I tried the espresso roast. Only thing I ever bought from them. The taste was wretched. The entire flavor profile was citrus, the absolute worst tasting type of coffee. So many choices when it comes to flavors in coffee: Earthy, Smokey, Chocolatey, Floral, Caramel, but these idiots produced a product that was pure citrus. Absolutely disgusting. Gave the bag away.
"ixnay on the lemon-scray." i am not into descriptives like "wine, tea, citrus, bright, floral." i tried one of their dark roasts and it was just burnt. there are two coffees at freshroastedcoffee.com that suprisingly i really enjoyed that have citrus/berry respectively in the cupping notes: https://www.freshroastedcoffee.com/collections/single-origin-coffee/products/guatemala-huehuetenango-fto-coffee https://www.freshroastedcoffee.com/products/ethiopian-sidamo-fto-coffee?_pos=5&_psq=SIDAMO&_ss=e&_v=1.0 (go with 5lb bags for savings and free ship)
i don't want to do those everyday, but they can be a nice break from my usual sumatra, timor, dark mexican, etc they were nice. i am saddened that FRC doesn't carry the dark mexican chiapas anymore. it was perfection to my palate. and coffee prices are on the rise. i might ought to learn how to roast so that i can stockpile green beans.
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