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By Kenneth Davids
February 1st, 1997

90

Green Mountain Coffee

Breakfast Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

An exquisitely balanced traditional American-style coffee. The acidity is dry without astringency, alive with slight fruit or wine notes. Enveloped in the matrix of the body, it is always present but never dominant.

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88

Seattle's Best Coffee

Seattle’s Best Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

This coffee gets better as it goes, probably owing to its heavy body. The dark tones of the aroma modulate with increasing power through the cup to a complex finish.

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85

Thanksgiving Coffee

Colombian Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

This coffee is so complex at the top that it positively levitates, alive with sweet, light vanilla tones. In the finish whatever is left of the body vanishes, the vanilla tones fade, but the sweetness lingers.

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84

Backroads Coffee and Tea

House Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

The acidity doesn't immediately reveal itself in the deep, mouth-filling richness of this coffee, emerging most clearly in the powerful finish. A coffee that, in its understated complexity, seems considerably greater than its parts.

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84

Peet's Coffee & Tea

Major Dickason’s Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

The body is full, the taste richly pungent. The carbon tones permeate, having definitively chased the acidity south, but they're rich, complex carbon tones, rather than the thin kind that whine at you from the cup.

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83

The Coffee Beanery

Beanery Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

A light-medium-roasted blend with power: The aroma is intense and classically acidy. For a coffee so lightly roasted the body is full, and the acidity teases and shimmers before emerging clearly in the finish.

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83

Dallis Bros. Coffee

Roaster Boy Blues

Review Date: Feb 1997

This classic medium-dark coffee gives us solid, mouth-filling dark-roast pungency, though the carbon notes seem to co-opt its sweetness. Some acidity survives the roast, and fills out the top of the profile nicely.

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81

Starbucks Coffee

House Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

The rest of the taste profile plays peek-a-boo around dominating carbon tones in this very dark roasted coffee. Nevertheless, the pungent sweetness that constitutes the upside of darker roasts prevails, particularly in the cup.

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77

Bridgetown Coffee

Bridgetown Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

An intense coffee, particularly in the nose, but without grace notes or much resonance. Carbon tones dominate, but allow some sweetness and pungency to balance the cup.

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75

Peerless Coffee

President’s Private Blend

Review Date: Feb 1997

Given the medium roast, the carbon notes here are a bit of a surprise. Fortunately, the pungent sweetness also characteristic of darker roasts gives the burned, carbon notes some support, and the acidity holds its own until the finish, when it fades into the carbon.

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74

Gevalia

Traditional Roast

Review Date: Feb 1997

For such a relatively light roast, not particularly acidy. In fact, once past the classically rich, fragrant nose, rather flat. Perhaps the coffee arrived a bit stale. Full-bodied enough to please those who like to ride the classic American roast profile while relegating acidity to the back seat.

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68

Café Godiva

Special Roast

Review Date: Feb 1997

This coffee arrived pre-ground (not available whole bean), perhaps accounting for its flatness in nose and cup, although some herbal or prune notes survive in the thin, carbon-toned acidity.

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