Coffee Cuppers

We have been wanting to do a coffee tasting for the past couple months to step outside our normal “routine”, and we finally got to do it this weekend.  We had 8 different kinds to try, and it was FUN.

The coffees we tried:

Starbucks Sumatra Aceh
Starbucks Caffe Verona
Starbucks Columbia
Starbucks Breakfast Blend
Handsome Coffee Roasters San Sebastian
Coffee AM Chocolate Strawberry
Coffee AM Sumatra Black Satin
Coffee AM Jamaica Blue Mountain

There wasn’t a huge rhyme or reason to the choosing of these.  All of the Coffee AM kinds were given to us by my mother-in-law (Thanks Chyrl!), and the Handsome Coffee was purchased by Stormie – read about it here.

We used the French Press method to brew them, because that is how we both normally make our coffee.  We also had half and half and sugar/splenda because again, that is how we normally drink our coffee, and we felt that it wouldn’t be a good tasting if we made any major changes.

I was excited.

We each took notes on the taste of each.  Mostly, we just wrote words that came to mind as we drank.

Here’s what we both thought:

Starbucks Sumatra Aceh

Stephanie – Strong flavor, very bold
Stormie – A lot of flavor, depth, bold

Starbucks Caffe Verona

Stephanie – Campfire taste, ashy, smokey
Stormie – Campfire-y, bitter, dark

Starbucks Columbia

Stephanie – Smooth, silky, marshmallowy
Stormie – Light, smooth, silky

Starbucks Breakfast Blend

Stephanie – Smooth, crisp, mellow
Stormie – Smooth, light, don’t like the smell

Handsome Coffee Roasters San Sebastian

Stephanie –  Tropical fruit, citrus, acidic, unpleasant smell, worse with each sip
Stormie – Smells the best, sharp, tangy, tropical, tart

Coffee AM Chocolate Strawberry

Stephanie – weak, light, tastes like strawberry wafers, dessert-like, neopolitian ice cream
Stormie – light, sweet, wouldn’t drink on a regular basis as “coffee”

Coffee AM Sumatra Black Satin

Stephanie – A bit weak, mild flavor, very mellow
Stormie – Slightly acidic, weak

Coffee AM Jamaica Blue Mountain

Stephanie – Very dark, woodsy, ashy, will put hair on your chest!
Stormie –  Strong, ashy, bitter

Stephanie’s winner of the day:  Starbucks Columbia

Stormie’s winner of the day:  Starbucks Sumatra Aceh

We are so glad that we did this tasting, and we will for SURE do another one!  Have any suggestions of coffees to try for the next one?

 

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