^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.
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