Wandering Goat - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Tumticha

After the last coffee being a Yirgacheffe, it's time for more Yirgacheffe! This Wandering Goat roast comes from the Tumticha Co-op.

It's not the first Yirgacheffe I'd ever had, and it certainly wasn't the last.

Coffee Plant Roasters - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe

Here's another Yirgacheffe, this time from Coffee Plant Roasters. It's marked as single origin, but doesn't differentiate any further by region or co-op.

That doesn't really matter in my book, because Yirgacheffe is still probably my favorite coffee region.

Stumptown - Ecuador Cariamanga

Stumptown trading cards are back! I mean, they've never actually left, but after a short break of one other roast, here's another Stumptown. This one comes from Ecuador.

I've got no other anecdote about this one, other than that it was apparently good enough for me to end up with two cards of it.

Coffee Plant Roasters - El Salvador Apaneca

Here's a Coffee Plant Roasters roast from El Salvador. I had something more to write here, then I got distracted trying to remember what I had written on the previous coffee from El Salvador.

Both coffees from El Salvador have tasting notes that include sugar. That must mean that there's something sweet hiding in them. Next time I drink coffee from El Salvador, I'll have to pay attention to that.

Stumptown - Guatemala Bella Vista

Stumptown's trading cards are back after a short break. This one comes to us from the country of Guatemala. It's grown in a land full of volcanoes, but certainly doesn't sound like it tasted fiery.

Sisters Coffee - High Desert Sunrise

Here's a blend, coming from the town of Sisters, Oregon. They describe it as their brightest blend. That's about all I know about it. They give no further information about it.

It's weird to think how the meanings of words can be co-opted, for brightness, a measure of luminance, to become a taste descriptor.

Wandering Goat - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Aylele

Surprise! It's more Yirgacheffe. This one just so happens to be Wandering Goat. The best I can tell is that Aylele is a grower within Yirgacheffe. It brings up a lot of results in Google for Ayele too. I have no idea if those are one and the same, similar to the several possible variations on Yirgacheffe.

Coffee Plant Roasters - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Adame Gorbota

It's time to break up that string of trading cards. Here we have a Coffee Plant Roasters roast from Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. This specific one came from the Adame Gorbota Co-op.

I know nothing about the co-op, from whence this came, but I do know that I like coffees from Yirgacheffe. Part of that might be because Yirgacheffe is so much fun to say. Part of that might be because they are tasty.

Stumptown - Indonesia Sulawesi Toarco Toraja

Here's more Stumptown roasts. The name of it certainly is long though, so, through the power of the internet, lets break it down. Sulawesi is an island in Indonesia. Toarco Toraja is a Japanese company that helps the growers grow, process, and sell their beans. The Toraja part of the name comes from the Toraja region from the previously mentioned island of Sulawesi. I don't know the meaning behind Toarco.

That was a lot of words, just about the name of a coffee. It's starting to look like a research project in here.

Stumptown - Bolivia Buenavista

I've got a lot of these Stumptown trading cards. I wonder how they would sound when attached to the spokes of a bicycle.

As per usual, it's been so long ago that I drank this coffee, that I remember nothing about it. Judging by the two smilie faces drawn upon the front of the card, I, or someone in my household apparently like it a lot though.

Stumptown - Peru Cecovasa

Here's another Stumptown roast. Intrigued by the note about it, I ended up researching this coffee a bit more. CECOVASA is a co-op, and this coffee, was used in the 2014 US AeroPress Championships. Not this bag though, because I drank this one myself.

It's weird to me that I use a loosely scientific 4 minutes in a French Press to brew most of my coffee, and there are people out there, working to perfect their brewing, to make the most perfect cup of coffee. Here I am, banging rocks together, trying to create fire.

Wandering Goat - Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Gedeo Harfusa

This is a Wandering Goat Yirgacheffe. I'm not entirely sure who or what Gedeo Harfusa is. I've never spent time researching. Anyways, if there is a coffee region I seem to keep coming back to, it certainly seems to be Yirgacheffe, for this is one of many varieties of Yirgacheffe I have consumed.

I was even so considerate in writing the date I opened the bag of coffee for this one. April 2014. Almost 3 and a half years ago. That'll give you, the reader, an idea of just how long some of these coffee labels were sitting in a drawer.

