This afternoon I sat in Penny University for close to 2 hours – unintentionally, I lost track of time being surrounded by people so passionate about the beautiful dark liquid.

Although the coffee was a bit over-extracted today (problems due to the hot weather resulting in difficulty reducing the temperature of the lower bowl of the syphon, I think) the Square Mile Yirgacheffe is now quite possibly nearing the top of my favourties list – despite having disliked it the very first time I tried it through the syphon a few weeks ago.  Perhaps it is the summertime affecting my tastes, leaning them toward the lighter brighter coffee, or perhaps merely the fact that I had grown so accustomed to well-rounded coffees with more of the rich chocolate notes, that the yirgacheffe was at first out of my comfort zone.   Read the rest of this entry »