Thanks Jason - there seem to be a few Bay Area locals on the board, we should get together some weekend!

JimWright wrote:Thanks Jason - there seem to be a few Bay Area locals on the board, we should get together some weekend!

Hey, I noticed you're into motorcycles to, I'm not, but my father is in a local Japanese Motorcycle club, they have rides up to Mt. Hamilton annually. Sound familiar?

I'm still going through 408, I don't have any sweetness on hand to compare to, but I think perhaps the sweetness is a little more prominent because it's a little smoother than sweetness overall, and since it's not a blend, the flavors that are there really stand on their own. Sometimes a blend adds another bean to give it more bottom end bittersweet, etc and that takes away from tasting the sweetness that a SO can have.

Not familiar, but there are actually quite a number of biker clubs. I'll ride my Triumph down to Barefoot or Verve for our hopefully-forthcoming Bay Area Coffee Geekery meetup.

Okay, I've had a little more time to work with Sweetness and 408. I actually tried them back to back I bought 2 bags of 408 and 2 bags of Sweetness. I went between the two and I've found 408 to much sweeter. I'm still working through some sweetness, so I'm going to try to see if I can push Sweetness to be sweeter. Sweetness does seem to have that last sip that is sweeter than 408's last sips in a 1.75 ounce espresso. But I'm inclined to think that 408 is sweeter than sweetness. But 408 is a microlot that's probably going to be here and gone and who knows what next harvest is like, so sweetness might keep it's position long term.