Hello,
I’ve always been a coffee drinker.
I need to brew my own coffee in the mornings before i go to work. It has to be made fresh! Freshly ground beans, fresh hot water and all that stuff.
I used to grind them all by hand, but it takes up too much time, so I invested in a decent electric burr grinder. I used to do drip coffee but that, too, takes up too much time. Time is a luxury in the mornings ain’t I right? So I switched to an Aeropress.
Then now its all about the beans. Well I’m all for value for money, so normal days I would use IKEA beans. They were decent and cheap. So its always in my hopper. And for anything exotic, I would have to go manual with my trusty Porlex grinder.
Claire got this from the mail, its a small bag of beans. So it goes to the guru between the 2 of us, yours truly, but of course.
Its a bag of quality I must say, boxed in a classy tiffany blue box, Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee by Hayman Coffee. Mail order coffee is getting some love nowadays, with the World shrinking at an astounding speed, we pay for shipping and we can have the World at our doorstep. Here we have London in our mailbox with erm… Jamaican beans.
Its packaged so nicely, its impolite to not try it immediately, so I dug out my grinder and prep the operation in my kitchen.
Once I cut the bag, the aroma instantly filled my kitchen. Such a profound aroma it screams quality in my ears. Judging from my nose, I’m not sure if it will be too strong for the evening so I didn’t fill my little grinder to the brim.
And with the water on the kettle, I grind away to unleash the full potential in a slightly finer than ‘filter’ grind. Sorry I got too excited with my coffee I went straight to the pouring.
Here you can see the little bit of crema while it soaks in the Aeropress. And there you have it, after some muscling with the plunger thing, we have our liquid black gold in a cup.
Let me go on to the taste shall we. I’m no coffee connoisseur, I’ll do my best..
Jamaican Blue Mountain is said to be one of the best sought-after coffees in the world. And some googling tells me Hayman is the only place to get them in Nespresso capsules.
Well firstly, the coffee presents with a caramel colour as you can see the brownish glow around the inside edges of my cup.
It has good velvety crema as seen on my Aeropress pic, note that this is more of a pour over method instead of an espresso machine where crema is more generous.
The body of the coffee is generally light despite its looks, its acidic with chocoloatey notes. The aroma is sweet with a hint of nutty aroma.
Alright people, reading my tasting notes is not going to do you any favours. You people need to head to Hayman‘s and order yourself a bag of them. They have other types of coffees too so if you know your coffee, you should know what you’re getting into.
As for me? I’m gonna go enjoy my cuppa in comfort.
Simon: Out.
