Cafe Liegeois Subtil Coffee

Cafe Liegeois Subtil CoffeeThis one was picked up on a recent visit to the far flung corner of Belgium to visit the Miss's family. This one actually had the name of the area on it (Liege) so it was a no brainer to scoop up.. along with several crates of bowl-bashing beer from the oh-so puritanical monks out there who seem to be unable to brew anything weaker than a can of Special Brew. There's no such thing as a "Belgian Roast" for coffee, so this is kind of just the Belgian take on fancy flavoured coffee that we are kind of used to seeing all over the shelves here in the UK. It doesn't say much on the packet - other than mention the word Ethiopia. Its fruity this one - and by that we don't mean the usual lemon twang - this one is more like a mild blast of oranges. Bizarre, yes. And it makes a real nice change from the very similar tasting stuff we've had of recent weeks (all scoring 8/10 mind you). I could pick this one out again from a cast of thousands at a blind tasting - it's that distinctive. We'd highly recommend it - but to get some your going to have to join the next Panzer division on it's way to the Ardenne, as it looks like it doesn't exist anywhere else. 8/10

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I really wanted this to beat an 8/10 rating, of which there have been many recently... and at first the Liegeois seemed like it would. It ticked all the right boxes - a local brew, rich aroma and the first sips went down a treat. Slight fruity flavours with none of the usual sweetness that accompanies many of its contemporaries. After a few more gulps however things took a turn for the worse. The coffee seemed to leave a film around my teeth I'm still struggling to shake off, while the taste became a little one dimensional and flat. It is by no means a bad brew, and still beats a whole host of other coffees I've tried recently, it just didn't live up to the promise it showed in the beginning. Perhaps I'm being too harsh as I was expecting too much but then again I'm English and the World cup is on so what did you expect?