Movie Time - CocoraVelo

Sometimes, you find footage on the internet that fits in so well with the theme of the blog that you can't help but share it.

This is a short documentary about a bikepacking trip to Colombia, with the purpose of learning about how coffee is grown and produced.

COCORAVELO | An All The Places Original from All The Places on Vimeo.

In addition to the video, check out All The Places' Instagram. They've got some photos, behinds the scenes footage, and mentions of future travel documentaries.

Thanks to The Radavist for sharing this in the first place.

Tailored Coffee Roasters - Colombia La Chorrera

Tailored Coffee Roasters is another roaster local to me, and, like Coffee Plant Roasters, is also surprisingly easy to reach by bicycle on the way home from work. They aren't exactly new, I just never bothered stopping there and picking up a bag from them before now. That's not to say I haven't had their coffee before. There's a coffee shop a short walk from my house that uses them for their beans.

So, now that the coffee shop introduction is out of the way, on to the beans. These come from Nariño, Colombia, but I couldn't tell you if that means the department or the city within it.

Like the last coffee on the site, I apologize that, to my taste buds, coffee is usually just coffee, and tastes as such. That being said, I do have something resembling notes for this one. Most importantly, is that this is a fairly light roast, and because of this, it threw off my brewing slightly.

My usual routine can be best summed as 4 mins in a french press, but the first few times I brewed it, I was left with the distinctly mild sour taste of under extracted coffee. It's a problem I hadn't really had with the french press before. Not unless I was tired and accidentally added water to whole beans. Adjusting the grind a few notches tighter has now helped, but it wasn't something I was expecting. I'll probably forget the change and end up over extracting the first cup of whatever's next.

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.