As Arieanna wrote earlier we did a cupping when we visited Salt Spring Coffee. We tried five of their roasts plus a “guest” roast. I wish I had taken notes about the experience, it is hard to remember now what they tasted like. At least you get to see pictures of them. So here they are from light to dark:

Mexican

Peru

Canopy Bird

Ethiopian Yergacheffe

Roaster’s Special

It was great to try them in that order, to see how the acidity and flavour changed. And they were all pretty good, we took some Yergacheffe home and Tris got some Roaster’s Special.

The “guest” coffee I mentioned was a small sample of beans they had frm Japan. It was extremely nasty stuff, smelled like burnt rubber and tar and tasted horrible, the after-taste lasted for a while. Arieanna and Tris refused to try it after smelling it. You can see from the pictures below how uneven the roasting is, some beans where completely charred. I don’t know if this is typical of the stuff they get in Japan, but it was an interesting experience to compare a really bad roast with some pretty good ones.

Japan