{"id":4272,"date":"2014-07-30T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2024-05-27T08:33:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T08:33:26","slug":"dash-coffee-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/dash-coffee-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink, Shop & Dash Coffee Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Coffee<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"Coffee<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Smelling<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I once did a wine tasting course together with a friend and my sister. We thought it was\u00a0a good idea to learn ‘how to impress people in a restaurant when ordering a bottle<\/del> glass of wine’. To be honest, I don’t\u00a0remember much about it, except that it’s fun to drink a lot of wine in one evening (probably don’t\u00a0need a tasting course to know that) and that the food they paired the wine with was pretty amazing. Especially the cheese platter\u00a0at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Coffee Bar DASH<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So what did I expect from a coffee tasting at one of the newest coffee bars in King’s Cross? I guess the same. To learn how to recognize and appreciate specialty coffees, but most of all just to do something fun on a Saturday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drink, Shop & Dash opened recently right next door to Drink, Shop & Do<\/a> which was actually one of my first ‘discoveries’ in London. It focusses on take-away (Alchemy<\/a>) coffee and to promote the place they started hosting coffee tastings on (every other) Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coffee Tasting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After a short introduction we got to do some coffee tasting – or cupping<\/em> as it’s officially called – ourselves. Starting with smelling the different beans (couldn’t tell much of a difference), then the ground coffee (love that smell), followed by tasting the coffee after the water had been added. For each of the 5 samples we scored a number of criteria such as acidity, bitterness and sweetness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though I didn’t really know what I was doing (just slurp so you look\/sound like you do), I could clearly taste the differences between each cup. Some I really liked, others…not so much. Seems I have a preference for natural processed beans which are known to have a slight dirty flavor\u00a0(Hey, don’t judge until you’ve tried!<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some Like it Cold<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We finished the coffee tasting with something quite special. Not a cheese platter… But a cold coffee brew that had taken 18 hours to prepare. Nice to drink on a hot summer day, but not really my cup of tea<\/del> coffee. Although the rest of the group really seemed to like it. At the same time they didn’t like my dirty coffee, so I guess it’s true when they say that there’s no accounting for taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once did a wine tasting course together with a friend and my sister. We thought it was\u00a0a good idea to learn ‘how to impress people in a restaurant when ordering a bottle glass of wine’. To be honest, I don’t\u00a0remember much about it, except that it’s fun to drink a lot of wine in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[154,229,233,180,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stedentrip-nl","category-europa","category-eten-drinken","category-londen","category-verenigd-koninkrijk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanpixxels.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}