organic coffee: rich flavour, a little strong

Coffee: Fair Trade & Organic Island Reserve Dark
Rating: @@@@
Found: Casa Acoreana & Luis Coffee Stop, Kensington Market

This coffee is darker and stronger than the Rainforest blend from yesterday. Island Reserve Dark is a mid-week coffee, harsher and with a kick that may help get you over the humpday blahs. Eminently drinkable, it’s a pale substitute for you espresso drinkers and yet a bit on the concentrated side for medium-roast blend palates.

You can drink it on an empty stomach, but you might want to add milk and sugar; you’re also probably going to need something food-like to follow it up with within an hour or two of ingesting the liquid caffeinated goodness.

Definitely worth trying. If I hadn’t had the Rainforest blend and loved it, I would probably be reasonably content with this coffee on a daily basis.

Adventures in Organic Coffee

Coffee: Rainforest Alliance Peru Organic
Rating: @@@@@
Found: Casa Acoreana & Luis Coffee Stop, Kensington Market

Took the day off yesterday and went down to Kensington Market in the afternoon on a search for, among other things, some organic coffee. My favourite place is Casa Acoreana & Luis Coffee Stop, the spice and candy and coffee store at 235 Augusta Avenue (right on the corner).

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Day 1 in my quest for good organic coffee starts me off today with the Rainforest Alliance Peru Organic blend. I believe it’s also a Fair Trade coffee.

Yum. I’m definitely liking this.

The flavour is light (it’s definitely not an espresso type blend) and rich, with a slightly sweet roasted aftertaste. It’s a great morning coffee. Not as harsh as a much darker roast on an empty stomach, and very very smooth.

For context, I also take my coffee with organic rice milk (Presidents Choice Organics or YU brand) and organic sugar. We use a metal filter in a Cuisinart stainless steel drip coffee maker.

Originally posted July 19, 2008 here.

Organic Coffee: Rich Flavour, A Little Strong

Coffee: Fair Trade & Organic Island Reserve Dark
Rating: @@@@
Found: Casa Acoreana & Luis Coffee Stop, Kensington Market

This coffee is darker and stronger than the Rainforest blend from yesterday. Island Reserve Dark is a mid-week coffee, harsher and with a kick that may help get you over the humpday blahs. Eminently drinkable, it’s a pale substitute for you espresso drinkers and yet a bit on the concentrated side for medium-roast blend palates.

You can drink it on an empty stomach, but you might want to add milk and sugar; you’re also probably going to need something food-like to follow it up with within an hour or two of ingesting the liquid caffeinated goodness.

Definitely worth trying. If I hadn’t had the Rainforest blend and loved it, I would probably be reasonably content with this coffee on a daily basis.

Adventures in Organic Coffee

Coffee: Rainforest Alliance Peru Organic
Rating: @@@@@
Found: Casa Acoreana & Luis Coffee Stop, Kensington Market

Took the day off yesterday and went down to Kensington Market in the afternoon on a search for, among other things, some organic coffee. My favourite place is Casa Acoreana & Luis Coffee Stop, the spice and candy and coffee store at 235 Augusta Avenue (right on the corner).
View Larger Map

Day 1 in my quest for good organic coffee starts me off today with the Rainforest Alliance Peru Organic blend. I believe it’s also a Fair Trade coffee.

Yum. I’m definitely liking this.

The flavour is light (it’s definitely not an espresso type blend) and rich, with a slightly sweet roasted aftertaste. It’s a great morning coffee. Not as harsh as a much darker roast on an empty stomach, and very very smooth.

For context, I also take my coffee with organic rice milk (Presidents Choice Organics or YU brand) and organic sugar. We use a metal filter in a Cuisinart stainless steel drip coffee maker.