Intelligentsia's New Stones Throw Blend: Good Beat, Robust Beans, You Can Dance To It
There are many kinds of awesome in this world, and this blend of beats and beans is one of the better varieties of it.
Apparently they won't be selling this at the Silverlake store, but we're busy trying to track down a pound of Intelligentsia's Stones Throw Blend to taste for ourselves.
"This medium-bodied blend offers subtle fruit notes with milk chocolate and caramel close behind. The balanced acidity finishes with notes of baked apples," reads the description on the package.
Stones Throw's website explains the origins of the idea:
A few months ago an email came to us asking, "hey, do you guys like coffee?"
In what seemed like moments after the obvious reply, "yes," a box arrived containing several bags of Intelligentsia's finest, freshly roasted & Burr-ground.* They were labeled Stones Throw Blend, Quasimoto Blend, Madlib Blend and Peanut Butter Wolf Blend.
Madlib got a bag of espresso, and not long afterwards finished 15 new beat tapes. Coincidence? You be the judge. Needless to say a friendship was formed.
Intelligentsia is like the Stones Throw of coffee roasters. They do their homework, deal directly with their farmers (bettering hundreds of lives in the process of getting those Arabica beans to their Chicago and East L.A. Roasting facilities), and churn out seasonal blends and single-estate offerings like we hock 7s and CDs. They even have a single-estate espresso. That's the coffee equivalent of compiling Bruce Haack's vocoder work onto one CD. (We're doing that next.)
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