Counter Culture Coffee Washington, DC

10 Cuppers

3 coffee

Valle del Santuario,

San Ignacio, Peru

Fragrances and Aromas included: Warm peanut sauce, plums, toasted cereal, muted fruits, cinnamon, cooked onion, walnuts, and apples.  The break held some ginger, apricots, and soy milk.

We tasted things like Amaretto, Macintosh apples, graham crackers, puffed wheat, and earth.  Unripe melon and orange zest described this medium high brightness, while the body of this coffee was soft, creamy, and light (but not thin).  Sweet, dry, soft, and dusty were the final descriptors referencing the aftertaste.

An overall go-to coffee that is easy drinking, sweet, and pleasant with some great complexity in the cup.  This coffee is in season and killin’ it!

Sadly, no favorites.

Nyakizu

Butare, Rwanda

We smell savory! Tomato, vegetables, Slim Jim, cumin, soy sauce, red curry paste, squash

We smell sweet!  Blueberry, maple, dark floral, grape jelly, fruits, blueberry

We smell sour!  Marmalade, sourdough, tart

Then we tasted lots of pretty things that were a combination of all three.  They included caramelized apples, meyer lemons, cascara, caramel, fruits, berry, raspberry jam, citrus, baked squash, syrah, cooked carrots, sweet stew, dried fruits, and pancakes.

The body was like cranberry juice and the aftertaste was a juicy, lingering brightness.

This coffee was bursting with flavor and made us all want to come back for more.

10 favorites!

This coffee will be available May 11th.

Gayo

Jagong, Aceh, Sumatra

Chocolate, chocoalate, chocolate for everything!  Every time we tasted or smelled this coffee, we had to dig down through the chocolate to find other things.  We did manage to come up with a few other yummy descriptors.

We smelled habenero, mace, soil, rubber, perlite, cinnamon, tobacco, roasted nuts, and brulee sugar.

We tasted pencil, tobacco, ash, vanillin (imitation vanilla), cherry cough syrup, root beer, licorice, peppers

We felt a heavy, buttery texture with a gritty, chalkiness at the end.  The aftertaste was equated to having just finished a cigar.

I am in love with the chocolate this coffee has to offer.

No one chose this as their favorite.