Dancing Goats | the Eponymous Roast

I’m not a dark roast guy. It’s difficult for my palatte to rise above the basic characters of heavily roasted coffee. In some sense, that it the entire point of dark roast. Roasting dark allows you to cover defects in the beans and mow down any undesirable flavors.

At its best, dark roasting can be used highlight different flavors while covering overpowering vegtal or grassy notes often associated with washed process coffee, for example.

I first met Dancing Goats Coffee as Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters, out of Olympia, as supplied by the famous Darvill’s bookstore in downtown Eastsound, Orcas Island. Passing through again on business, I couldn’t help but pick up a bag of their now rebranded coffee.

Flavors that can shine through a dark roasting are present here in this Dancing Goat blend. Malty, toasted grain hits your nose, and baking spices were a nice surprise on the front end of the taste. The back end was certainly smooth enough.