Comments on: Trip Report Redux: Four Barrel Coffee (now roasting their own)

By: Give It Up for Gimme! « Man Seeking Coffee

Give It Up for Gimme! « Man Seeking Coffee — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:53:07 +0000

[...] or darker roasts (i.e. Blue Bottle dark and not Starbucks/burnt dark). And perhaps in response to recent laments about a myopic Bay Area preference for single origin coffees, Gimme! doesn’t hesitate to [...]

By: Three Out of Four Barrels… « Man Seeking Coffee

Three Out of Four Barrels… « Man Seeking Coffee — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:23:21 +0000

[...] does this all mean? I’m still digesting it myself. On the one hand, I tend to agree with the opinion that Four Barrel, with their roasting, may still have a way to go to live up to the expectations – [...]

By: TheShot

TheShot — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:02:31 +0000

Four Barrel is clearly a great place. Reputation counts for a lot, but we don’t give out rave reviews that haven’t been earned yet.

The good sign is that, offline, Jeremy has been in touch with us personally about this very issue and was really concerned about what we thought. It’s always a great sign when the owner cares enough what people think that he’s always trying to better his place. So it definitely deserves more revisits.

As for Coffee Bar, every time we’ve had shots there, Luigi was preparing them. That could certainly skew results… And is a reason to revisit for the opposite reasons.

By: keith

keith — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:48:42 +0000

Haven’t been back to your site for a while, but I’ll have to be more discriminating next visit I take to four barrel. I do agree though, I hadn’t noticed its absence after the roast changeover, but there was a very bright and lemon/orange rind character to the old hairbender shots.

Next I’ll have to check out coffee bar again, couldn’t understand how you gave them such a high rank after the last time I was there and had a barista level his shot with the lid of the hopper.