Yeah , I ' m thinking of going back someday and telling them about my experience to see if it was a fluke . But the experience was so dramatically different from my expectations that it might be a few years . Dunno if you subscribe the the underextraction souroverextraction bitter truism , but even powdering the beans and letting them brew for 30 minutes didn ' t reduce the sourness . Probably didn ' t help when I mentioned it to some random person and they replied , Oh , that place with the sour coffee ? Well , apparently . Yep , northern . Santa Cruz Roasting has been a fairly solid source for years . Would be great to have another local roaster , but that degree of awfulness actually induced a strong aversion reaction . They gave me a coupon for a ' free ' coffee with the beans . Maybe I ' ll go cash that in someday .