Date: 04 Aug 2006 14:11:05
From: Lloyd Parsons
Subject: A tale of two harars
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I have recently had the pleasure of getting two different Harar beans.
One from Willoughby's and the other from Sweetmarias. While similar,
there is some difference.
For info, I tend to lighter roasts, just personal preference.
The Willoughby's Harar is very good, with a delicious nuance of dry
blueberry. The nuance develops in the second day after roast and sticks
around for about 3 days. This roasted through 1st crack.
The Sweetmarias Harar Green Stripe they recently started shipping is
also a very good coffee. The dry blueberry nuance is in there, but
lighter than in the Willoughby's and it didn't stick around past 2 days.
Also roasted through 1st crack.
With both, even past the time the blueberry nuance disappears, the
flavor is excellent. Brewed either as a drip or as a 5 oz pull through
an espresso machine.
Both coffees were roasted on a FreshRoast +8 and Zach & Dani's roasters.
The differences between the two roasters was that the Z&D ones were
slightly smoother. Realistically, not very noticeable at all. If I
hadn't done taste tests and just been drinking them, I doubt that I
would have been able to tell the difference.
This was different from my experience with the two roasters and
Yirgacheffe.
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