Today Bianca and I wanted to do something fun in the afternoon.
We went to Rotterdam by car and decided to give @fabrews a call on the way there to see if he was up to something.
He had this cool idea to visit a coffee bar he wanted to go to for a very long time.
It's a place in Rotterdam where they roast their coffee in-house. Pretty cool.
I picked him and his almost future wife Camilla up from their apartment in Rotterdam and we went to the coffee bar.
Now to establish a baseline I want to show the machine I use every day to make coffee.
I had this machine for about 4 years and bought it second-hand from the Dutch eBay (called marktplaats).
It's been very trustworthy and makes filter coffee the way I like. Simple yet strong.
Upon entering the coffee place you see a machine they use to roast the coffee. They also have this huge grinder.
On the floor there are many huge bags filled with coffee. It's also the first time I think I ever have seen unroasted coffee in my life.
Behind the bar they have several machines to make coffee in different ways. Including filter coffee! Because this is the way I'm most familiar with I decided to go with this.
I ordered the 'test plank'. Basically 3 types of filter coffee in 3 cups. 2 roasts from Kenia and 1 from Ethiopia.
The one thing I found most striking about the coffee from these two African countries was the flavor. I'm used to earthy dark coffee flavor and this coffee was way more flowery and herby flavor. Very delicious but my brain couldn't wrap its head around the fact it was coffee. It appears I have missed out on a whole range of coffee flavor I didn't even know existed. I want to explore this further now.
To finish off I had a cappuccino made from a Brazilian roast. This was a way more familiar flavor and probably the best cup of coffee I had this year. But less exciting and unfamiliar than the other 3.
I love trying new food and drinks and Fabio certainly surprised me today! I had a fantastic afternoon with my friends!
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