Re: Zambian Coffee

On Sep 8, 12:42 pm, Bob Ross <bobross...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not too long ago I purchased a 5 lb bag of Zambian green beans. I
hadn't read much about Zambian coffee but thought I would give it a try.

I like it! I am partial to East African coffees; probably because I
spend two years in Tanzania in the mid 1960's.

Anyone else tried Zambian coffee. Opinions?

...The high cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

R.J.(Bob) Ross
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA

I've variously sampled Africans from some of these, what I have
available locally. I've had to go to Sumatra Mandheling Balige
Estate, though, to get (something of) "wild and funky" niche flavors
outside the traditional aromas -- outside, shall we say, of a
characteristic from gourmet SO coffees as a whole. (Of course,
gourmet would have to be a conditional predicate at prices I'm
paying). An association beyond blended Mocha-Java from Red Sea and
East Indies for a monsoon-stored, southern India example, (
http://www.ccmcoffee.com/index.php?cPath=21 ), albeit a latter example
apparently lacking in its stores at present. Unless reason is I
haven't a discrete enough palate to make subtler distinctions across
what I've been given to sample. Also, I suspect these people keep
different stock for different purposes. When ordering 5# increments
of Sumatra Mandheling there was a marked difference in bean appearance
to my last 25# order -- from 5# selections, a "fancier" bean at a
lesser quantity: being a brighter, greener, and possibly drier by
appearances, to 25# quantities (though thankfully, at a taste to me,
the 25# order is no less enjoyable).

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe
Zambia Terranova Estate AA
Zimbabwe AA -Salimba Estate
Kenya AA (fancy)
Yemen Mocha - Matari
Uganda Bugishu AA
.