{"id":4075,"date":"2008-08-15T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/now-brewing-great-lakes-coffee.html"},"modified":"2008-08-15T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T00:10:10","slug":"now-brewing-great-lakes-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/now-brewing-great-lakes-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"Now Brewing: Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I got two 8oz packs of coffees from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakescoffee.com\/\">The Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company<\/a> in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They sent me two kinds: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakescoffee.com\/Catalog\/ViewProduct.aspx?ProductID=a3b8eadb-80a1-4122-9a8e-a98fd952520a&amp;CategoryID=19277229-b5c1-444b-8410-88a2365c630f\">Dark Horse Espresso<\/a> and Zen (I don&#8217;t see it on their website). OK, I was a bit nervous about the Espresso so I tried it first: the bean had a smidgeon of oil on it and I wondered if it would be a little too zippy for me but this was a very smooth and creamy coffee.<br \/>\n<!--more|inline-->There was a hint of chocolate, not too much, and there was no bitterness at all. Average amount of crema. But, I drink all my coffee as latte, so I don&#8217;t judge coffees until I brew them up in the Rancilio &#8212; and I rate this coffee as high as any I&#8217;ve had lately. I rate all coffees against Intelligentsia and Metropolis, as any Chicagoan should, and I also compare to Chestunutt Hill Coffee Co., and Great Lakes Coffee gives them a run for their money. Who&#8217;s had some of this?<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/latte.jpg\" title=\"latte.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2008\/08\/latte.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"latte.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I got two 8oz packs of coffees from The Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They sent me two kinds: Dark Horse Espresso and Zen (I don&#8217;t see it on their website). OK, I was a bit nervous about the Espresso so I tried it first: the bean had a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Now Brewing: Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/08\/now-brewing-great-lakes-coffee.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Now Brewing: Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Co - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week I got two 8oz packs of coffees from The Great Lakes Coffee Roasting Company in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. 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