White Horse Coffee Roasters Review

How’s it going? Hope the coffee is flowing! Today I am going to share my first of four vendor reviews for vendors I stopped by during the Pennsylvania Chocolate and Coffee Festival (read my review of the event here). We will be starting things off with White Horse Coffee Roasters.

White Horse Coffee Roasters is an awesome roaster who is committed to sustainable production of high quality organic coffee. All of their coffee is USDA certified organic and fair trade. All of their roasting is done without any carbon emissions and the entire bag of coffee, yes all parts, are compostable. If you are looking for an environmentally friendly coffee brand White Horse Coffee Roasters may be the one for you. They were sampling three of their coffees at the festival, so let’s take a quick dive into each one.

During the festival the first coffee I sampled was a medium roast with a mix of Nicaraguan and Ethiopian beans called Giddy Up.

The White Horse Coffee Logo, please note that all photos on this post are from the White Horse Coffee website.

White Horse Coffee Giddy Up Review:

Giddy Up had a medium-light body with a noticeable sweetness in the nose. The front for this one gave great notes of roasted toffee with just a touch of bitterness. The roasty notes gave way in the middle to sweeter notes of caramel, notably the bitterness also faded. The sweetness fades slightly in the finish and ends with a touch of chamomile-like floral notes.

Overall, Giddy Up was a nice and easy to drink coffee. The flavor profile is definitely on the sweet side, but it is well balanced and not overwhelming. If you like coffee with a subtle sweetness this is a good blend for you. It is also a nice change up from many sweeter coffees that tend to have chocolate forward flavor profiles.

Now, I will never complain about a chocolate forward coffee, which leads us nicely into our next blend, a single origin Mexican dark roast called Grand Prix.

White Horse Grand Prix Review:

Spoiler alert, they actually ran out of this during the coffee festival, so clearly it was a popular coffee. Grand Prix was a bold and full bodied coffee with an intense chocolatey nose. It starts with deep dark chocolatey notes, giving you slightly bitter cacao notes with a touch of sweetness. The bitterness fades and gives way to a delicious sweeter chocolate middle. The coffee finishes with bold chocolate notes that have a great sweetness.

Overall, Grand Prix was a very chocolatey cup of coffee, but not so much so that it was overpowering or unpleasant. It was a great cup of coffee and quite unique for a dark roast to have such a sweet flavor profile. If you are looking for a coffee with bold, rich chocolatey notes this is the blend for you. Even if you do not typically like dark roasts, I believe this one will surprise you.

White Horse Coffee was sampling another one of their dark roasts with a mix of Peruvian and Honduran beans called Blue Ribbon Blend.

Blue Ribbon Blend Review:

Blue Ribbon Blend was another bold and full bodied coffee with a nice blueberry aroma in the nose. The coffee starts with notes of tart blueberry, slightly balanced with a hint of sweetness. This berry flavor stays into the middle with a slight dark chocolatey flavor. The dark chocolate notes come through strong in the finish but remain balanced with the tart blueberry notes.

Overall, Blue Ribbon Blend was a pretty berry forward cup of coffee. The berry notes were well balanced as they did not overshadow the rest of the flavor profile. This blend was slightly more acidic and bitter than the others, but still a pleasant cup of coffee to drink. This cup of coffee almost felt like drinking a dark chocolate covered blueberry. With the complexity of the flavor profile and the bold tasting notes, this coffee would be a great option for people who like fruit forward coffees or are looking to expand their palate into these types of coffees.

All three offerings that I sampled from White Horse Coffee Roasters were coffees I would easily drink again. Grand Prix was my favorite, I really want to get my hands on it again and definitely try cold brewing it. Giddy Up was my second favorite and Blue Ribbon Blend was my third favorite of the coffees I sampled. Each blend was easy to drink, but the flavor notes in the Grand Prix blend were outstanding.

You can purchase any of the blends included in this review and check out the other offerings From White Horse Coffee Roasters on their online store. They also have a cafe in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania with an expansive menu of coffee and espresso drinks. I would highly recommend checking them out and getting a bag of the Grand Prix roast!

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