Dogwood / Uganda / Rwenzori / Natural

This is the first specialty coffee I had in Minnesota, and the first time I've had Ugandan coffee. Per Dogwood's site, Uganda primarily produces robusta coffee, but they've expanded into arabica and the results are exciting to the coffee world. 

The coffee was described as having notes of "crunch berries and cherry pie." I was confused at first as to what exactly a crunch berry was. I thought that there was no way it was a reference to Cap'n Crunch cereal, but rather some type of berry I was not intelligent enough to know about. After a few minutes, the fruity cereal flavor became too difficult to ignore, so I lowered my ego and googled "crunch berry." I was right. 

The flavor was good, but unfortunately, it was difficult to ignore the wateriness of the coffee. The little body it had left my tongue wanting. I understand that light roast coffees typically are lighter bodied, but this was too far. 

As the coffee cooled, the cherry pie came to the front. This is part of the frustration of coffee for me. Much of the flavor needs the coffee to not be hot. But when it starts to get cold enough for those special flavors, I'm in crisis mode, trying to slurp up my drink while it's still good (hot). And after too long, I've got a room temperature drink I don't have the patience to sip. I will figure this out. It's a good thing the cherry flavor (I tasted and smelled no pie) did not appeal to me. 

Otherwise, my favorite part about Dogwood was the three-way tap, with still, sparkling, and ice cold water options. I love sparkling water. In fact, I love sparkling water so much, I've started to tire of it, and sometimes I choose still water.