Stratton Brothers Coffee
KO Kilimanjaro
ORIGIN: Tanzania
VARIETAL: Arabica (Peaberry)
PROCESS: ???
ROAST: Medium-Dark
BREW METHOD: Moka
WEBSITE: strattonbrotherscoffee.com
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A brew more bitter than your ex. Smoky, charcoal-y. Burnt rubber-ish till the cup cools. Overtones of charred wood and dark chocolate shavings. Undertones and slurps are all scorched earth. Barnyard. Stiff leather builds on the rather astringent finish. Moderate length, there.
Imbalanced well-toward bitter & away from sweetness, particularly. Deeply nuanced in the way a pile-driver is meant to plant the top of a wrestler's head into the canvas. Lots of corners on the immediate sip, but the notes do round-out upon settling to the palate in a somewhat acidic manner... a lemony pith tick.
The aroma is that of a blacktop road in August. No real complexities, but the intent here appears clear -- a straight forward get 'er done kick in the pearly-whites. I'd rather like this with a pepper-loaded Nicaraguan cigar, with which it shares many characteristics.
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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