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Other reviews in this series: Berani (light roast) | Syndicate (medium roast) Cafetada Coffee Co. is a coffee brand located in Orlando, Florida and, according to their website, Cafetada is a Spanish word for a coffee gathering that has a purpose. In any case, Cafetada sent me three of their coffees to try out, the Berani light roast, Syndicate medium roast, which is their flagship coffee, and this Doer’s Place, which is their dark roast. I wondered just how dark this sucker was going to be because the Berani was nudging up to second crack as the light roast and Syndicate was into second crack, so I knew this one would be really dark! The fact remains that a lot of coffee drinkers enjoy a dark roast, and you’ll see this reflected in the trend in specialty coffee that the-lighter-the-better Third Wave roasters are all roasting a bit darker and most are putting a “darker roast” on the menu.

This time I’m looking at Pammel Park’s Kenya Embu AA, a treat for both Kenyan coffee aficionados and especially people who may be intimidated by trying this “King of Coffee. I’ve been super impressed with the coffees I’ve been enjoying from Pammel Park Coffee Co. Pammel Park was started by Matt and Naomi Upton in 2018. This morning I’m taking a peek of Pammel Park’s Kenya Embu AA. As expected, there is a lot of sweetness and some darker caramelization going on here, and I’m not getting that bright, sparkling, pithy, big grapefruit/citrus blast of acidity that is the classic Kenyan profile.

March’s MyCoffeePub subscription dropped last week and it’s another fresh, seasonal offering from the excellent Sunergos Coffee in Louisville, Kentucky. Sunergos Coffee has provided March’s MyCoffeePub subscribers with their Peru Cajamarca. It’s less apparent than the apple notes, that I find very commonly in Peruvian coffee, but it’s certainly there. This coffee finishes out sweet and there’s a super long aftertaste with apple notes, cocoa, nuts.

Daterra has been researching, growing and adapting Laurina in various plots on their estate for 12 years and because of the finicky nature of this variety, the prices for Laurina microlots are high. In 2018, their highest-priced lot was for a Laurina that went for $141.10/pound, and Emi Fukahori won the 2018 Brewers Cup with a Daterra-grown Laurina, too. The Barn scored two lots of Laurina this year, one natural and one washed, and they are roasting the natural one now and will release the washed version later in the year. There are a whole lot of ways to accomplish that process and two of the primary ways are “washing” (wet process) and “natural” (dry process).