Well Kai,
We deffinately share the same preferences for coffee.
I've used that term about dark colored hot water several times.
It's a real drag to go into a restaurant and experience dark hot water with a meal.
I've been buying a blend of beans from Costco, made by the San Francisco Bay Coffee Co., it's called Colombian Supremo.
I have a coffee press and I use one grinder's amount of beans and get maybe two cups from what most people would make 8-10 cups with.
When my neighbor comes over he'll add about 2/3 cup hot water in his cup.
Your Mexican blend was nice and sharp!
When Joan takes me to Kona next week, I'm going to be checking out the different blends over there as well. There seems to be a strong Hawaii-Humboldt connection going on. The latest, that I've seen is a new coffee line called Konaboldt. I'm deffinately going to try that one.