It's been a while...

It's been a bit, but we've been sampling a few different coffees over the past few weeks.

The standout is one that is almost gone from Intelligentsia, but worth mentioning. If you are near a shop and can grab some, do. You will thank me for it later.

Los Inmortales, El Salvador.

Intelligentsia's selectors and roasters have once again delivered an outstanding bean.

Like previous choices it has a very strong but good smell from opening the bag through grinding and brewing.

The coffee is described by Intelli as being "transparent". I call it smooth. It's mellow with a kind of brown sugar edge throughout the whole experience. It actually develops more flavor as it cools down. For a while it was the only iced coffee offered at the Venice shop. And for good reason. This coffee is almost devoid of bitter, with a slight roasted taste on the back end. No acidity to speak of.

I created Lotto a cold brew of it using the aeropress yesterday, and he said it was mellow.
I'll add my cold brew description as a comment to this entry.

I usually like my coffee hot, when it cools down I add hot water to get it back up to drinking temperature. But on this one I started to drink some that was lukewarm, and I ended up draining the rest of the cup, over half of it, in a few seconds. It was really good.