Coffee Plant Roasters - Nicaragua Mama Mina

Sometimes, calling these blog entries "Now Drinking" is a bit of a mislabel. Sure, it's the bag of coffee that's currently open, but I'm not really drinking it. That's not it's fault though. That's on me. Coming down with the flu for the second time in a winter, after having the flu shot, does wonders on messing with one's body, and in an attempt to try and deal with some of the headache and anxiety, I've cut my caffeine intake off for the time being.

That said, here's what I started drinking two weeks ago. For once in a long while, I managed to make it off work soon enough to stop in at Coffee Plant Roasters. While there, I picked up this coffee from Nicaragua, the 1st Nicaraguan coffee I've mentioned here.

This coffee all comes from the Mama Mina farm, with more info about the farm here.

Roasters Notes: Clean, semi-sweet, with pleasant notes of nuts and citrus

Once again, I've not actually recorded my taste experience. Sorry. That's what coffee with the flu is like. I wouldn't be able to figure anything about the taste out anyways. I can, however, tell you that it smells good, since I've got the bag right here besides me, since I saved it to remember the tasting notes from the roaster.

Coffee Plant Roasters - Guatemala La Esperanza

This coffee should win an award. For what, you might ask? For the prize of being the first coffee to be posted to this blog while I'm still consuming it. Yay, give it a round of applause, it's earned it.

Anyways, this is another one from CPR, and the fourth from Guatemala. It comes from La Esperanza, in the Quetzaltenango department. I've got no facts about it. It's wikipedia pages are sparse, and most searches just bring up coffee roasters selling their wares. Though that does mean other people also consider it worth drinking.

Now, since I'm currently working my way through this bag of coffee, it'd be safe to say I have tasting notes of it. And...I don't. If nothing crazy stands out, it gets listed as "tastes like coffee." It also doesn't help that it is consumed at work, where my priorities are not detailed tasting notes, but, rather, work. Maybe I'll remedy this, maybe I won't. If I do, it'll end up being an edit at the end of the post.

Coffee Plant Roasters - Light Vienna

After a short break, we're back, and with stuff that, while still being consumed in the past, is certainly being consumed in a much more recent past.

The coffee here comes from Coffee Plant Roasters, still just as accessible by bike as it was before. However, as a bit of a changeup, this marks the first blend I've purchased from there. It's origins are listed as "Sumatra and our favorite Latin." Whether that means a blend of Latin's too, or a single favorite, that's up for debate.

Also up for debate, is their name and description. They've named it after a level of roasting, but then tell you it is only barely in that category. As a follow-up, it then gets described as a "medium to dark roast." So it's a light, medium, dark roast. Got it.

Since it's recent, and I remember something about the taste, I'll actually speak to that here. One flavor description CPR gave was earth. The first few days of drinking this, that earth tasted like dirt. That's not hyperbole. I guess I should just remember that earth = dirt, and shouldn't expect the flavor to be different. That being said, that flavor mellowed out (or became ignored) the further into the bag I drunk.

Coffee Plant Roasters - Kenya Nyeri Peaberry

This is the 3rd Kenyan coffee I've shown on this blog, and the last of my stockpile of roasts from Coffee Plant Roasters.

For those that don't know, the peaberry label means that this coffee comes from cherries that only contained one seed. Normally, a cherry would contain two seeds.

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.

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.

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.

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.