Review on Voltage Coffee Supply by Sherwin Smith

I like to think of myself as an adventurous coffee drinker. I've tried many different types of coffee, and have discovered what types of coffee I enjoy the most by trying them all. Many people will settle for just one type of bean or roast, but not me! I'm always up for a challenge and testing out new beans, which is why this particular review caught my attention right away.

When Voltage Coffee Supply reached out to me about doing a review on their website , it was quite easy for me to jump at the chance because they offer so many different types of coffees that are hard to find elsewhere. As soon as you land on their site , you'll be greeted with several pages worth of beans from all over the world ready to be shipped out to you. As I browsed their selection of coffees, so many names and types went by my eyes that I wasn't even sure if they were joking with me or not. "Was this for real?"



I had a hard time narrowing down which coffee to order for this review because Voltage Coffee Supply has such a wide variety of beans available on their site . Luckily, the very kind people over at Voltage Coffee Supply bent over backwards and sent me just about every type of bean they offered (over 20 different types in all!) as well as (2) bags from one of my favorite roasters -  Portola Coffee Lab out of Costa Mesa, California. Portola Coffee Lab is now owned by Handsome Coffee Roasters, but I'm still a huge fan of their old style and branding. In fact, I love it so much that they were the ones who brewed me my cup of coffee at The CoffeeCon this year!



This particular coffee comes from Portola and it was roasted by them on April 11th, 2016. This type of bean has been classified as "extra fancy" which means that there are no defects in sight - just pure unadulterated high-end coffee beans. As soon as I opened up this bag of beans, I was hit with a blast of fresh roasted coffee smell that reminded me of the old days when I used to live in New York and work at an adorable little coffee shop up in Harlem.

The Costa Rica Tarrazu El Morro Test Flight beans come from one single estate within Costa Rica, which means all the beans in this bag are identical to each other - no mixing or matching here! The blend is made up of 100% Arabica beans from the species "Coffea arabica," which have been carefully handpicked by experienced farmers in a very small region near Orosi/Tarrazu.

Voltage Coffee Supply offers a wide variety of beans from all over the world, and they're quite easy to browse through on their website. For this review, I was sent just about every type that Voltage Coffee Supply has in stock (over 20 different types!) as well as two bags from one of my favorite roasters - Portola Coffee Lab out of Costa Mesa California.