Roast Notes: Tanzania from Printer's Row

I’m very lucky that the closest coffee roastery to me specializes in light roasts, my favorites. I know Printer’s Row Coffee Co.’s Tanzania Kilimanjaro beans as “the bag with the yellow label,” I get their beans so often without thinking.

Smelling the beans and the resulting grind, I smell grass and raspberries. It’s very flowery, almost wearable as a perfume.

Brewed into the Chemex and sipped as I watched the sun drip its way down our walls in the early Spring morning, I taste more grass, black cherry, and almonds. I love light roasts.

The flavors aren’t quite bitter, but they dry out my tongue. It reminds me of the taste and dryness of water immediately leaving my mouth as we hiked the Grand Canyon in desert heat. The light roast bites on the roof of my mouth and then makes my cheeks clench a bit as the tart kicks in. It’s a good bite, and leaves me smiling.