I was supposed to meet up for coffee with a friend but it ended up being solo experience. This was the #4 on the Comet menu, so an expensive risk. Thankfully my cousin gave me $10, so this was a sponsored event. I'm really interested in washed coffee right now. I feel like natural coffee has sort of a curved edge that I am not a huge fan of, and I like more of the coffee taste.
This coffee tasted sweet. It had fruity notes. My wife says blackcurrant tastes something between a wild blueberry and a grape. This coffee certainly fit into that box very well.
Sometimes, I find that washed coffees have this sort of grainy flavor. I experienced it with this Honduras from Hyperion, although with that one, it was more intense. I have started to call this flavor "dirty," as the opposite of "clean." Clean coffee is very good and makes for easy drinking. Dirty coffee can be bothersome and difficult to drink.
This did not have a syrupy body, and no strong acidity. I chose it over a Colombian that would have certainly been more acidic. Comet definitely presents more sweet coffees over more acidic ones. They usually platform older roasters like George Howell, 49th Parallel, and Ritual. Sometimes I think about what coffee would have been like in 2006. Since we are moving to Chicago soon, I think about Intelligentsia often. Someone online said that Intelligentsia was cool in 1997 but now it is just boring. That is probably true for a cafe in the ground floor of the first skyscraper in the world. Regardless, Intelligentsia is a quality roaster I am excited to have as my "local" roaster.
Back to the above coffee. I liked it. I'd drink it again. It was a good experience. Comet was unfortunately too loud to focus on drinking coffee.
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