Second time is a charm.

Last year's crop was a "super-Ethiopian" with the added benefit of chocolate rather than green tea roast flavors. Coffee review gave it 96, a slightly ECX tinged score, while Bob Yellin scored it at 93. In any case, it was one of the best coffees I had all last year.

The Green Coffee Coop is taking a survey for orders of this year's crop. They will buy and offer it if it lives up to its preshipment score, which as high as last years. Anticipated cost is $15 per pound plus shipping.

If you are interested, please post your order amount on their forum, joining the coop (it's free) if you haven't already done so.

rama wrote:exclusively for espresso?

You can't afford it brewed

rama wrote:Does the Nekisse have the typical DP profile, or is it less... rustic?

At one of the Chicago get togethers, I served the Nekisse brewed, side by side with the Esmeralda Mario Carnaval lot. My intent was to show that the Esmeralda was just as fruited as the Nekisse, but more sophisticated and better processed.

That did not pan out. The Nekisse was rustic, with tinges of alcoholic sweet ferment and overripe fruit. But it was huge, like some old school Barolo or Priorat, and the ferment as all good, with no trace of funk. The Mario Carneval was purer and completely flawless, but pale and scrawny in comparison. Of the eight people there, six preferred the Nekisse and two thought they tied. And that was after my singing the praises of Panamanian coffee processing and the Esmeralda as the world's most famous, expensive and perhaps best coffee; while I called the Nekisse a standard high end Sidamo (it had just come in, and the tasting was my first roast).

George Howell would still hate it; but I can't think of many other peple who would have a problem with it.

Top Kirinyagas are austere monsters. The Nekisse won't shoulder them aside, but it will be more of a crowd pleaser.