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Congrats! Sounds like a great day :-)
Matt
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In my mouth the 'chocolate' isn't really chocolate but a dark smooth richness that I can also get with dark chocolate. People who aren't into coffee rarely describe it as chocolate, they just enjoy the difference from the over-extracted bitterness they are used to.
They tell me that the lighter roasts they get in many 'gourmet' coffee shops make their milk drinks taste sour, so they often get sour, bitter coffee! No wonder they drink instant. :-(
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Greg - the 'chocolate' note is one of the strangest things.. My original thought was that it was so over the top that I couldn't approach the coffee. While I do agree that it represents that deep smooth richness, it is so close to being exactly the chocolate flavour you get with, well, chocolate!
Quite a few people gave me face to face feedback on the coffee. The comments could pretty simply be summed up as: very smooth, very chocolatey and "not bitter". The last one kept coming back to me. My assumption was that they had only had coffee from places that didn't know (quite) what they were doing and had stale over extracted shots... But you could well be right - the lighter roasts many CSers prefer could well be seen as lacking smoothness and richness in milk based drinks along with a sour bitter edge.. Hmmm..
Mrs KJM was kind-of in that camp. She used to have a very weak milk coffee and complained that my standard coffees were "too strong". But now she is very selective about where she has a coffee! So this is clearly an educational problem!
So we need to crew the battlements!!
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*grins* So... are you going to charge them extra for the 'special' coffee next time? :lol: I doos nose my consumers...
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@Journeyman - I do see where you're coming from, but I am but a simple coffeesnob... So I couldn't possibly get them to part with more for the coffee... I already feel as though I'm asking an embarrassing amount per cup! Plus - you're assuming there *will* be a next time! My back is still reminding me that inappropriate work heights are...well...inappropriate!
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