Searching for that tingling feeling but can't find it!

[Porcupop]

I'm new on the B&B forum and I stumbled on the Café portion of the Forum. Interesting stuff! A few years ago, I visited a friend who served me coffee made from Dunkin' Donuts beans. The taste was rich and strong, as I like it, but it was also accompanied by a tingling feeling at the tip of my tongue! I really liked it! When I came back home, I wondered how I could duplicate that. I had some beans that came from the Von Trapp Lodge in Vermont, "The Von Trapp Mix". I thought that if, maybe, I added just a little more coffee beans to my usual "recipe", something might happen. Well, what do you know!? Something DID happen: I DID get the tingling! But that lasted only as long as my beans! No more coffee beans, no more tingling! We did end up going back to the Von Trapp Lodge. I grabbed a bag of "Von Trapp Coffee", but it wasn't exactly the "Von Trapp MIX" so, you guessed it, no tingling! Since then, I still make good coffee but I'm on a quest to which, like someone said, I can't get no satisfaction... So what do you think?

Why did the tingling happen in the first place?
The fact that I manage to repeat it with another coffee means that it was not a coincidence.
Anybody else know what I'm talking about?
More importantly, how can I make it happen?

I have a local coffee shop where they roast and sell coffee. Awesome people. They know their stuff! But they have no clue what I'm talking about and, therefore, can't help me. Can you?

Thanks!

 

[StillShaving]

The tingle was the acidity in the coffee. You likely found yourself drinking a flavorful cup of coffee, with some sweetness, bitterness, tartness, in a balance that you liked. Most mass market coffee don't/can't deliver.

To repeat your experience you need to find freshly roasted coffee, lightly roasted (avoid anything labeled French, Vienna, Dark). A good local roaster can help a lot.

 

[kriskoeh]

I'm curious if you can order Dunkin' Donuts coffee beans now. Lol.

 

[Porcupop]

Stillshaving,
Thanks for the tips, I'm taking notes!

Kriskoeh,
DD's are closing around here (Québec). I go to the States regularly, but can't find DD beans, just ground coffee! One would assume that if they have ground coffee, they DO have beans somewhere, at some point...

 

[kriskoeh]

I found them online last night on Dunkin' Donuts website. You can order them.

 

[Porcupop]

Kriskoeh, thanks for the info! They don't ship north of the border, but I'll see how I can get around that.

 

[_JP_]

I'm curious if you can order Dunkin' Donuts coffee beans now. Lol.

Picked up a package of the in the Commisary at Ft Dix today. I expect it'll be stocked in other stores as well.

 

[oc_in_fw]

I picked up Dunkin' Donut beans at CVS.