Thursday, December 19, 2019

NerdFuel Coffee Moonless Night in Review

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”


NerdFuel Coffee
Moonless Night

ORIGIN: Central & South American
VARIETAL: Arabica

PROCESS: Undisclosed
ROAST: Dark (French Roast)
BREW METHOD: French Press

WEBSITE: nerdfuel.com

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NOTES:
In my dang house, you brew the FREEDOM roast coffee in a FREEDOM press. What you then get, I shall now relate. yw // Silky smooth & a tick starchy. Sits inky in the cup under a quickly dissipating bloom. Dark not dense; rather thinned watery around the rim. Decent sheen. Emilio not Charlie. (Sheen joke.) 

Leathery aroma, faintly. Minimal bouquet. Dusty, some. Sips to a bit of straw, a bit of "baggy." Sinewy savory peppery hardwood buried in earth melange, broadly. Slight cocoa. Roasty-toasty. Hint of licorice. Finish involves a bit of muted spice rack on oily leather. Slurps to the tune of more cocoa & starch.

Nicely smooth, as noted, but lacking in fullness/richness. Balanced but simply-so due to not having a lot of balls in the air. Not complex and (surprisingly) not nuanced for all its depth. What's left is a nice cup, tho. Good for a goes down easy day starter. If I had to guess, there is a bit of too much age on these pre-ground beans. Serviceable, yes. Spectacular, no. Drinkable as fuck, sure. Particularly while getting (other) shit done.

FINAL GRADE: B-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

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