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2009-05-31
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In all, you could visit this siphon bar if you are in the area.Xen Coffee sports three single halogen lamps to heat up its cloth filtered vac pots. For the grinder, the café uses Kenwood Burr grinder you could find in most department store a while back and I think Jay uses it. The bean in the grinder jumped quite a bit toward the end of the coffee, which, to me, seemed to indicate a dull burr which may negatively affect the cup, ie inconsistent grind size and powder.Its coffee lineup includes tw
Xen Coffee sports three single halogen lamps to heat up its cloth filtered vac pots. For the grinder, the café uses Kenwood Burr grinder you could find in most department store a while back and I think Jay uses it. The bean in the grinder jumped quite a bit toward the end of the coffee, which, to me, seemed to indicate a dull burr which may negatively affect the cup, ie inconsistent grind size and powder.
Its coffee lineup includes two blends and six single origin beans including Java, Colombia, Sumatra, Blue Mountain, Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe (Yirg), and Guatemala Huehuetenango. The last two beans are fair traded coffees and locally roasted which should imply its freshness. The local Fair Trade Company arranges for the roasting and provides the bean and I doubt whether Xen Coffee knows who roasts their bean and exactly when it was actually roasted.
I don’t know the freshness of other beans. For the other customer, I didn’t hear the grinder and just saw the coffee ground being dump into the siphon .
For my cup, I asked for whatever bean which they believe were freshly roasted and was suggested Yirg. My cup shows the winey tone, a hallmark of Yirg, and some sign of lively cup though it's not very obvious like fresh beans I brewed myself at home.
The coffee was brewed way too light for my liking, reminding me of a Chinese tea, ie Pu-erh (Mandarin) or Bolay tea (Cantonese). From my experiences with Yirg from both hkcoffee and justjave, Yirg can be much more intense in flavor and less water while brewing should allow Yirg to show itself much better.
Locating Xen Coffee needs some patience. While it may be easy to spot the Manly Plaza, locating Xen Coffee inside the plaza isn’t due to the labyrinthine layout.
To me, it was relatively pricey for a cup of coffee, HK$32. I had afternoon tea set B which includes scone and its fixing for another HK$14. The scone was just OK.
All in all, I see the shop has a potential if they could manage to offer locally roasted bean in all of its coffee lineup. They could adopt the strategy I heard in the US that lots of cafés boast they used bean from progressive roaster like Intelligentsia, Stumptown and Counter Culture.
I believe this is how Xen Coffee could set itself further apart from others by saying it proudly presents locally roasted beans from local Indie roasters such as hkcoffee or Just Java as freshness is the key to a flavorful coffee.
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