Hair Raiser Coffee
Hair Raiser Blend
| Roaster Location: | Santa Barbara, California |
| Coffee Origin: | Not Disclosed |
| Roast Level: | Very Dark |
| Agtron: | 14/17 |
| Review Date: | February 2006 |
| Aroma: | 8 |
| Body: | 7 |
| Flavor: | 8 |
| Aftertaste: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
Smoky, deep-toned aroma with a tightly-knit complexity: cedar, flowers, pineapple, vanilla, semi-sweet chocolate. Simplifies a bit in the cup, but remains richly and roundly bittersweet with an impressive smoky rather than burned character and a tickle of pineapply fruit. The sweet, expansive finish reveals a slight touch of astringency but the semi-sweet chocolate and fruit notes linger agreeably.
Notes
This coffee accomplishes what I would have thought impossible: It preserves a remarkable richness, sweetness, and complexity at an absolute dead-end darkness of roast. By way of comparison, this coffee is twice as darkly roasted as Starbucks' espresso blend, typically considered very dark-roasted. The result is an unusual, perhaps unique, flavor profile. Hair Raiser Coffee, a wholesale/retail roaster located in the lovely city of Santa Barbara, presents its signature super-dark-roasted blend with verve and attitude: "Seriously strong yet sensuously smooth." Visit
Who Should Drink It
Voluptuous extremists.
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