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The flavor of the new Ethiopian Fair Trade Organic Coffees I’m roasting daily here at Roos Roast for $10 a pound goes along way. It's $16 a pound ordered from the site which includes priority shipping (a minimum of $4.60) so you can see the value in Roos Roast Coffee.
The Ethiopian Harrar is spicy, wild, sweet and sexy. How can a coffee be wild, sweet and sexy? You ask, the answer is, it makes you want more. I roast this bean dark or light either way it’s got the character of fine wine and takes me back to my days when I was a professional cafe bum spending hours in the cafes of Portland Oregon (mostly drinking coffee at Peet’s and Stumptown Coffee houses.)
The Ethiopian Yirgacheffe has a little less earthyness and a little more brightness but is still a complex full bodied cup roast light or dark.
This morning at Subaru I decided to test the portion control on a new home style burr grinder made by the Italian company La Pavoni. I pick this bad baby up over at Kitchen Port. I’m brewing a light roast FTO Ethoipian Yirgacheffe here at The Subaru Dealership with an institutional Bunn drip coffee maker diner style where the coffee which is supplied by some company who keeps us stocked up with individual portion control bags.(I've never touched the stuff in 3.5 years of working here) Usually this gas station/tire store quality coffee sits on the heating element for hours, but not when it’s Roos Roast because people be drinking that coffee up fast!
The La Pavoni model # PA Burr-B Winns! It's efficient, relatively quiet, and fast with ceramic burrs and very little static cling. When set on 10 cups it puts out a good amount of coffee so it’s set up for serious coffee drinking. I dampened the grounds and brewed a pot. This is very smooth and stout and drinkable here at work! I’m going to be switching to this as my recommended grinder very soon because it’s better then what I was using.
Have a great 4th. And drink more coffee!