accidental blend

a couple of roasts ago i did an Inventory Reduction Roast, whereby I took several small parcels of beans and mixed them pre-roast until I had about a pound: my normal roast quantity.

The blend was roughly half sulawesi, half sumatra, and half south american. it came out quite good, better than past IRRs.

So I ordered 2lbs each of sulawesi and sumatra and made another blend, this time on purpose, half-and-half. It has some of the chocolate tones of the IRR, but muted and overshadowed by earthy notes. if i had it to do over again (and I do, i bought beans for two batches :), I'd minimize the earthyness and try to bring back the chocolate. Of course, that will only work if the chocolate was not from the sudamerican beans. we shall see, eh?