Stumptown - Holler Mountain

Here's more Stumptown. I'm beginning to think I drank a lot of Stumptown. Thanks friend who worked at a Stumptown serving coffee shop. Though if I remember correctly, I actually purchased this one myself.

Sorry, no tasting notes from me.

Stumptown - Colombia El Jordan

Here's another Stumptown roast. With it, comes a realization that the label color is a secret code. And here I thought the only special color was the brown for their regular blends.

Stumptown - Guatemala Santa Clara

Here's another Stumptown coffee, with it's Stumptown trading card. From Guatemala, another country I've visited, but not specifically for its coffee.

Reading the description on this one makes me realize just how much effort Stumptown puts into meeting who they buy their beans from. I wonder how much effort they still put into that after being bought out. Sounds like something to look into.

An additional note. I've apparently liked this one enough to end up with multiple bags of it at different times.

*** 10/7/2017 - Update ***

This is embarrassing. I took two sets of photos of different Santa Clara cards. My sister gave this coffee a thumbs up.

As an additional note, who is Luis Pedro, and why am I expected to know him?

Badbeard's - Kenya AA Lot 117

I probably purchased this coffee because Badbeard sounded like a cool name for a roaster. Also, a pirate coffee bean? Pretty cool, right? What is even more interesting is how much information about the beans they provide. Not just a region, but who grew it, what type of beans they were, what they did with it, and where it was washed.

I can neither confirm, nor deny, it's ability to chase away Holiday Blahs.

All I know really know about it now however, is that it's been a few years since I bought this bag of coffee, and I've not yet purchased more.

Stumptown - Costa Rica Montes de Oro

Here's another Stumptown trading card, this time, hailing from the country of Costa Rica.

I brought coffee from this region back with me from a trip to Central America, however, that was long before this bag of coffee was even beans on a shrub.

Stumptown - El Salvador Kilimanjaro

Once again, here's another Stumptown trading card.

 

In college, I took a trip to Central America, and spent a few days in El Salvador as part of it. I don't remember much about their coffee. I do remember that their official currency is the US Dollar. That was weird to go back to after spending so much time with other currencies.

Coffee Plant Roasters - Java Taman Dadar

Coffee Plant Roasters, and the shortened CPR, a fitting acronym to the feeling of coming back to life upon it's consumption, is a relatively new roaster. I started buying their coffee after I discovered they were easy to get to by bike on the way home from work. At the time, you'd pick what coffee you wanted, and they would go scoop it out of a larger container in the back. Eventually, they started pre-bagging coffee.

Notes of fresh mint and butterscotch

 Sometimes, I leave work too late, and they're closed before I can get there. I end up drinking whatever comes out of the pot at work on those days. Work coffee definitely sat in the roaster too long. Leaving work early because you need better coffee is a good excuse in my book.

Stumptown - Hair Bender

Here's another hairy selection, with another Stumptown coffee trading card. It's their hair bender blend.

Wandering Goat - Hair of the Goat

I started buying Wandering Goat's coffee sometime after I decided I should prioritize buying from local coffee roasters. They certainly have good coffee.

I don't remember if this coffee actually got my goat. I'm not sure if it is the GOAT. It did taste better than actual goat hair though.

Stumptown - Kenya Gachatha

Most of the saving of coffee labels came from the cards on a bag of beans from Stumptown Coffee Roasters. They were and are, in a way, a sort of trading card fact sheet on the coffee you're consuming.

I must have really enjoyed this one, because there were 3 cards for it in the pile. Either that, or my friend from a Stumptown serving coffee shop liked making me drink it.

The French Press Grounds at the Bottom of the Cup

Time consumes a lot of coffee. Once upon a time, I began keeping track of what I drank, by saving the labels from the various bags of coffee I purchased. Eventually I stopped, but still kept on to the old labels. They will end up archived here.

Don't expect tasting notes. I know what sorts of flavors I like, but can't describe them myself. If you ask, I'll say it tastes like coffee. And wine tastes like wine. And beer like beer. You drink one, you've drunk them all. Except for coffee in a tea bag. That stuff is bad.