As regular readers know, I have a love of Costa Rican coffee. I've spent time in the Terrazu region, and been on several of the farms down there. So I'm always happy to try a new coffee from the region. Stone Creek Coffee is offering Costa Rica 2014 as a seasonal coffee. This coffee was a featured coffee at the 2014 U.S. Barista Competition. Impressive, but how does it taste?Stone Creek says this coffee has notes of fig, almond and peach. To be honest, that didn't sound promising to me. Other than Fig Newtons, I'm not a fig guy. No worries, the fig taste in this is slight. The nuttiness comes through more with this coffee than you would expect from a Costa Rican coffee. I normally get nutty flavors in Indonesian coffees. So this surprised me.
This is a darker coffee for a medium, which gives it a richer taste and flavor. This is a very different coffee from the Bolivian coffee we tried earlier in the week. The barista at the cafe told us this would work great in the French Press, and she was correct. This is a terrific French Press coffee. This coffee is a job well done by the roasters.
This is also a coffee that smacks you around a little, if you need the wake up call. On our Cher scale of strength, I would give this an 8. This is like the argument between Cher and Olympia Dukakis' characters in Moonstruck, after Cher comes home from a night with Nicolas Cage.
By now you know that I think the world of the coffees Stone Creek produces. Chicago gets a lot of ink the coffee press about being a coffee location in the Midwest, but let's not ignore their neighbors to the north. Milwaukee is on the coffee map, and Stone Creek is helping putting it there.
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Charlie
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