A lot of times people list off all these flavours in coffee... Often times I don't quite get it, or if I do it seems to be less amazing than the description.
Well today I had a, "oh I get it" moment.
It was from beans from Café Grumpy in New York - Novo Roasted Aricha Espresso (SO) Yirgacheffe.
Made a double ristretto, had a taste, and then a flavour hit me that I don't think I'd had before. I couldn't place it initially, so I had to go back for another. What did it remind me of? You know those Belgian beers which are made with fruit mascerated into them - like Fruli (strawberry) or a Kriek (cherry) beer - it reminded me of the combination of the dry, bitter hops, with the sweet fruit.
It's also got me thinking, I buy these amazing green beans from Steve, but I'm not getting anywhere near the best out of them. Currently have an iRoast, which isn't great, but the real problem is I'm not an experienced roaster. I could carry on doing home roasts every week for years, and I'll still never learn to appreciate the nuances of "proper" coffee roasting.