Spring for Your Taste Buds

To be a coffee drinker is to be in touch with your taste buds. Those little sensors with which we have a reciprocal relationship as we constantly find innovative ways to serve and develop our palates as the pores of our taste buds dissolve the tastes we provide them and report back to us on how pleasing they are. And when it comes to coffee, the menu is infinite these days when it comes to choosing a new blend, a new quality, a new flavor, a new varietal, or a new seasonal roast.

Like the appropriation of when to eat pizza (never in the morning unless you’re getting off the red line in Rome on your way to work) or when to eat waffles (never for dinner especially with syrup!), there are appropriate and satisfying coffee choices depending on when they are consumed. Tailor-made flavors are roasted from coffee beans and selectively produced at various times of the year. Seasonal choices in coffee vary according to harvest seasons, optimal times to produce particular coffee blends and experiment with seasonal recipes.

Like fruits, vegetables, and beer, timing is everything when harvesting, roasting, and developing quality tasting products. With Spring upon us, we say good-bye to the cold weather, the frigid nights and holiday treats and welcome a revival in flavor in the form of more floral, honey, fruity, and tropical accents. Most winter blends cater to the chocolate trends of Christmas and New Years, commercializing the need for indulgence and sweet alternatives to the dampness, the dreary, and the need for warmth during the winter months.

The seasonal blends of the Spring tend to highlight the rebirth of brightness, sweetness, and fruitful balances by infusing coconuts, lemons, and other refreshing tasty and aromatic flavors. Your coffee drinking habits should reflect the environment in which you live, and to welcome the spring means relishing in longer days in the sun, frolicking in the meadows, and lighter moods, uplifted from the darkness that is winter. Light, less full-bodied coffee blends are a perfect way to embrace the new season and still be good to your taste buds because ever since you became a coffee drinker, you have to admit that they’ve been good to you.