Our Dark, Shipworthy Breakfast Blend

#263 Bert's Breakfast Blend

12 oz whole bean dark coffee

Today I’m sipping Captain Bert’s Breakfast Blend, one of the staple roasts that has buoyed Lighthouse Roasters’ reputation for over 25 years. Darker than the usual breakfast blend, Bert’s is a Central American and Sumatran mix: the Central American brings body, heft, and a smooth nutty chocolate; the Sumatran its earthy complexity. It’s a hard coffee to describe, because it “tastes like coffee”. The type of coffee that’s heady, aromatic and dark, easy to throw into a French press, maybe heat up some milk in the microwave, and settle into the morning. A good breakfast blend, roasted a few ticks lighter than a traditional espresso blend, this is the lighthouse of the coffee world, shining a beacon of flavor and welcoming us to the day.

If Captain Bert were here to share a tale or two, he might talk about how important coffee has always been to seafaring men--captains and crew alike--through weeks and months of seafaring or the loneliness of quarantine at port. The U.S. Navy has a vast collection of fun coffee-related lore: the tradition of never washing coffee mugs; the popular myth that the phrase “cup of joe” originated when Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels banned alcohol aboard naval vessels in 1914; that a group of sailors dipped their white uniforms in coffee to create the very first khakis; and so on.

If you’re a dark-roast lover, stock your home with Bert’s Breakfast Blend, one of my favorite dark-roasted Seattle staples. May your own journey through the next few weeks be smooth sailing and perfectly caffeinated.

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