into coffee for a while. I started off drinking Maxwell House and Folgers in a basic drip coffee maker and then ventured into making espresso by buying an espresso machine. I then jumped even deeper into the coffee addiction by buying a coffee roaster and buying the green beans and roasting them. Well fast forward to the week William was born. I had just bought 10 lbs of green bean to roast because I knew that first couple of months require caffeine. I had roasted about a pound and a half coffee and had left the roaster out on my work bench over night to cool. Well that evening we had some bad storms and I heard some dog activity in the garage but I didn’t think much of it because they are always nervous when there is thunder and lightning. The next morning I went into the garage to open the dog door to let the dogs out and put the coffee roaster away. It wasn’t a pretty site. It was not as bad as the night Max knocked over 5 gallons of gas in the garage but it was close. Well on the floor lay my coffee roaster in a bunch of pieces. I guess one of the dogs freaked out and tried to jump up on the work bench.
Well for the last month and a half I have been drinking the coffee Melanie likes and I have learned why I like having my freshly roasted coffee. Last week was my birthday and after some nice gifts from my parents and others, I purchased another coffee roaster(the IRoast 2) and yesterday I roasted a half a pound of coffee and this morning I once again enjoyed that fresh cup of coffee. I really love coffee.
From now on I’m going to post up my coffee tastings. This week I will trying some Rwandan coffee and some Nicaraguan coffee. This morning I already tried the Rwandan and it was good. After a few more cups I’ll post up my opinions.
Anyway, Its nice to be roasting again.
I know it sounds like I’m an alcoholic posting one entry about wine and the next about a beer but I assure you that this is purely for information purpose only. Last year we started going to Taco Mac and if you have been to one of these places you know its mainly a wing and beer place but in Roswell its surprisingly geared towards families. Well, anyway, they have a program called the passport where you get t-shirts and mugs if you drink a certain number of beer. Well I think it takes 15 beers to get a t-shirt and I still haven’t made it to the t-shirt yet after one year but I do try to venture out and try different beers. This week I tried Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar. It’s a brown ale that I highly recommend. It has the sweetness of a nut brown ale and the taste of a porter but its not as heavy as a porter or a stout beer. Anyway, if you have an opportunity to try this beer, I would recommend it. From now on I’m going to try to start posting up my beer tasting since my goal is try a new beer every time I go there. The posts may not be weekly or bi-weekly but I’ll try to post up when I have a good tasting brew.
