Green Eyes, Ten Drops House Blend. 12oz. (Whole Bean)

Description

It was high time to make a recurring house blend that wasn’t exclusively about pleasing our dark roast fans.

Ten Drops has been a learning experience, first, and foremost, for us behind bar and for our customers. When we opened, there was no coffee roaster within 40 minutes in any direction (a whole lot more than 40 in most,) let alone a coffee roaster exploring origin flavors. When you start going down that path, right away you begin to worry “can I taste these things? Am I doing this wrong? Should I be able to taste more than I taste?” I imagine anyone reading this has had a coffee that had a flavor note in the description that you didn’t taste in the cup. Sometimes it’s because it’s subtle. Sometimes it’s because you didn’t pull that flavor in your extraction. Sometimes it just not there. It’s all okay, as long as the coffee tastes “good” to you.

So we have focused our attention on single origin coffees mostly. For a number of reasons, but for me, at the helm of the roaster, it’s been because “we haven’t tasted this yet, and that means people around here probably haven’t tasted this yet, and that’s interesting.” We’re literally exploring our planet and our humanity through coffee–one of the most awesome drinks.

Back to blending… when we blend coffees, we do it for a flavor reason. Sometimes roasters will do it to hit a price point and maximize value (this is just fine by me, as a consumer, if the coffee tastes great.) Sometimes roasters will do this to get rid of a coffee they need “gone.” (That’s fine, too, if the price is right.) We do it because we want a flavor that none of our individual coffees offer. Our Outsiders blend is us aiming for more roast-note, more bitterness, bigger body. Point Break was us playing with bright fruited and bright washed coffees. I forget what we were doing for Roadhouse. Yeah. We have done a bunch of Patrick Swayze themed coffees. Because we’re grown ups.

This coffee is more of a tribute to one of our favorite campy action movies, and to Victor Wong, James Hong, Kurt Russel, and John Carpenter. I could keep listing names.

This is the first blend that we intend to keep on regular rotation. The flavor goal here is blending the 3 vibes we like most at Ten Drops: Classic Cup, Bright and Clear, and Fruity. Right now the contents of this blend are Ethiopia, Honduras, and Uganda. That will change as seasonality dictates. “We take what we want and leave the rest, just like your salad bar.”

This coffee is a solid medium roast, makes a great espresso, and extracts nicely without any harshness in most methods. Super easy choice for a coffee, if you aren’t sure what to get.