My local cafe, Necessary & Sufficient, sells Olympia Coffee, which is an interesting choice given I'd never heard of nor seen this roaster before. I have not seen everything but it is not a famous roaster per say, just a mildly notable one, most likely. They have their breakfast blend (which I drank) and they have single origins on the bar but I am not sure if they will make a pour over for you. Even if they did, I have a new no-pour-over policy as a result of a bad pour over and good cup of drip.
I was meeting someone for the first time, so I just wanted a cup of plain old coffee, and this did the trick. I asked the barista to fill the cup, which he did, although he filled it literally to the brim so it spilled everywhere. I got what I wanted, I guess.
The coffee was good. I thought it was sweet but not altogether too immensely vibrant. Which is okay. Olympia calls it Medium-Dark on the bag, which I think is perhaps uncharitable given this was not really a dark roast at all. I guess this is a Seattle roaster, so customers have different expectations over there.
I noticed they had this thing listed on their site, "Agtron Roast Color Meter Ground Reading." I looked into this, and found that there is a scale of coffee roast colors. This coffee was marked at 66. As far as I can tell, roasters like Prodigal or Sey roast very lightly, sometimes with a score of 80 or something like that. Higher means lighter, and darker means lower. Pure carbon char is 0. These numbers are based on the Agtron machine's gourmet scale. That machine costs between ten and twenty thousand dollars.
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