I know I'd enjoy After Eight even more if it was less minty.
But the idea that there could be a coffee out there that's mostly chocolaty but with minty hints isn't that far fetched to my mind. I haven't encountered one yet, have you?



OK, if you haven't, maybe you came across a minty coffee that we can blend with a chocolaty one?

It's unlikely to happen in a single roast of a single coffee. I have gotten "almost minty" green flavors when I under-dried a roast of Rwandan coffees to leave just a hint of green grass and chlorine flavors at a light roast. Chocolate flavors come out best in medium to medium dark roasts with highish environmental temperatures. The two roast profiles are mutually exclusive.

A blend of two coffees could do it; but my guess is that while it might remind you of chocolate and mint, it would probably taste lousy.

Correcting my post...

It was ONE El Salvador Pacamara.. Idk why I thought it was two. It was the La Montanita Estate Pac. Which SweetMarias is out of. I took it a tad darker then SM suggested, I stopped the roast at the first 2C I heard. But there was a piney flavor to the end of the cup... Even more so when it cooled down. Thats the closest Ive tasted to "Minty" in a coffee.