Lovely tuesday evening, all!
This is a Mahogany medium dark roast by Caribou Coffee, the second largest coffee retailer in the world next to Starbucks. Caribou takes pride in its pure green coffee beans. Not literally of course. What I mean is they are extremely pro-coffee grower relationships and pro-environment.
If you've been keeping up with the times recently regarding our precious bean, the coffee belt or bean belt (the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, ultimate resource for coffee, and the only place where the atmosphere and terrain is just right to grow it) is getting smaller. This means coffee, specifically wild Arabica, is going extinct. The cause, you guessed it, global warming. Now for people like you and me this is extremely disheartening and downright frightening. However, if it is any consolation, humanity IS taking some measures to save coffee. One example being Caribou. Caribou is committed to saving the bean, along with other environmental needs (rainforests, energy efficiency, etc.) and collectively, all of us coffee drinkers and our sanity.
Well I think I've thoroughly bummed you out. Now onto the good stuff. As soon as a smelled the beans, I knew this was going to be a good cup. My intuition spot on. The fact that it is not completely dark might spark some of your interests.This blend is so smooth and woody. It makes me almost nostalgic. I highly recommend this as a more wintry blend. Sitting by a fireplace and getting all cozy is also highly suggested. The robustness is just enough to make you want to cuddle up and read something. Strength surprisingly played a bigger role than I expected, as it is quite intense, but not without being well-bodied. My only complaint is that I wish it had been slightly sweeter.
Overall, extremely uplifting 9/10.
Buy the beans!
