Saturday, September 27, 2003


erna's special k

recently i've had the great opportunity to drink a couple of very special coffees roasted by awesome altie and cool scaa charter consumer member jim schulman.

these coffees come from the mother of specialty coffee, erna knutsen. one is the costa rica "miel" coffee from santa elena.

miel means honey; this coffee is dried with some of the cherry still attached, which supposedly makes it sweeter. jim roasted this a bit dark, which surprised me, but it was great. a nice low-brightness coffee.

unusual and yummy. the other was an indonesian, the sulawesi "old toraja." i might have liked this roasted a little more dark than jim did it, actually. it also was quite a treat.

these coffees certainly are distinctive, but i wouldn't call them bad at all. they are just very individual and good.

what suprised me was that i was expecting to prefer the earthy sulawesi. when actually the miel really sent me!

live and learn. or maybe the pro cupper's preferences are beginning to rub off? nah.

both of these coffees reflect the personalities of erna and jim. this adds to their character and charm.

i felt like i knew both of these coffees even before they came out of the french press (aka cafetiere). and that was a great experience, to have a sense of closeness to others through drinking their coffee.

this again reminds me why we love coffee so very much! it's a relationship, actually a web of relationships. . .

so a big bccy thank you to jim and erna, esp. to jim. with friends like these, you have to be grateful!

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