About a year and a half ago I put up a post about supporting your local coffee shop. There are hundreds of great little shops in Seattle, San Francisco, and Portland. There are probably many of them in your area too. This website can help you find them.
This morning I went to a local shop in Ballard that I’v always liked. It’s called Cupcake Royale because they specialize in fresh baked cupcakes of many flavors, and they are robot free! Their coffee has always been good, but today I had cup of coffee produced by a company that I’d never heard of before, Stumptown Coffee Roasters of Portland, Oregon.
The coffee they were serving was Ethiopia Misty Valley Idido (organic) and it was the best cup of coffee I’ve had in a long time. The person at the counter said it was her favorite because it had an intense blueberry flavor in it. I had to agree–it did have a kind of blueberry taste to it. It was also very aromatic and had a rich mouth-feel. Unfortunately, Cupcake Royale had sold every bag of that variety. I’ll have to go back another day to get some of that, but I did buy a bag of Rwanda Musasa (fair trade) that Stumptown describe as follows:
Beautiful, clean coffee as a result of washing stations built by a USAID/PEARL project which improved quality and price in a country devastated by genocide. Sweet chocolate, pineapple juice, myer lemon, and a lush floral character.
Visit their website and check out all the varieties of coffees they sell. Buy some, you won’t be disappointed.
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