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            <title>Just Coffee - Breakfast Blend</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[![http://justcoffee.e-beans.net/coffees/index.php|Just Coffee] Breakfast Blend
Their website states:
{QUOTE()} Just Coffee is proud to offer shade-grown, organic, fair trade coffees, which we air-roast in micro-batches of 68 pounds or less.
All of our coffees are purchased from democratically-organized cooperatives for a fair price.{QUOTE}
According to the packaging "Breakfast Blend" is composed of Ethiopian and Guatemalan beans.  
I like the idea of air-roasted micro-batches as this is similar to how a home-roaster like our friend Jeff would craft a coffee.  This particular blend has a satisfying and apparent mouth feel, subtle chocolate aroma and very mellow nutty flavor.  There is just a trace of winey tannen, but it's been subdued for every-day drinking.  
Many thanks to our friends in Resale for sharing this with us!]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:49:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Intelligentsia &quot;Diablo&quot;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[![http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/store/coffee/world/diablo|Intelligentsia "Diablo"]
{QUOTE()}Our flagship dark roast offers a different look at some of the best coffees we have available each season.  Delicious dark chocolate notes are softened by a seductive buttery sweetness and accented with mild floral flavors.  The finish is sweet, elegant, and crystal clean.
--Intelligentsia "Diablo" Page {QUOTE}

Tasty.  I'm a fan of dark roasts and enjoy Intelligentsia's offerings.  Diablo gave me a nice buzz for an afternoon treat and the chocolate tones were indeed subtle though I did not perceive anything particularly "buttery" about the flavor or texture.  Thanks to our friend in Film who shared this with us!

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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:13:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Yemen Mokha Mattari</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[![http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.arabia.yemen.html#Yemen_Mattari|Yemen Mokha Mattari]
{QUOTE()} Mattari is different than our other Yemeni offerings: Dark chocolate tones and winey fruit backdrop{QUOTE}

Jeff brought in a freshly home roasted, burr ground, Sweet Maria's [http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee.arabia.yemen.html#Yemen_Mattari|Yemen Mokha Mattari] this morning.  The grounds had a curious woodsy aroma and made me expect a winey cup much like the [http://coffeetiki.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?topics_offset=5&topics_sort_mode=lastPost_desc&forumId=1&comments_parentId=10|Sumatra Lingtong].  Fortunately for me there was little tannen and much more nuttiness with the very dominant dark chocolate mouthfeel described by Sweet Maria's.  I also tasted some grassy undertones similar to an alfalfa that was pleasant.  ]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:49:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Kirkland New Guinea</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If you happen to shop Costco and are curious about the New Guinea beans in the fancy black bag they are stocking lately, this is a review for you.
The Costco in Chicago appears to roast their coffee on site, though I've yet to find evidence of this aside from the enormous drum roaster surrounded by bags for whole beans.  Nevertheless the variety they carry is certainly a few steps up from the major canned coffees one might find packed in a grocery store aisle.
"New Guinea" claims "a dark roast with a good acidity and a sweet fruity finish".  I'd say the description is pretty close to the experience.  

Please keep in mind that the following review is in comparison to the amazing coffees we have had the good fortune to try lately, thanks to Jeff.  We are a bit spoiled!  

The aroma is rather weak though sweet and nutty.  Cupping flavors border on the bitter, but not unpleasant and seems balanced with the slightly nutty and subtly chocolate compliment.  The body is nothing special, but satisfying.  Despite the beans appearing greasy and the grounds being rather sticky on the grinder, the oils, surprisingly, do not make an appearance on the top of my cup.

For about $12 you get three pounds of roasted beans that would make a good substitute for something like Intelligentsia Black Cat at times when money is short and days are long.
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:27:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Ethiopia Organic Idido Misty Valley DP</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well, I got in 12 pounds of beans from Sweet Maria's.  I'm excited to try some more Yemen and Ethiopian varieties.  We did some calculating to figure how much coffee we would drink in 16 weeks here at work and came up with 20 lbs.  Let's see   how far 12 pounds goes....  ]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:17:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Blue Bottle Coffee Co. &quot;Sidamo&quot;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[![http://www.bluebottlecoffee.net|Blue Bottle Coffee Co.]
So once again, our extremely generous pal from the Film Department has brought us some coffee to try.  This time it is from San Francisco via Moe.  Looking at the website, this company sure sounds right up my alley.  They are practitioners of "Artisanal Microroasting".  "We take a hands-on approach to every step possible to discover and preserve the true nature of excellent coffee -- no matter how inconvenient or time-consuming."  That's what I want to be when I grow up!  As if there weren't enough reasons to move to San Francisco already, now I have to add this to the list.

So first of all, the coffee comes in a really cool brown paper bag.  It appears to be silkscreened with their logo.  There is a stamp with the name of the variety, and on the back they stamp the date that it was roasted, in this case, March 11, 2008.  Very cool.  It makes the zip lock bag I bring my coffee to work in look pretty shabby.




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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:42:27 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rawanda Duhingekawa Women's Cooperative</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[![http://sweetmarias.com/coffee.africa.rwanda.html|Rawanda Duhingekawa Women's Cooperative]

A micro-lot, fair trade certified coffee produced by a group of 70 women in Rwanda.  "Duhingekawa" translates as "Let Us Make Coffee".  This group of women is part of the larger Abakundakawa Coop and they pick their best coffee beans for this lot.  Read all about it  [http://sweetmarias.com/rwandaduhingekawa/RwandaDuhingekawa.html|here]. ]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:59:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>David Lynch Coffee: Organic House Blend</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Wow, our good friend from the Film Department just brought us some [http://davidlynch.com/coffee/|David Lynch Organic House Blend].  It has caused Fat_Hen to shrink to the size of a midget and now he's talking backwards and spitting up garbanzo beans.  I just hope he doesn't start huffing something and demanding Pabst Blue Ribbon.

I have a theory that David Lynch eats raw coffee berries and excretes the beans and packages them for us to grind up and make coffee.  Let's hope this is true.

As far as how it tastes?  It's in line with the Yemen and Ethiopian varieties I would say, appropriately nutty.  A nice cup of coffee, plus lots of inspiration for David Lynch talk around the office core.  It even inspired a conversation about Pasolini's "120 Days of Sodom".

Thanks Dan!]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:11:10 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Favorite Coffee spots?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When I lived in Los Angeles, I was lucky enough to live across the street from an all-night, tiki-space themed coffee bar serving decadant mochas and catering to smokers. 
{img src=show_image.php?id=13 align=center}
[http://www.cacaocoffeehouse.com/home.htm|Cacao] is really small, but was rarely crowded.  Only open at night, there was also an excellent Vietnamese restaraunt right next door!  Unfortunately for Cacao, Le Saigon introduced me to the delightful Vietnamese style iced-coffee (brewed over condensed milk and poured over ice), and summer found me sipping coffee and rice noodles on evenings I had a little money to spend.  Still, I think of Cacao and fond memories from there.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:35:56 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>What is your cheap-ass coffee of choice?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I'll admit that I like the Puerto Rican, vacuum packed, espresso brand __Rico Rico__ over anything else that is unfortunate enough to end up in a supermarket endcap for $2 a brick.  It tastes nice brewed carefully in a french-press or foil drip and gets along with cardamom.  What has fingerprints in the dusty dark corner of your pantry?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:00:12 +0100</pubDate>
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