It has been a while since we've talked about coffees from other roasters. Some might attribute this fact to Aaron De Lazzer's spanking via the comments section, but we like to say that we just haven't had the time.

But our friend-in-coffee Larry, recently traveled to Amsterdam for a conference and brought us back some booty. And not the kind that you're embarrassed to talk about.


Hayes on the left, Brandmeester on the right.

Brandmeester's Koffie, (which apparently means "chief roaster") appears to have several roaster/cafés in the area, although we'll need someone fluent to correct for mistakes.

The discovery of the coffee on the shelves led to a little tussle among the male memebers of the BBCC kiosk as both Oldman and Manboy tried to "out-Euro" each other for dibs on the less than half-pound.

Manboy took the initiative and pulled a couple of sample shots. As you can see, the roast level was dramatically lighter and it showed in the flavor. Bright, pleasantly sweet and dropped off the palate almost immediately. Totally different experience to the west coast style of syrup-y bodied shots. Delightful and unfortunately gone. Didn't even get a chance to take a picture before the last of the dregs were licked from the bottom of the demitasse. How Euro is that.



And the kicker is that Larry didn't even like it. So hey, Dutch readers of the Clown College, what's the deal?

Oh and be sure to check the comments section as Guy from meathenge will surely find something in this post to swear about. Yeah!