We have been trying to expand our coffee horizons by selecting one special blend each time we reorder our coffee from Beanstock Coffee Roasters. This month, they were featuring Ethiopian Amaro Gayo and it was an instant hit around the BostonZest office.
"This outstanding coffee is full-bodied and juicy with luscious notes of blueberry and blackberry, but it's best feature may well be that it is exported through Ethiopia's only female miller/exporter, Asnakech Thomas. Many social programs are in the works though support of this coffee including job creation, school creation and medical care. A high end coffee and certified organic."
- Smooth, rich, nice crema
- Penny likes it for her second cup in the morning after her favorite Black Fish Creek robust blend wakes her up for the day.
- Ed is a big fan of the flavor notes in Ethiopian coffees. His regular blend is Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. So, this falls right in his sweet spot.
- We're both happy that Beanstock tells us the story of the people they support so that we can enjoy the coffee knowing about the producers.
Here it is made into a cortado for Penny with equal amounts of steamed milk and espresso.
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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: ©2013 Penny Cherubino
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