INTELLIGENTSIA

This is our recent favorite coffee beans. In Cleveland, unfortunately there was no good cafe, and before we found this coffee beans, we had been thinking that cafe LOOP was the best. The cafe Loop is located in tremont OH where is neighborhood of restaurant DANTE. It's not a big cafe, and there are tables and chairs on the first floor. On the second floor, they are selling CDs and records. Sometimes we found some special edition of CDs for Japanese sales.   

 Once before, our friend told us that they had a good coffee at MOCO cafe in downtown and we tired it. The coffee bag is bright red color and there is brand name on it. The color of coffee bean is not too dark but a little bit light brown color. When I open the bag, I could smell of good smoky and bitter coffee 

aroma.

Actually this coffee is not MOCO cafe's original coffee, but they are just selling INTELLIGENTSIA coffee. When I searched about INTELLIGENTSIA's web site (http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/about/about-us ) I found out they are well-known coffee and tea shop in the US, and mainly they are doing business in LA and Chicago. But besides there, they have a lab in NY and they are selling coffee in couple big cities. 

Michael Philips who is a barista in INTELLIGENTSIA chicago and also contributing in educating people for coffee and tea has won the 2010 World Barista Championship held at the Olympia Conference Center in London, UK. According to the web site, Philips is the only consecutive US Barista champion, wining in 2009 and 2010. 

I'm really happy to see such a great coffee here by chance! I hope I can have a coffee from Michael Philips when I visit to Chicago in the future.