Coffee Day II: Familia Coffee Co

Let’s start with a disclaimer. The owner of Familia Coffee Co is my nephew so I am biased, but I think this is good coffee. The following is our experience with our first Familia Coffee Co order.

The bag is down to earth. Nothing fancy here. The red-ink logo and hand-written label offer a nostalgic quality, but it’s when you open the bag that you know you’ve made a good choice. The aroma that greets you is warm, earthy. Very late 1960s to early 1970s for me, and that’s the best compliment I can afford a product. Now, your mileage may vary depending on your age. You may not instantly want to crank up California Dreamin’ as some sort of pre-grind ritual, but it’d be a lot cooler if you did…and, behold! The beans. Dark, shiny, healthy.

Just grinding the beans was an enjoyable process. The first taste is a hauntingly smooth fulfillment of what your nostrils first promise, but there is a contrast here. The taste is full like dark chocolate, yet with light, fruity tones that make me want to wander an old Django movie set from the 1960s. Yeah, that’s an odd thought, but is it really?

Maybe

Maybe not.

The first Django film directed by Sergio Corbucci had Franco Nero wandering around parts of Lazio, Italy and Colmenar Viejo in Spain. The beans for our order were sourced from Chiapas, Mexico, and there are plenty of mountains down there. It’s a place where they could have filmed a Django movie. A place where Franco Nero and Terrence Hill would fit right in, and they would probably be drinking something like Familia Coffee.

I’ll drink it, and so should you. You can find it here.