Our coffee roaster Intelligentsia has been turning out some great coffees for us to enjoy during the two years we’ve been open, and we were really pleased to see them move away from so many blends and really put the focus on single origin (SO) coffees.
During that time, however, our primary espresso blend has been the Black Cat. Sure we occasionally had the Kid-O Organic espresso blend, but Black Cat has always been our favorite. Now Intelli is apparently going to be roasting some of these wonderful SO’s for espresso.
The Black Cat Project is something new and exciting that Intelli has announced, and we’re pumped about what it will mean for our espresso program. If you check out the website, you’ll see in the mission that “espresso brewing is still coffee brewing and that only the best coffees can make the best espressos”. Kyle Glanville won the USBC with an espresso based on the Finca Matalapa coffee (which we will have soon), so there is definitely something to that!
Anyway, first up is the Black Cat Anjilanaka- this is such a great coffee brewed the traditional way that we can’t wait to see what it’s like as espresso. We hope to have it on the bar by next weekend after we get it in and have a chance to play around with it. This should be a regular feature and perhaps someday we’ll be able to offer a daily SO espresso. NICE!
