First Look: Intelligentsia House Blend Coffee
Things are starting to heat up over here at Coffee Obsessed. Up on the brew list for this week is the Intelligentsia House Blend. As you can see by the stats below, this house blend promises to be a smooth, medium bodied coffee that offers hints of fruit, milk chocolate and caramel with a finishing of baked apples. Interesting combo out of Intelligentsia and we are looking forward to the consumption process.
Intelligentsia House Blend Coffee
- Catuai, Bourbon, Caturra Grown at 1,550 – 1,850 M
- This medium-bodied blend offers subtle fruit notes with milk chocolate and caramel close behind. the balanced acidity finished with notes of baked apples.
- El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico
- Roasted on 12.01.09

More on Intelligentsia
From Intelligentsiacoffee.com:
Intelligentsia Coffee’s mission is to provide our customers, staff, and community with an unparalleled and complete coffee and tea experience in an environment steeped in understanding, knowledge, skill, service and mutual respect.
Intelligentsia exists to provide both a fulfilling work environment for our employees and the highest quality products for our customers. Both goals are equally necessary to the success of our business.
Offering the highest quality product includes:
- Training staff to be the most knowledgeable and skilled in the coffee industry
- Creating and maintaining a satisfying work environment of continued education and constantly evolving knowledge
- Providing each customer extraordinary service
- Treating our vendors with respect and courtesy
- Contributing as a valuable member of the local and world community
- Contributing as a valuable member of the world coffee community
- Never sacrificing quality
Have any personal experience with the Intelligentsia? Let us know what you think in the comments below.



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Intelligentsia is one of my favorite coffee shops in Chicago. Every time I go back home to visit my parents, I try to go stop by.
I bet that is a pretty cool place to stop into to.
Tried the House blend. Acidic. Have had better. Maybe it was the way it was brewed at Mercantile Coffee shop?