Taste Analysis by Isabella Vitaliano
Jaws dropped at the cupping table.
I’ve always been a big reader since I was a little kid. I have a lot of sci-fi and fantasy books under my belt, Harry Potter was a part of my childhood, and the magical butter beer was always a wonder. The books created an imprint, but the movies really solidified the foamy texture and deep butter color that creates such a delicious looking beverage. Imagination running wild on what it would really taste like. Of course, Universal Studios did their rendition on the beverage, and you can consume it at Harry Potter World in Orlando, FL (This is not an ad, but I did grow up there).
The first thing that struck me about this coffee was that is felt like something out of a fantasy novel, flavors you can only ever imagine to be in a beverage but in fact, you can experience it in this Colombia Java. Expensive peach candy, juicy fruit, jasmine, honeysuckle and boba are some of the core flavors in the coffee. On other brews there are notes of sweet watermelon, white pepper and caramel. Super sweet but with complex fruit flavors. It lies somewhere between fruit that is perfectly ripe, perfectly in season and candy tones of starburst, sour gummies or jolly ranchers. One of the tasting notes on the analysis roast was just ‘Wow!’.
At The Crown there is a nickname we have for a coffee that is extraordinary, ‘especial’. It means special in Spanish and the term was coined our head roaster, Doris. Maybe once or twice a year a coffee will have this honor. There is a certain profile that the team deeply appreciates; floral, clean, crisp, juicy. When talking about this Java, it’s no longer ‘Colombian Java’ it’s simply ‘especial’. Between us, when Doris first came up with this name, we would label jars using this name to have a secret stash.
Will you hide this one away in the roastery? Or generously serve it to your customers to experience what an imaginative and impressive coffee tastes like?
