Who is the Foodie? It doesn’t really matter. Bacon is god. Wine cures anything. If you believe those two facts, then we’re going to get on fine. This means you have discovered the power of food to make life better. This knowledge is imperative to the art of living well.Blue Mountain Coffee.
Attending a coffee tasting is quite similar to a wine tasting. One big difference however, is at the end of a coffee tasting you don’t have red teeth, unlimited courage and a strange urge to tackle the winemaker’s dog and then take a nap in the car. Rather the opposite, actually. At the end of a coffee tasting you experience lift off. Boom! Suddenly you’re highly caffeinated and everything is in speed mode. Youfeelikeyoucandoanything! Andyouhavetodoitrightnow! YouknowwhatImean? Itsprettyawesome!
Well, that high is still with me now as I write this post about the Blue Mountain coffee tasting at Truth Coffee this morning. If you haven’t been to Truth then you haven’t been to one of Cape Town’s coffee meccas. Run by David Donde aka Mr Coffee and home to his modernized 1962 cast iron coffee roaster, this place roasts coffee, properly. That’s even their motto. This morning was one of a few tastings they’re doing to show off this new specialty coffee- wait, calling it a coffee is like calling the Ferrari F1 racing car simply a car. This stuff is the business.
The name comes from the fact that when you drink two cups everything around you turns blue and you can climb any mountain. No, that’s nonsense. The name comes from the fact that it’s grown in the Blue Mountains in Jamaica. It’s very expensive, not because some goat or other animal ate it and they had to wash it out of their shit (see here for that), but simply because it’s super high quality, there is little supply and there is big demand. Mostly from the Japanese. One thinks this might have something to do with the fact that they’re the only people that can afford it. It costs R1,000 per kilogram of unroasted beans. A cup will set you back R60. Think how much Ricoffy you can buy for that? (That was a test, and if you thought about how much Ricoffy you’d buy, you failed.)
Anyways, the coffee is pretty awesome. We tasted it compared to a popular international coffee brand, whose name I don’t want to mention but has something to do with stars and antelope, and it really snuffed it. Blue Mountain is full bodied, full flavoured with mellow acidity. You could drink it daily, if you could afford it. But it makes a nice treat. Drink it as you would your usual coffee, as we did after the tasting, and you’ll really appreciate the difference. Drink three and you’ll find your hands shaking and your legs have a mind of their own, bouncing under the table. This stuff could put the recreational pharmaceutical business into recession. Boom! Lift off! Yihaaaaaaaaaa!
ps – The Foodie holds Truth Coffee responsible for his actions after the tasting, especially the dancing in my car bit.
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Although exorbitantly expensive ..Blue Mountain truly is delicious . Thanks again David D for the tasting.
May I use this from now on: “A cup will set you back R60. Think how much Ricoffy you can buy for that? (That was a test, and if you thought about how much Ricoffy you’d buy, you failed.)” Love that. Really. May i? Please? Say yes and you can get another cup of the good stuff….
May I use this from now on?:
“A cup will set you back R60. Think how much Ricoffy you can buy for that? (That was a test, and if you thought about how much Ricoffy you’d buy, you failed.)”
Love that. Really.
May i? Please? Say yes and you can get another cup of the good stuff….
Absolutely, use away!
Was an awesome cuppa Dave! Tx