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Archive for September, 2008
Deanna Mustard just (as of last Friday) officially began her leave of maternity absence. She’s on all of our minds and most definitely embedded in our hearts. This pic was taken by D. Moody at our year anniversary party. The prize Deanna’s holding was for her second-place finish in our latte-art smackdown. Yeah, she can still throw down.
In: Intelli grey cycling caps (for real!), delicious El Salvador Los Inmortales
Still In:
Esmeralda (mmmmmmmmm.. new roast is even better), Kenya Gaturiri Auction Lot, http://deaton.wordpress.com/ (pulled a bar shift today for the first time in months)
Out: Flecha Roja de Costa Rica (you can still get the red arrow mugs and ts, though), Itzamna de Guatemala
^hitting the cycle at Ritual.
S.F. was booming with coffee professionals from everywhere and the hub, our coffee pavilion, was located at Fort Mason.
The focus of the coffee pavilion was largely to educate tasters on coffee regions, varietals, and processing. The tastings included both flights of brewed coffees (Clovered) and single-origin shots. To make this all happen, roasters from around the country brought coffees they deemed especially special in one way or another.
As single-origin espresso, Intelligentsia featured:
-the pulped natural Panama coffee that Kyle took to the WBC
(amazingly orange-cream sweet; plush marmalade-butter)
This coffee introduced many espresso novices to the term ‘pulp natural,’ and engaged them with coffee-processing and scale of specialty coffee purchases. The sentence, ‘experiment for this farm,’ sparked quite an interest in many tasters.
-our Kenya Gaturiri Auction Lot
(bright and deep; bursting with purple grape flavors)
-La Tortuga Micro-Lot Galapagito
(raspberry-plum citrus, milk-chocolate finish)
For brewed coffee, we featured the above coffees, as well as our Guatemala Itzamna Direct Trade coffee.
It was an awesome event on all fronts.
Tonx recaps SFN 08 and so does L.C. twitchy and they have flickr accounts too.
Back again is Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda, Geisha Jaramillo Especial (buy online). This coffee is amazingly delicate and floral: distinctly jasmine and honeylike, with crisp citrus, light chocolate, and lavender notes. We’re serving 12 ounce Clover brews for the reasonable price of $7. Also new to our Autumn menu is El Otono Blend, consisting of part Kenya Gaturiri Auction Lot and part Direct Trade Guatemala Itzamna. Otono is balanced and somewhat spicy, with an apple-pear acidity. The sort of sentiments that this coffee conjurs will be as close to a pumpkin-spice beverage you’ll get at Intelli.silverlake. See you soon,
