This coffee has been roasted so lightly and the beans are so light beige that they look like fossilised remains swept up from the floor of Starbuck’s Pompeii branch. Each bean has a lot of “chaff” in the middle too – after we’d ground them we had to put them through a bloody threshing machine. […]
Adams and Russell Dominican Republic Barahona AA Coffee Read Post »
This coffee is the El Cheapo of the Ginerva range, and it’s 100% Robusta. That sounds like a bloody terrible combination and your coffee gagging reflex should be preparing itself for the worst. The beans are small and dark – and there’s not much more you can say about them than that. After grinding, you’ll […]
Ginerva Miscela Special Coffee Read Post »
Not renowned for it’s coffee, we were a bit nervous with this one. It even comes from a tea producing region of China. Maybe these are just counterfeit tea leaves? The beans, it has to be said, look horrific. They are small, beige and dusty. They look like little bits of old chocolate that have gone white […]
Adams and Russell China AA Washed Arabica Coffee Read Post »
Coffee from Australia? You’ve got to be joking mate! Well… apparently not, and this is the evidence. Now you may normally associate North Queensland with drinking gay halves of weak lager in a rowdy pub, getting shit faced on just three of them, pogo-ing around to the strains of Gone Daddy Gone and the Hoodoo […]
Adams and Russell Australia Basalt Blue Coffee Read Post »
Here at Judge Central we do like a nice Tanzanian and the higher it’s grown, the better. And you don’t get much higher than Kilimanjaro. This batch must have had Chris Moyle’s large frame stomping all over them as the beans are small. They’re also pale and dusty, but after a good grinding the smell […]
Adams and Russell Tanzania Kilimanjaro Coffee Read Post »
As gimmicks go, this is the pinnacle. A coffee with beans twice as strong as any other. The world’s strongest coffee. This is the kind of challenge that gets the Judge’s gavels quivering. Having read the article in The Metro, people were asking us if we’d tried it. We hadn’t, so got some sent over […]
