I've not tried that one from Pilot, but I've tried "Strawberry Sundae" from Pirates of Coffee, which I've mentioned to you before (not affiliated with them - just a fan). Might have to do a side-by-side. There's also Fruit Bombe from them, as another weirdly fruity cup.

I haven't had this particular one, but I have had some high altitude Ethiopian beans that were extremely blueberry-forward. I wish I remember the exact region and varietal, it was years ago. Was delicious, though.

If you like Pilot might I also recommend Java Roasters out of Toronto or Bows and Arrows from out west. If you’re in Quebec, Nucleus is very very good with a Pilot-like variety of roasts and origins.

IMO the current cream of the crop of Canadian roasters is Quietly out of Stirling Ontario but that’s just my preference.

Getting Quietly’s coffee at home used be a challenge (limited stock releases once a week at 11am EST) but they’ve opened up their webstore releases to two days a week. Still very hard to grab their decaf - which is consistently some of the best specialty coffee decaf I’ve ever had.

Coffee’s an interesting lens for how taste works. Not many foods or drinks get flavor notes. Wine, of course, and spirits and beer. Vinegar. Coffee and tea. Very few solid foods; sometimes good dairy, which is often grassy. Chocolate. That those foods contain so many different chemical compounds we can perceive, enough that we actually point toward other foods, is a delight. I wonder how many people realize how fortunate we are to have that ability.

I’ve never gotten strawberry out of a pure coffee before, but I’d love to. I have had strawberry coferments that were good but had the grace of a sledge hammer. I’m sure this tastes more integrated.

Ethiopia in general seems to have coffee beans figured out.

I went to a coffee tasting event (a cupping if you’re fancy) once, and the barista gave us this spiel about how it’d be different from a wine tasting because coffee varies wildly in flavour depending on climate and processing. I was rolling my eyes, because espresso is espresso right? He served up a light roasted Ethiopian single-origin like this one and it blew my mind. It’s a shame so much coffee is dark roast (or worse, French roast aka burnt to shit).

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https://pilotcoffeeroasters.com/products/ana-sora-ethiopia

Strawberry coffee? Glad you're enjoying it, but I'm going to stick with my usual blend.

Pilot is my regular coffee brand, some of the best coffee I've ever brewed at home. I have an auto order setup for a couple of their medium roasts.

I love Ethiopian coffee, so good

Taiwan coffee culture is very big on light roasts. One of my adult english language students roasted her own beans and she had a light roast ethiopean that she served chilled - it tasted like drinking juice, it was so damn fruity.

Ethiopian coffees do tend to have the most flavorful profiles. I'll keep an eye out for this one

Around 5 years ago I got the Ana Sora from HasBean in the UK, and it was the most intense blueberry bomb. It made the absolute best espresso I've ever experienced. Way better than anything I've had in a cafe. These days they're not really hitting that blueberry note, but always worth a try.