holy cowpies!

got me some liberica.

yeah, it's costly costly costly. it's also holy-crap good! i roasted it to about FC+, but the bean size is highly variable and there's the always possible danger of my roaster being out of whack. the roast was highly uneven and i even had to throw out several dozen greenies.

thom says it's got a cowpie aroma, but i fortunately can't smell it. what i do smell is piles and piles of blueberries. this is not "hints of fruit" or "notes of berries". no, this is piles and piles of blueberries. not a thing subtle about them.

in the mouth, there are all kinds of other flavors. as it cools the blueberries assert themselves even more, and a dry-process nuttiness comes out. as it cools more, the thick body seems to thin out a bit and we get some tannin-y merlot flavors. a syrupy finish thickens on the back of the throat, like a slurpee. there's some unidentified funk swirling around in there, amidst the honey-syrup finish, the dry-process nuts, the blueberries, and the tannins. this is not a clean coffee and there is some funk.

this is truly the most complex coffee i've had, or at least it's a coffee that demanded so much of my attention that i noticed all its complexities.

too bad it's so fargen costly :(