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I’m going to Nyeri!

December 15, 2009 By MindanaoBob 6 Comments
These Green Coffee Beans are Decaf beans, and they really are quite brown!

Nyeri is a district in the Central Province of Kenya, in Africa.  I'm gonna be going there!  Well, through my coffee cup, anyway!  That's right, I'm not going to physically go there and visit the place, but I just got two coffees that originated from the Nyeri area in Kenya!  Yes, the Postman visited yesterday to notify me that my fifteen pound box of green coffee beans had arrived and were ready to be picked up at the main Davao Post Office, so I headed down there and picked them up right away! Within 15 minutes after getting home with my box of beans, I was already at the stove and roasting them too!  I was so excited, because Kenya … [Read more...]

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Kenya AA Eegads Estate

June 7, 2009 By MindanaoBob Leave a Comment
Kenya

OK, one of the coffees that I have promised a review of is Kenya AA Eegads Estate.  This coffee came, obviously from Kenya.  I roasted this coffee to what is called a "Full City+" roast.  This is a fairly dark roast, especially for me, as I tend to prefer a lighter roast on my coffee. When I roasted this, I started drinking after 24 hours rest.  At that time, I had a half cup for sampling.  I liked it.  It has a light fruit flavor.  I enjoy fruity tasting coffees, and this one had what I liked.  I took my second taste after 48 hours of rest post-roast.  This time I made a full cup.  Wow!  It was a fruit BOMB.  It was like this stuff … [Read more...]

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Rwanda Cup of Excellence

May 31, 2009 By MindanaoBob Leave a Comment
Rwanda

OK, the other day, I promised to share my cupping impressions on the variety of coffees that I recently received.  So, I'll start doing that today. Let's start with... Rwanda Cup of Excellence #18 - Nkundiye Innocent - Bufcoffee Nyarusiza For the purposes of the article, from here on out, I will simply call this coffee Rwanda CoE for short.  I roasted these beans to the point where I was just hearing the start of the 2nd crack (an audible popping sound, almost like hearing popcorn pop).  This level of roast to people who know coffee is called Full City+.  Full City+ is about the darkest that I usually enjoy my coffee.  For fruitier … [Read more...]

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