80	Allegro Coffee Roasters Boulder, Colorado Celebration Caffe Roast: Very-Dark Review Date: December 1998 Origin: Various Price: NA

Blind Assessment: Another holiday coffee distinguished by a dark-roasted, pungent heart. The pungency dominates, but reads as rich and resilient, and is complicated by an unusual taste tickle. I want to call it cedar, but a publicist might call it spice. It's a pleasant holiday-themed sensation.

Notes: No carbon and lots of sweetness here, smoothing and rounding the dark-roast pungency. A pleasing smokiness turns sweet and ambiguously chocolate in the aftertaste. Consists of all peaberry beans from the 1998 crop year. Peaberries occur when the coffee fruit produces a single oval bean rather than two beans with matching flat sides. Peaberries typically display slightly different cup characteristics from normal bea

Who Should Drink It: The holiday factor:An agreeable, if subdued, after-dinner coffee that should set up nicely next to heavy desserts.

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