Speeder and Earls' Columbian Supremo

Recent car trouble has had me walking home from the mechanic very early in the morning (10:45am) a couple of times recently. It's a two-mile walk through parts of the town that I don't often see. How exciting it is to see this other side of town with its exotic creatures of the night performing their bizarre early-morning rituals! I feel like an anthropologist as I buy my coffee and paper.

Speeder and Earls' Columbian Supremo
Drip Coffee,
Pump-pot Delivery

I think this is a fairly high-caffeine coffee. At the first sip I noticed a slight pang of headache in the top left forehead area.

The first sip of this had me saying "Oh, I know this one." And so do you. This is related to your basic truck-stop coffee, I would bet that truck-stop coffee is, in general, Columbian. This coffee has a roundish taste, with a fairly narrow flavor profile, concentrated on the mid-range flavors. It is blunt and tends toward yellow hues. I would say that the overall taste is orangey-red with some golden notes in there tending even toward pure yellow. The flavor is sour not bitter. I get more acid than tannin, and I noticed a little abrasion in the front of my mouth, that "squeaky" feeling. On the back end there is a little sourness, but no real buzz. This coffee tastes a little like compromise. It is the same stuff, essentially, as they serve as the house blend at The Cottage in Iowa City, and a thousand other muffin places across our land.