Yes, and I hate it. I only buy beans from Italian markets. Italians and the French know how to make coffee. Lavazza or Caffe Vergnano beans FTW. Dark, sweaty beans.Anyone else notice how a lot of dark roasts nowadays look like medium roasts, and mediums look like light roasts? What's with the whole hipster under roasted coffee trend?
In Santa Cruz there was a roaster called North Coast Coffee, they were the only beans I would buy there. Fucking dammit they were good.
Home - North Coast Roasting Company
northcoastroasting.com
It was really funny, at the Barolo/Barbaresco event on Friday all the Italian winemakers and their entourages were complaining about the state of coffee in America. "Sour" was a word heard most often. "I do not enjoy sour coffee."