Stephen
Interesting, quality coffees, but over all a bit disappointing
After my second six month club sequence, I'm afraid there were too few blends that caught my fancy to try another. Considering that I signed up for dark roast selections, there were only a couple that I would even call dark. I wasn't expecting that burnt flavor that some darks have, but I was hoping for that rich deep set of flavors one gets from some roasters. It almost seems that the roasters (and buyers from GoCoffeeGo), in trying to avoid the "charbucks" problem of some darks, have developed a taste for what I would call more of a medium type roast. They are good, complex coffees, but lacking in that rich hottom end, like a piano without the lower register of bass notes. One blend, though, I really liked was Henry's roaster. It was really tasty, deep, dark, without a burnt flavor. I wish all the others were more like it. It was the only one that even looked dark and oily out of the bag. I know this is all highly subjective stuff. But since the Henry's made the list, I wonder why all the others were so much lighter (not just in color). It was, incidently the only selection that was delivered as a full pound. So, GoCoffeeGo seems like a good company that deals in quality coffee. Their palates just seem calibrated differently than mine...considering medium roasts to be darks (a trend in the business I'm told). Of course, I'm not an expert, but for me the Henry's is the only of these coffees that I would actively seek out again.