Peet's Light Roast, Sun Catcher Coffee

For this Coffee tasting I tried Peet’s, light roast, Sun Catcher coffee. I often search for coffees that are more distinctive than contemporary, familiar flavors. This coffee seems to be commercially evasive (IMO). The package reads, “strawberry jam, citrus, and honeysuckle.” When I open the gourmet pouch and sniff, I shove my nose in to make sure I’m getting a good smell. The smell is good and unique. I think the honeysuckle and jam are new with the coffee scent; they create something I can’t describe.

I brew the coffee and fill my cup. When I taste it unsweetened, I get a good, strong, coffee flavor with a light presence on my tongue. There is something going on here. The back flavor of citrus I have become familiar with, it seems to be a redeeming quality in the gourmet coffee market. The honeysuckle piques my interest, it is not strong or defining, but it is there. I like it. Strawberry jam? I don’t taste it. There does seem to be a hint at sweetness. There seems to be an abstractedness that needs fulfillment.

I pour another cup and add sweetener. The first drink is a blast of flavor; it throws me aback. What do we have here? It is like my taste buds are slapped with two fat slices of bread oozing with strawberry jam between them. It isn’t an overpowered Easter sweetness, but a mouth warming comfortable sweetness. It is verry good, another cup good. The honeysuckle takes a backseat to the strawberry jam and the full-flavored coffee experience of this brew leaves me with a pleasurable surprise. I simply lay back in my chair and watch the morning news without the sinical bite of the real world pulling at my conscious.

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