Favorite Espressos 2015 - Page 4
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Espresso #3 is Compass Coffee Roasting's Delirium espresso blend. This is a mélange roast, meaning coffees are individually roasted, sometimes to different roast levels, to bring out their best flavors before being blended together. Compass Coffee is a growing success story in southern Washington, which is just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. They're about to open a third café and repeated as last year's winner of The Colombian's reader's poll for best coffee in Clark County.
Mike McGinnis is the "head bean" at Compass. Recently he wrote,
Mike has a spiced muscovato signature drink that's the best combination of coffee and milk I've tasted. It's perfect in wintry weather, or anytime, really. He combines Billington's natural unrefined muscovado sugar with Vietnamese cinnamon, Jamaican allspice and a touch of cayenne, and blends these into a cappuccino. I invite you to combine these ingredients to your taste.
Mike McGinnis is the "head bean" at Compass. Recently he wrote,
Mike's roastery is a short drive from where I live, and one of my favorite pasttimes is to drop by and talk coffee over the classic rock 'n roll that's always playing. He's still as enthusiastic about his coffee as any hobbyist on these boards. Coffee isn't his only hobby. He's a competition barbecuer too.Compass Coffee wrote:I joined this forum 2 years before turning coffee professional. Involvement here was a big part of developing the skills as barista to have the confidence (and ignorance!) to purchase an existing cafe and at the same time transition from advanced profile controlled home roasting over 5 years to larger (still small by commercial standards) batch commercial roasting. Staying involved here on Home-Barista is simply part of who I was, am, and will always be with feet firmly in both camps.
Mike has a spiced muscovato signature drink that's the best combination of coffee and milk I've tasted. It's perfect in wintry weather, or anytime, really. He combines Billington's natural unrefined muscovado sugar with Vietnamese cinnamon, Jamaican allspice and a touch of cayenne, and blends these into a cappuccino. I invite you to combine these ingredients to your taste.
Gary
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What I WOULD do for a good cup of coffee!
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What I WOULD do for a good cup of coffee!
- TomC
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Winter 2015 HB Espresso Review
It's been a while since we've done our last review. I have a roaster lined up and will announce it shortly. Folks seemed to like the "follow along" format where the Team HB are blind to the roaster, but participants are free to order some and judge right along with us on their gear. Stay tuned here for the hidden announcement. The review period will likely commence in the next 3 weeks give or take.
Happy Holidays from Team HB
It's been a while since we've done our last review. I have a roaster lined up and will announce it shortly. Folks seemed to like the "follow along" format where the Team HB are blind to the roaster, but participants are free to order some and judge right along with us on their gear. Stay tuned here for the hidden announcement. The review period will likely commence in the next 3 weeks give or take.
Happy Holidays from Team HB
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The coffee chosen for this review is a wonderful coffee that I've had before and roasted myself as well, so I can already say that it's a good choice. Although I've only profiled it for drip, not espresso. All further details will be left in the spoiler for the rest of the Team HB members to be blinded in the review process. The extraction parameters are in the link as well. Pretty much anything non-ristretto is good. I'll share the extraction suggestions with the rest of the team.
If folks want, they can also put their tasting notes behind spoiler tags, all you have to do is put [---spoiler---] before and [/--- spoiler---] after your summary, minus the dashes of course.
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If folks want, they can also put their tasting notes behind spoiler tags, all you have to do is put [---spoiler---] before and [/--- spoiler---] after your summary, minus the dashes of course.
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The HB audience will be interested in the following bit of information about this coffee and its roaster. (Team HB no peeking)
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Edit : Update to mention the review noted above for non-Team HB eyes. This provides an excellent opportunity for tasters to gauge their palate skills against a industry recognized professional on the same exact coffee. Take careful notes first, then compare to the review comments in the spoiler. Leave room for subjectivity, but have fun nonetheless.
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I've had some of Dustins coffee and it's fantastic! On another level than anything I produce. But, doesn't coffee review overinflate their scores?
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Just taking a peek and everything seems to be 93 and above.
Also when are we supposed to give reviews when we get the coffee?? I ordered some just now.
Also when are we supposed to give reviews when we get the coffee?? I ordered some just now.
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Thought I had remembered this discussion a while back..Even Dustin doesn't agree with CR's scoring. That being said, his coffee is delicious as frick regardless of CR scoring.
Greens AlertAgreed that coffee review WAY over scores things. Ive literally had the same coffee(literally the same bag) they scored a 94, that I would of scored an 88 or 87. Not to say that Kenya isnt great, it probably is.
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