Reviews for Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters
Price: $17.50/12 ounces
Evaluated as espresso. Sweet-savory, intense, balanced. Spicy-toned flowers, tangerine zest, red berries, cedar, dark chocolate, roasted cashew in aroma and small cup. Syrupy but buoyant mouthfeel. Flowers, chocolate and citrus all carry into a resonant though slightly drying finish. Gently and sweetly citrusy in three parts milk, with a continued backgrounded chocolate and nut.
Richly sweet, high-toned. Maple syrup, orange zest, roasted cacao nib, peach, cedar in aroma and cup. Sweet-tart structure; satiny mouthfeel. The resonant finish has a throughline of roasted cacao nib, accompanied by notes of peach and maple syrup in the short and orange zest and cedar in the long.
Price: $19.00/12 ounces
Delicately sweet and balanced with a subtle hint of fermented fruit. Peach, sweet chocolate, sandalwood, honeysuckle, almond in aroma and cup. Gently and sweetly bright in structure; light yet satiny in mouthfeel. Quiet but resonantly long finish: peach, chocolate, almond.
Pungently and sweetly wood- and nut-toned. Fresh-cut cedar, baker’s chocolate, cashew, orange zest in aroma and cup. Round, backgrounded acidity; syrupy mouthfeel. Simple but sweet, resonant finish.
Delicate, fruit-forward. Dried raspberry, lilac, dark chocolate, peppermint, oak in aroma and cup. Rich-toned, juicy acidity; lightly satiny mouthfeel. The clean, lightly resonant finish leads with dark chocolate and lilac notes in the short, resolving with a re-emergence of a sweetly spicy peppermint in the long.
Price: $17.95/12 ounces
Delicately intricate, deeply sweet. Dried mulberry, jasmine, sandalwood, roasted cacao nib, lime zest in aroma and cup. Juicy, effervescent acidity; silky, levitating mouthfeel. The finish, crisply tart with sweet floral and cacao tones in the short, turns delicately resonant in the long with revived suggestions of mulberry and lime zest.
Price: $16.75/12 ounces
Crisply and sweetly pungent. Dried persimmon, juniper berry, lemon blossom, slightly salty chocolate, raw almond in aroma and cup. Brothy, sweet-tart acidity; creamy mouthfeel. The richly drying finish leads with cocoa-toned dried persimmon in the short, followed by a hint of nut and perhaps lemon-blossom in the long.
Price: $18.00/12 ounces
Rich, sweetly pungent. Caramel, dried fig, cocoa, hops and lavender in aroma and cup. Mellow, round acidity; light though syrupy mouthfeel. The flavor consolidates around cocoa and dried fig in the clean, long finish.
Price: $17.00/12 ounces
Rich, intricately sweet. Honey, rhododendron, tangerine zest and hazelnut in aroma and cup. Juicy, round acidity; buoyant, satiny mouthfeel. Nut and honey dominate in a crisp, quiet finish.
Price: $17.50/12 ounces
Complex and deeply sweet. Apricot, dark chocolate, hazelnut, narcissus, an Oolong tea suggestion in aroma and cup. Juicy, gently tart acidity; plush, syrupy mouthfeel. Cocoa-toned and savory in the short finish, richly drying in the long.
Crisply sweet, cocoa-toned. Cocoa, baked apple, vanilla bean, elm in aroma and slightly savory cup. Gently rounded acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Baked apple and elm carry into a sweet-savory finish.
Price: $17.95/12 ounces
Richly and massively sweet and fruit-toned. Ripe, very slightly fermenty berry (blueberry, strawberry), wisteria, sandalwood, roasted cacao nib, brown sugar in aroma and cup. Round, resonant acidity; full, syrupy mouthfeel. Sandalwood and a chocolaty sweetness dominate in a rich finish.
Fresh, gardeny, bright. Lime, freesia-like flowers, brown sugar, roasted cacao nib, tomato vine in aroma and cup. Juicy, sweetly bright acidity. Lightly syrupy mouthfeel. A sweet finish consolidates around the lime and flowers.
Deep, resonant, opulent. Blackberry, kumquat, chocolate fudge, the lush scent of plumeria in aroma and cup. Big, juicy acidity; syrupy though buoyant mouthfeel. The blackberry and chocolate notes in particular lead into a very sweet, flavor-saturated finish.
Sweetly pungent, distinctive. A rich, attractive fresh tobacco note dominates, complicated by prune, orange, dark chocolate, spicy flowers. Brisk, complexly tart acidity; light but lively, almost effervescent mouthfeel. Flavor rounds and consolidates in a rich finish.
Price: $17.00/12 ounces
Crisp walnut and roasted cacao nib notes balance sweet flowers (freesia?) and nectarine in aroma and cup. Sweetly brisk acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Flavor consolidates in a nicely smooth, sweet-toned finish.
Price: $17.90/12 ounces
Balanced, quietly complete, subtly original. Orange, fresh-cut cedar, lily-like flowers, roasted cacoa nib, a hint of brandy in aroma and cup. Crisply sweet, smoothly nuanced acidity; syrupy though lively mouthfeel. Flavor consolidates but maintains a resonant, layered complexity in a quiet, lasting finish.