Coffee Review: Mocha — Catahoula Coffee

brew: Mocha— Catahoula Coffee Company, Richmond, CA

Mocha is a dark roast from Catahoula Coffee Company, located on San Pablo Avenue in Richmond, California.

Anyone with a tongue might admit that coffee and chocolate are happy together. The cocoa bean and the coffee bean have become some of the world’s most desired beans, eclipsing the lima and the kidney long ago.

When I think of mocha, I think of a young adult trying coffee for the first time. Or maybe of a fancy elderly lady who sips a tiny cup with her pinky finger extended. But…thanks the American desire to sweeten everything, we’ve taken the Mocha out of actual coffee drinking and poured it into Dunkin Donuts Mocha shakes and Mocha Almond Fudge ice creams.

Well…Catahoula’s Mocha will bring it back. This Mocha needs no whipping up with cream or caramel. It is to be enjoyed all by itself. Notes of dark chocolate and almond linger on the tongue. This blend is an attempt to recreate the Yemeni Mokka Java. Mokka Java is said to be the world’s oldest coffee blend, combining the Yemeni Mocha bean with the Indonesian Java bean. Due to the Yemeni Civil War, the sourcing of these beans is hard to come by at the moment. Catahoula has blended South American, Central American, African and Indonesian beans to approximate the rare Yemeni bean. And well done!

Despite my current condition: sleep-deprived, sinus-impacted, tissue-heavy and sniffling…I’ve been delighted by this bag of beans. I’ve made it extra strong today, as it wants to be enjoyed in smaller, double-espresso amounts.

Now…will I complement the mocha with a few chocolate-covered espresso beans? Only time will tell.

Rating: 5 stars