Are you a single origin or house blend drinker?
For those of you who donโt know, a house blend is coffee that comprise of multiple beans of different origins, which produces a flavor of combined features. It is the opposite of single origin that only comprise of a single type of beans with a specific location). So, which one do you like the most?
I personally prefer to drink single origin as I am in the phase of exploring different coffee. However, occasionally I drink house blends and even tried making my own blends. I get most of my international coffee beans from Starbucks with an exception of localโs coffee that I either get locally or buy online. My favorite international coffee would be from latin america in which Starbucks offers various of it.
From Starbucks itself, I like pike place roast that I always restock every now and then. But since pike place was not available, the other day I got a house blend from starbucks which is also a blend that comes from Latin America. Unlike Pike Place that said on the packaging smooth and balanced, House Blend Starbucks has a rich and lively tasting note.
The other day, they also offer merchandise for cheap and I got a starbucks mug for only 35 or around 3$ which they usually cost more. The beans that I got and the mug came inside a box that said, โEnjoy Perfect Cup of Coffee at Homeโ. I got a house blend and asked for a fine grind since I use my coffee machine instead of a v60 or even french press.
By now, I have tasted plenty of Starbucks beans from their blonde roast to their dark roast. Yet my favorite will be their medium roast. For me, anything within medium roast tastes just enough to get me through the day. The caffeine content is also not too high and not too low although the roast actually is just one of a few markers to determine the caffeine content.
๐๐ธ๐ ๐ญ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ผ ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ช๐ป๐ซ๐พ๐ฌ๐ด๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ธ๐พ๐ผ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ต๐ฎ๐ท๐ญ ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ต๐ต๐ผ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ?
Sniffing coffee and determining their aroma based on the flavor wheel has been one of my pastime hobbies. I want to really understand coffee just by its smell. I can tell you as much that itโs not easy especially when presented with similar notes of aroma. I use the flavor wheel from the book โ Home Barista by Simone Egger & Ruby Ashby ORRโ. According to their book aroma wheel, there are 3 bigger categories with 9 smaller categorization into 2 more rows of aroma categorization. For instance, House blend from Starbucks has โBrown Sugar; nutty;malt-like;toastโ aroma. Meanwhile pike roast has Carbony ;ash;burnt. Eitherway, I still like the pike place aroma more than the house blend aroma. When I smell the aroma of house blend, I can tell that it is going to have some acidic aftertaste which I often donโt like. From the aroma itself, I can tell that this is also often the beans thatโs used at starbucks with exception when they tell me that they use Sumatra or sometimes Colombian.
๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฝ ๐ญ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ผ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ช๐ป๐ซ๐พ๐ฌ๐ด๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ธ๐พ๐ผ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ต๐ฎ๐ท๐ญ ๐ฝ๐ช๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ?
Unlike pike place that has flavor notes of sweet mellow cocoa, house blend falls into sweet acidy with piquant flavor. Sweet in the wheel flavor according to the book has two more categories which are mellow and acidy. When adding stevia into the coffee, it just makes the coffee taste perfect. The same thing when I added a dash of milk, the aftertaste was still apparent. It was coffee with milk instead of milk with coffee.
When it comes to the mug, I was not expecting to get this mug. I always wanted a mug with the simple round starbucks logo. Although I kinda like the shape since I donโt have a mug with a shape like this one.
Overall the feeling of drinking this coffee was that it was energizing. I even think this is better than the breakfast blend that Starbucks has. If I were to rate them, pike place is numero uno, house blend comes second and the breakfast comes third.
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