Episode 69 on Monday the 8th of March 2010 UKBC Blend

Absolutely wonderful coffee blend. I immediately recognised the Brazilian component.

Cup I made in Cona was slightly more aromatic and favour-filled than later cup made in Aeropress but both top drawer.

I have ordered some of the Indonesian to give it a taste. Fascinating! Must look for the bananas.

I’m also beginning to feel more confident about my roasting abilities.

Another really interesting video. Well done!

Steve,

This has gone down an absolute storm this week in the shop with my coffee club members. Normally I tell people about the crazy roaster and his ‘big peaches’ but now i have steadly moved from talking about ‘big beans’ a couple of weeks ago to being positivly over excited about ‘big green bananas’ in this weeks imm. Well done John on the win and well done steve on generally nailling this in my mug thing every week!

Was interested to hear what Gordon was saying with regards to the coffee scene in Australia and how it’s exploded in the last few years. I’d like to add, since moving to the UK from New Zealand 10 years ago i was so surprised to find a serious lack of good independant coffee houses and it only seems like now that the UK is starting to ctach up! New Zealand started it’s coffee explosion about 15 or so years ago and i can remeber it getting better and better over the years as it progessed. And now even in the smallest shit kicking town (and there are a few of them) you can expect to get a decent coffee anywhere; although the old style 1950’s tea rooms still do exsist! My wife, who is english describes NZ as 1950’s Britain but i’m afraid we were ahead of the game in the coffee stakes which is surprising considing the UK’s geographical postion to the continent.

I’ll look forward to tasing the blend as i only ordered it today but…..AND IT PAINS ME TO SAY THIS…if an aussie has anything to do with it then it’s going to be good; coffee’s good down there too!

Great IMM yet again. This blend to me is just exactly what a blend should be – it takes a very distinctive component coffee (which I loved, but can imagine others might not have) and rounds it out into a crowd-pleaser, whilst retaining the uniqueness.

Oh, and belated congratulations to John!

I really feel I am missing out on this one. I get the green banana hit but its just not that pleasant. Leaves a dry after taste that disppoints me as I cannot share in the jubilation expressed by others. I appreacite that everyone is different, but it is always nice to “get it” and be part of the crew. Felling a bit lonely on this one.

Only tried as an espresson in normally very consistent Juar J5.

Frosty is still my all time favourite blend.

Anyway great for Has Bean to have a winner and congratulations all round

Great IMM. Loved, loved, loved the coffee.
The espresso was sweet and sticky – I agreed that I could taste molasses until I realised that I had never tried them, but I imagine they taste like this espresso!
As a Perky Peacock turbo-latte it was full of bananas.
Beautiful.