This fortnight’s Pact Coffee delivery is Finca La Estrella, from Colombia.

They say:

Flavour: Milk Chocolate, Orange, Black Tea
Sweetness: Refined Sugar
Acidity: Citric (Orange)
Mouthfeel: Tea-like

We say:

Honestly, it tastes like goddamned coffee. Good goddamned coffee.

Maybe my tastebuds, after years of Twiglet abuse, have been rendered useless to all but the strongest, most over-powering flavours. Maybe I got a duff bag of coffee this fortnight. Or maybe, just maybe, the people who write these descriptions are just making shit up.

In my many years, I’ve gorged on plenty of milk chocolate. I’ve eaten an excellent sufficiency of oranges. I’ve drunk oceans of tea. And I can quite categorically say that this fortnight’s coffee tastes not one goddamn jot like any of those. Neither is its mouthfeel¹ tea-like. It’s coffee-like. Because it’s coffee.

All of this hand-wavy bullshit is really annoying. Pact ship some really really good coffee. Finca La Estrella is one of those coffees. It’s delicious, without the need to project some spurious, nonsensical flavours upon it that are just plain rubbish.

So sign up to Pact. Drink their delicious coffee. And just plain ignore their marketing blurb.