There is a God!

I just spent 6 nights with my family travelling to and from Dubuque, IA. I've had coffee in hotel rooms, lobbies, and restaurants during that whole time and now that I am home I have just roasted the last of my Salimba from Zimbabwe and brewed a very fresh cup..... Yes, my friends, if you have ever contemplated the existence of God allow me to assure you that he does truly exist. How do I know? Because He has put goodness in my cup, it overflows, and my face is wet with tears of sheer joy from the overwhelming urge to worship.

It saddens me that so many people still do not roast there own coffee beans.

Salimba

Zimbabwe

As I sit here, my face is wet with tears for I weep at how good this coffee is.

I French-Roasted this batch and this Salimba is as good as anything that I have ever tasted. Its flavor is traditional yet not at all typical. Uh oh, I feel the bubblings of artistic expression rising in my soul.......

Hath not doth my soul to praise,
Your glory for I am made,
Creation cries out for salvation
And with Christ (and I believe coffee) you did save.

Phew, that needed to come out.

Anyway, if I were to start a coffee supply company, I am confident that this would be my number one seller and I am pretty sure that you would be a loyal customer.

BINGO! I Call It "Manna" (Blend #5)

Have you ever wondered how some flavors were developed? I suppose much of it is just like it happens in the commercial where one idiot is walking down the street eating a chocolate bar while some other fool is walking down an adjoining street eating peanut butter from the jar, both so engrossed in their snacks that "POW" they run into each other and the chocolate accidentally got into the peanut butter and the Peanut Butter Cup emerges. OR... Some chemical engineer needs to come up with a new flavor to save his hide from the unemployment line and starts mixing all sorts of wacky flavors until "BINGO" they invent a winner.

Well I, like the chemical engineer, keep putting coffee beans together in the hopes of finding a Bingo. Yesterday I found a winner and I call it "Manna"

1 oz. Zimbabwe Salimba
1 oz. Kenyan Gichi Kiambu
1 oz. Sumatran Aceh Gold

I roasted this batch to a Full-City+ removing the heat just as the second crack was starting. I brewed it in the french press which created a very full body cup but not (as my wife commonly refers to it) chewy. And the aroma was mildly sweet and fragrant with no hint of a rogue acidity.

The flavor was full, deep and rich - free of free floating background taste-nuances and bitters. This cup was so good that my wife suggested that I make this for her tea-party this Saturday. Even though my wife is developing a taste for good coffee, this is a huge compliment to the flavor of this blend.

I am going to blend this again to make sure that I get a consistent cup and when I do I think I will take on Timmy Horton's.