Coffee

5 star rating

March 5, 2008

Adam W. 127 reviews Send Message | Add to Friends

This isn't even coffee - it's pure gold!

This stuff shouldn't be classified as coffee - it is more like liquid gold. The first time I tried this coffee was like my first sexual experience - you just never knew it could possibly be that good.

I think trying this coffee compared to all other coffee like trying a $100 bottle of California Sangiovese when you spent th rest of your life drinking Franzia merlot out of a 5 liter box (that is pronounced mur-lot when it comes in a box by the way).

Now about the sustainable part - these guys go beyojd organic and even beyod fair trade. They do what they call "relationship coffee" meaning that they physically go to inspect any farm that they are going to buy coffee from to ensure that it lives up to their environmental and worker standards. And from then on, they have a continuing relationship with that grower.

Blue Bottle rocks my world!

Adam W.'s keywords: delicious, coffee, micro roasted, franzia, merlot

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5 star rating

May 23, 2007

Abendigo R. 286 reviews Send Message | Add to Friends

Fresh coffee ain't the Italian way

I have an Italian friend who thinks Blue Bottle is a joke. They have this rule where they won't sell their microroasted batches of coffee outside of 48 hours after it's been roasted. He may have a point. No one in Italy has ever heard of that and maybe for good reason.

However, I love this coffee. It's become very hip to like it, though, and so every cool new place in town is beginning to serve it. It's definitely potent and I can taste a ton of flavors in it. It's smooth and has a tiny bit of a bite, but mostly smooth. It goes down easy. Chez Panisse serves it, Zuni serves it, Bar Tartine serves it. A couple of guys started this company in a house in Oakland a few years back. A severely fresh cup of coffee, from a time-sensitive microroast point of view, may not be the Italian way (and believe me, I love the Italian way), but here in the ever-innovative Bay Area it's definitely an interesting (and delicious and very expensive at $20 per lb) coffee.

Abendigo R.'s keywords: blue bottle, coffee, organic, local, bay area, ecological, caffeine, roast

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5 star rating

November 11, 2006

Tara R. 1 review Send Message | Add to Friends

Best coffee

Sustain ably gathered, locally roasted and ecologically minded blue bottle coffee is the best. they even offer a place to pick up compost able coffee grinds

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