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We have published thousands of coffee reviews and espresso reviews since 1997. The reviews below appear in reverse chronological order by review date. Older reviews may no longer accurately reflect current versions of the same coffee. To search for a specific roaster, origin or coffee use the Advanced Search Function.


79

Two Guys Roasting

Roaster Blend

Review Date: Sep 1999

Pungent and woody out front, with winy, fruity undertones turned toward dry chocolate by the roast. A hint of flowers in the finish. Marred by an overly aggressive roast: Flat, charred tones verging on creosote sit on an otherwise expansive, complex profile.

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89

Sweet Maria's Coffee

Ethiopian Harrar “Horse”

Review Date: Sep 1999

Tremendous but balanced range and dimension. The acidity is full, deep, sweet, enveloped in the unifying matrix of the cup. Circumspect hints of fruit and flowers emerge in finish and aftertaste. As the coffee cools the slightest hint of ferment reveals itself behind the rich aromatics of the cup.

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87

Muddy Waters Coffee

Ethiopia Washed Sidamo, Vienna Roast

Review Date: Sep 1999

Amazingly, behind the dampening effect of the aggressive dark roast a delicate, exquisite floral sweetness survives among the equally delicate charred, pungent notes. Think of a meadow that survived a forest fire.

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85

Muddy Waters Coffee

Organic Timor Aifu, Vienna Roast

Review Date: Sep 1999

A dark roast that tip-toes past burned to achieve a smooth, integrated bittersweetness, enlivened by a hint of acidity and a touch of fruit.

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81

Anthony's Coffee

Paia Blend

Review Date: Sep 1999

This coffee opens opulently, with a complex, enveloping aroma alive with nutty, spicy, bittersweet tones. In the cup the profile is smoky sweet, discreetly brightened by a touch of acidity. As the cup cools, however, the sweetness fades and the smokiness reveals hard, musty undertones. My rating faded too, from a high of 87 to a final landing at 81.

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86

Alaska Coffee Roasting Company

Ethiopia Harrar

Review Date: Sep 1999

Smoky, resiny tones turn the Harrar fruit richly winy. In the finish everything softens and sweetens. The cabernet fruit tones deepen toward chocolate and the smoke tones turn toward fresh tobacco.

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94

Alaska Coffee Roasting Company

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe

Review Date: Sep 1999

A light, bright breath of acidity shimmers inside an amazing bouquet of sweet jasmine and darker, woodier fragrances. The cup soars in a delicious, reeling dizziness of flowers, then immediately relaxes into spicy shadows. Somehow, all of the range and complexity remains precariously, elegantly in balance.

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85

Sweet Maria's Coffee

Mocca Java Blend

Review Date: Sep 1999

Pungent Sumatra tones wrap around the Ethiopian flowers and Yemen fruit. The deep, aromatic wood tones modulate to a fruity, cherryish chocolate in the finish. The pungency turned slightly flat as the cup cools, slightly shadowing an intriguing and dramatic cup.

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89

Milagro Coffee y Espresso

Mexican Maya

Review Date: Sep 1999

Classic vanilla-nut aroma and a solid, authoritatively dry cup, bright but not brassy. Not a lot of nuance, but outstanding range and balance.

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84

Yosemite Coffee Roasting

Oakhurst Morning

Review Date: Sep 1999

A pleasant roast-driven pungency balances a sturdy, assertive acidity. Dry and authoritative. Something seems to be flattening nuance, however. Either the five blend components are canceling one another out or the forceful roast has driven out some aromatics. In any event, more sweetness and lift would make a pleasantly hearty Oakhurst morning even rosier.

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88

Milagro Coffee y Espresso

Ethiopian Yirgacheffe

Review Date: Sep 1999

The famous Yirgacheffe flower tones are brighter and sturdier than usual here: less levitating, more grounded, fresh but rich, accessible, gently acidy. The cup darkens toward cedar and chocolate in the finish, the aftertaste is long and richly floral.

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83

Guillermo Botero Mejia

Don Pedro Supremo

Review Date: Aug 1999

This complex, fruity, softly intense coffee unleashed a torrent of description from the panel. On aroma: "sweet cocoa, dried cherries"; "very strong & fruity." Descriptions of acidity included sweet, floral, fruity. Body: buttery yet light. Cup: fruity, sweet, "strong honey notes, very nice, very different." The odd intensity of this coffee, arresting yet restrained, disturbed two panelists: "Some may call this coffee pleasingly complex, but I find it a little wild," declared one. Count me in the pleasingly complex camp. I loved this coffee.

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82

Exportadora de Café Condor

Café Virgen de Oro

Review Date: Aug 1999

A promising coffee shadowed by inconsistency. The good cups: sweet, full, deep, but alive with a pleasing shimmer of acidity. The bad: full and sweet but monotoned, flat, with a disturbing hint of astringency in aftertaste.

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82

Cafetera de Chaparral

Tuluni Supremo

Review Date: Aug 1999

Lots of praise for the fruity nose, but the cup failed to excite and the aftertaste disappointed. Overall, panelists found little to either condemn or admire. I felt the coffee had been cleanly processed but still emerged flat.

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79

Milone Bros. Coffee

Guatemalan Antigua, 1999

Review Date: Jul 1999

A promising coffee dried out in the roast. The slightly charred bittersweetness edges toward chocolate but doesn't quite make it. Any remaining nuance appears to have been burned off.

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87

Heritage Coffee

Guatemala Huehuetenango ’99

Review Date: Jul 1999

An exquisitely refined chocolate sensation dominates the profile. The chocolate is at its richest and sweetest in aroma, then turns pleasantly dry in the cup and lingers crisply in aftertaste. This may be a bit of a one-note coffee, but it's a very elegant note.

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81

Oren's Daily Roast

Antigua Bella Carmona ’99

Review Date: Jul 1999

The bright Latin-American profile is complicated in the aroma by dry, pungently roasty nut tones. The cup displays unusual vegetal tones that reach toward floral, but fall a bit short.

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84

Montana Coffee Traders

Guatemalan El Injerto, 1999

Review Date: Jul 1999

The powerful acidity is like a whack across the palate. It doesn't allow much else to make an impression, although some cups hinted at a nutty sweetness. Perhaps the robust, dominating acidity is pleasure enough.

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89

Boyd Coffee

Guatemalan Antigua, 1999

Review Date: Jul 1999

A gently bright coffee, sweet and alive with spice and smoke in the aroma and floral innuendo in the cup. The floral tones linger in the aftertaste. Just enough resonance and depth to maintain authority.

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84

Café Del Mundo

Guatemala Fraijanes, 1999

Review Date: Jul 1999

A rich, rounded acidity dominates with unaffected clarity from aroma through aftertaste. A cup in which nuance is not so much absent as irrelevant to the cup's essential candor.

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