Dark Roast Colombian

With the new Mrs Tea arrived from eBay, my toastmaster coffee grinder in hand and a bag of dark roast colombian beans, I can continue my experiment. I brewed myself a cup of dark roast Colombian, my second official cup, as yesterday's cup, a makeshift brew with my carafe-less Mrs Tea and a large coffee cup, served only one function and that was to make my caffeine headache go away. Now I can truly enjoy my beans.

I chose the dark roast, as opposed to the supremo, because I like a bolder cup. The Colombian beans did not dissapoint me as my coffee was extremely flavorful. As to Mother's advice, since she delights in my journey into sophicate trancendence, I took a sip of the coffee black first, before quickly adding my flavored creamer (I really need to get rid of that crutch).

Colombia is rich and flavorful. It also tastes like coffee. Now, Colombian is the bean of choice for whole-sale blends. This is what you will find in your Folger's and Maxwell house coffee and at your local Denny's. I can taste the similarities, except my fresh-ground beans don't have the nasty bitterness that these swill coffees have. The flavor is a smokey flavor that floats up the palate and reminds me of tobacco smoke. It has a full body, which is pleasant to my tastes, and markedly different than the Mocha Java, which contained the lighter east African coffee (although coffee from the island of Java is supposed to be very bold). It is complex, with a smokey first taste, to a dry after taste on the back of your tongue. It's very coffee.

I think I prefere the Mocha Java.