The question new customers often ask is "which of your coffees do you think I'll like the best?"
I'll typically respond by asking two questions:
- How do you drink your coffee? With or without milk?
- What sort of flavours do you like? Do you prefer the flavours of nuts, chocolate, caramels... or do you find fruit flavours - berries, currants, stone fruit - more enticing?
If you like milk with your coffee then I'll suggest one of the four blends. The Croydon Blend is Garage Roasters' most popular coffee and represents a great mixture of flavour and texture components with Brazilian beans providing the nuts/chocolates/caramels, Indonesian beans adding a viscous texture and savoury notes, and finally Ethiopian beans contributing an exotic note with natural process ferment characters shining through with flavour notes of berries. The Summer Hill Blend has more of the nuts/chocolates/caramels arising from both Brazilian and Colombian beans with a lifted brightness provided by beans from Guatemala. The Ashfield Blend is the most traditional of the coffees that Garage Roasters produces. It's our take on a classic Italian style roast but without the Robusta (I don't want to add burnt rubber characters to the flavour profile of any coffees coming from this roastery!). Out of Africa is the outlier in the blend section, it is a strongly fruit driven coffee with a mixture of both natural and washed process coffees and is for people who enjoy milk-based coffees with elements of berry/currant/stone fruit flavours or for those who prefer their coffees black.
If you drink your coffee without milk then I suggest a number of different coffees. The Single Origin Espresso varies week to week and tends to be either a natural process Ethiopian, resplendent with wonderful berry/currant ferment character, or a washed process Kenyan with clean bright currant flavours. Coffee Prototypers is a coffee that I'm particularly excited about with a different experimental coffee coming out each month testing the boundaries of what you expect from your morning beverage. Coffees from Yemen (the Yemen Haraaz and Mokha Java Blend) take you back to the very dawn of coffee history. And the Colombian La Riviera Nitro Maceration is Garage Roasters' most edgy coffee which will amaze you with the aroma and flavour of honeydew melon at all stages of coffee making - whole bean, ground, and in the cup!
All of our coffees work well either with milk or without, however, in my experience, the primer above has been helpful for many customers.
I hope you all enjoy a wonderful New Year's Eve!
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