Comments on: Phantom Potato

By: Coffee & Conservation

Coffee & Conservation — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:43:57 +0000

The curse of the spud…

Bugs, bacteria, and the potato defect in East African coffee. Very nerdy post…….

By: caglar keskin

caglar keskin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:41:54 +0000

Potatoes are one of the most common vegetables all over the world. They are cheap, easy to cook and have so many health benefits.
You can bake them, boil them, microwave them… everyone can make something to eat with potatoes.I will start to grow tomatoes
in my farm and now learning watever i can about them, thanks for information. I also found another good site
about potatoes and so many other methods of agriculturing, i recommend you to take a look.

http://agricultureguide.org/

By: Phantom Potato | bean bag chairs

Phantom Potato | bean bag chairs — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:43:35 +0000

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By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:55:40 +0000

Damn it!
If not for this post I would have been blissfully ignorant, just thinking
*what the hell’s that?* now my imagination’s running wild!
After reading this, I was curious as I am using a few KG of some Copabakagi coop at the moment, but was dubious as to whether I would actually be able to notice any
potato or not. Then today I got a really distinct waft of potato at one point when grinding, which I think must have been it. I poured the shots, while asking the staff if they could smell it too – and when they agreed (collective power of suggestion?!) – I then remade them, to be safe. Whilst I didn’t notice it again as strong, I kept thinking I could smell it on and off all afternoon – but that was probably just my imagination! I wish I’d kept the shots, so I could have tried them to see what the taste was like, but I
ditched them as it was busy. Interesting…

By: Classifieds

Classifieds — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:49:55 +0000

That would be horrible to find after such hard work, that you have coffee beans that have potatoes in them and from the looks of it, it looks very hard to fix the problem

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:45:12 +0000

Are you a very coffee guy Jim?

By: Atniz

Atniz — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:25:46 +0000

I never tried Rwanda coffee before. I should try it too but the place where I’m living, I couldn’t get it in any stores. Maybe, should search in online.

By: David Pier

David Pier — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:37:37 +0000

Is there perhaps something besides the potato flavor that always comes along with the potato flavor? That is, it is reminiscent of potato but really much worse than added potato juice. I had a bag with this problem once, and while I wouldn’t choose to add potato flavoring to my coffee, it doesn’t seem that it would be so objectionable, and yet it was/is.

By: drew

drew — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:16:21 +0000

I’ve heard the same as Tom, that the plant reacts to the fungus to cause the flavor. Man, I painfully recall making espresso on a very busy bar with a good Rwandan coffee (MIG Buremera). Working with it trained me to hover directly over the grinder so as to discard the grounds of a fetid bean before clearing the whole room (or, at least, my fellow baristas). The potato funk seemed to turn up with more regularity as the days went on, and eventually I felt like I was playing Russian Roulette with a losing streak. Can anyone comment on “potato” spreading through bags of green coffee?

By: Thompson Owen

Thompson Owen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:20:36 +0000

If memory serves, I don’t believe insects “carry” the bacteria that leads to potato defect. It is a fungal infection that is endemic to the Lake Kivu area, and damaged coffee is susceptible. Coffee damaged by other means that CBB can be the cause of potato taste. I seem to remember that the acutal taste comes from the plants reaction to the fungus, but I am not 100% sure. I can say for sure that the taste is not specific to CBB insect damage.