Tag: Found Familiar

Found Familiar is third wave roasting style coffees in bags with geeky art. Their Sanguine Vampire Blend is inspired by, well, vampires.

As a former professional coffee taster my first, and most important note, is that if you like your coffee you are doing it right. Also, as a former taster, I decided that in 2025 I’m going to do a cupping of each new coffee I taste, because I don’t want to lose the skill.
_{This will also help me maintain my sense of taste for wine, beer, food, etc.}

Sanguine Vampire Blend tasting notes

This coffee was cupped at home, using a Baratza grinder, my kettle, a cup and one of my spoons from back in the day. It was tasted across a few temps. Additionally I’ve enjoyed espresso and cortados with Sanguine from a Breville Barista Touch and pour overs using a Chemex with paper filters with cream and without.

On the break: Aroma of dark fruit, cherry or blackberries. Medium to strong roast.

First slurp: Light, medium body without acid. Notes closer to dark cherry, mild acid, cocoa.

Third slurp: Picks up roast better as cools. Stronger dark chocolate rather than cocoa. Bright cherry rather than dark?

Lightly drying after spitting — think like eating a walnut

Who should buy Sanguine?

This is a great coffee for espresso, macchiato and cortado drinkers. There’s complexity to it, and it does pair well with the heavy chocolate and berry desserts as Found Familiar mentions.

As a straight black cup of coffee it’s not as dark as I’d want — the vast majority of my 15 years of coffee experience were in second wave places (though I did stints in 3rd too).

If you enjoy a lot of cream the roast may not get through like you want, unless you mostly go for 3rd wave profiles. Those that don’t use a lot of cream will enjoy it, especially with a bit of sugar, which I’ve found brings out the fruit notes.

What makes Found Familiar different?

There are several geek-roasters. What I like about Found Familiar is their support of artists and one of my preferred mapmakers. I’ve also purchased the Run D&D t-shirt twice because like many middle aged people I grew.

_{Note: The coffee was purchased by myself and there was no expectation from the company that I would do a review.}