Polish Coffee Talk

This afternoon we received an awesome visit from Lukasz Jura, a coffee guru form Warsaw (and winner of the 2009 AeroPress Championships). Luckily, we had just finished pressing a fresh pot of Mundo Novo just moments before he walked in the door. (Not perfect since it was a press of blade-ground coffee :) We talked about specialty coffee in general and in Poland for about three hours over coffee and lunch. Trust me, when you are a nerd, this is not hard. He confirmed what we had suspected: there are no local roasters to be had in Poznan. Oh well. Saw that one coming. In the meantime, he left us with two half-kilos of his proprietary espresso blend (roasted in Norway). He mentioned something about a blueberry note in the beans over lunch, so I was anxious to pull some shots. Fast-forward to 7pm. Open the bag of beans and it was like-WHAM! Blueberries! But despite pulling 10 sets of shots, i could not reproduce that gorgeous smell in the cup...darn. Even though Lukasz recommended against it, we french-pressed the coffee afterwards. (sh! don't tell!) Despite the heavy body from the press, I loved the blueberry and cocoa notes :) Definitely planning to work with these beans more this week. I'll let you know how it goes.