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Guatemala – Finca Las Nubes
The Black Drop has always prided itself with serving and selling excellent coffee. It’s right there in our logo: Excellence, Intensity, Passion. We LOVE coffee, and we love making sure you are getting the very best coffee we can possibly offer. With that, I’d like to introduce to you a very special coffee that will [...]
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Tagged beans, black drop, blackdrop, coffee, feature, finca, Guatemala, kick-ass coffee, maniac roasting
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Life is Like Coffee
I Feel So Empty
We have this quote by Albert Einstein on the vent hood at the shop: “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped [...]
Featured Bean of the Week: Papua New Guinea: Premium Smallholder (PSC)
[ March 28, 2011 to April 4, 2011. ]
Papua New Guinea Green Coffee Beans at Maniac Roasting
We were fortunate enough to have a cupping at Maniac Roasting last week of the Papua New Guinea: Premium Smallholder (PSC). I found the aroma of the coffee to be a rich earthy chocolate mixed with a faint pine. A subtle deep rose floral hovered over the [...]
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Tagged beans, coffee, donkey kong, kong coffee, maniac roasting, papua new guinea, png
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Featured Bean of the Week: Costa Rica SHB Tarrazu “La Pastora”
[ March 14, 2011 to March 21, 2011. ]
[caption id="attachment_422" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Costa Rican Green Beans"][/caption]The Costa Rica SHB Tarrazu “La Pastora” arrived at the Black Drop a few weeks ago and has been a consistent favorite of our Coffees of the Day.
Tarrazu coffees are rated some of the finest in the world. These beans are grown at high altitudes, above 3,900 ft, [...]
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Tagged beans, coffee, costa rica, la pastora, tarrazu
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Cupping at Maniac Roasting
[ March 13, 2011; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ]
[caption id="attachment_393" align="aligncenter" width="179" caption="Cupping at Maniac Roasting"][/caption]We had a great cupping at Maniac Roasting yesterday, hosted with expertise and grace by Alexarc Mastema. Every time that I participate in a cupping I feel learn something new. What was nice about this time is that the entire Black Drop crew was present. By listening to [...]
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Tagged beans, coffee, costa rica, cupping, maniac roasting, papua new guinea, png, tarrazu
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Featured Bean of the Week: Mexican Majomut
[ March 7, 2011 to March 13, 2011. ]
[caption id="attachment_375" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Mexican Majomut Cherries"][/caption]It has just been over the last few weeks that we’ve been receiving the Mexican Majomut from Alexarc at Maniac Roasting. My first inclination was to compare it to our excellent Finca Vista Hermosa Guatemalan and see how it would do. I had read that the higher grown Mexican [...]
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Tagged bean, coffee, majomut, maniac roasting, mexican
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A Black Drop Coffee House Public Service Announcement
[ March 4, 2011 3:00 pm to March 31, 2011 3:00 pm. ]
[caption id="attachment_371" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Black Drop PSA No. 1"][/caption]Featured Bean of the Week: Java Kayumas Estate
[ March 1, 2011 to March 7, 2011. ] [caption id="attachment_342" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Indonesian Coffee"][/caption]
Every time I grind a freshly roasted pound of the Java Kayumas Estate beans, I am amazed at the intensity of the aroma. Malty chocolate, smooth maple and buttery caramel coffee flavors burst out of this bean. It is as if I could taste the air. I have always liked [...]
Featured Bean of The Week: Guatemala – Finca Vista Hermosa – Huehuetenango
[ February 21, 2011 to February 28, 2011. ] Guatemala – Finca Vista Hermosa – Huehuetenango
Location: Agua Dulce, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Elevation: 1280 – 1950 meters
This is one of most popular coffee beans at the Black Drop. Continue reading
