I have been realizing that when I have coffee, sometimes I get headaches and nausea. I did not understand why this was happening. It turns out that it happens when I have a lot of coffee, especially when I have a method that uses a lot of grounds. An 11g AeroPress has maybe 100mg of coffee. A 21-25g pourover can have twice that! This might not be the reason, but having too much caffeine is probably unhelpful.
This is the same origin as the one shot of espresso I had that sucked me in, except an anaerobic natural as compared to a plain old natural. An anaerobic natural process should be fruitier - and this one certainly was fruitier. When you open the bag you're greeted with a mushroom cloud of fermented tropical scent, as if they just gave you green coffee. It is so unlike any coffee I have ever had before. I liked it more as a pourover, where the fruitiness did less of a punch on the face (my experience with AeroPress) and felt more like a picnic basket spilled on my tongue. And what a vibrant picnic basket this was. This was not just red, or orange, or yellow, like coffee usually is. This was like a funky rainbow splattered everywhere and there's also a cafe nearby. I'm honestly scared to drink it again. I feel like there a coffee cherry dragon trapped in the bag and that when I take a sip, it will take my tongue with it.
*deep breath* This is a really good coffee. You cannot and will not forget about it after drinking it, either. As if you could. The tasting notes are frankly useless. Pomegranate? Candied lemon? They could have used the space on the bag to say this is like being pelted with soft, ripe tropical fruit. That would have been more accurate.
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