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Everett roaster Velton Ross gets high marks, more sales
Posted by Melissa Allison
THOMAS JAMES HURST/THE SEATTLE TIMES
Velton Ross worked for Bauhaus and Top Pot for years before breaking out on his own. He roasts in the basement of Lowell Art Works in Everett and hopes to someday open a coffee shop to showcase his beans.
In any case, it's an honor and often a sales boon to receive high marks, and Everett roaster Velton Ross has achieved both. His Bonsai Blend Espresso is the top-rated coffee (94) at CoffeeReview.com this month.
Bigger sales are already rolling in for Velton's Coffee Roasting, with GreatCoffee.com choosing Bonsai as May's coffee-of-the-month for its coffee club members.
A few notes from the blind judging at CoffeeReview.com: "On the nose, I got inviting, complex floral and strawberry notes. The body was vivacious - I could have said round, sweet, with a little savory edge, comforting, but vivacious will do."
Others found chocolate and malt, as well as cedar, butter, lemon bar and spice. They noticed "the big, sweet, chocolaty bloom in milk," which one taster "found was complicated by a continued, brightening hint of lemon zest."
How do you feel about such high-falutin' language for coffee?
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