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African Great Lakes Coffee
The African Great Lakes are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift. They include Lake Victoria, the second-largest fresh water lake in the world by area, Lake Tanganyika, the world’s second-largest freshwater lake by volume and depth, and Lake Malawi, the world’s eighth-largest…
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Colombia Cauca Inza Vereda Project
Flavor notes from complex sugars to clean fruited hints, like apple, Monukka raisin, dried fig, pumpkin pie with whipping cream, and a honeyed flavor that hangs on in the aftertaste. This Direct-Trade coffee from Inzá is made up of coffees from few neighboring producers in different villages in Inzá as micro-regional blend. (“Vereda” being the…
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The Old World Coffee
Before the new world (mainly lead by Brazil with it’s signature variety “Mundo Novo”) started growing coffee in 17th century, basically Yemen and India and Java are dominated the coffee plantation in the world. That’s why the words Mocha (port in Yemen) and Java are very much equivalent to coffee in home vocabulary. Arabian, Dutch…
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Colombia Fermentation Processing
Colombia is the pioneer of this new coffee processing method. These once experimental methods have element of wanting to push the boundaries of flavor and push the boundaries of what coffee can truly become. After several years of development by professional producers in origin countries, especially Colombia, some methods have gained their position in the…
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Indonesian Sulawesi Toarco Jaya PB Fully Washed
Crisp tones, slight citrus note with an aromatic hints of a light fruit tone that come through in the cup, full bodied, sweet and clean this is a stronger cup of a coffee! The Peaberry is the rarity out of the three Toarco offerings, Indo plants just don’t throw off the amount of PB’s that…
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Guatemalan FTO San Marcos – COPECAFE Co-op
Chocolaty, sweet malty coffee with lower acidity. The lighter you go, the more floral the cup gets, real light, the floral turns into a hint of lemony citric, but at most roast levels, low acidity with just a hint of floral to keep the cup crisp. Dark roasts flip the tones and get decently strong…
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July 2022 Coffee Bean List
Adding 7 new coffee for the month. The Kenyan is a high qualityPeaberry from Kirinyaga, 91.3 cupping score. The 2 Americans are from Guatemala San Marcos and Nicaragua Nueva Segovia regions, both are chocolaty sweet coffee. The Sulawesi is a washed Peaberry, taste very clean and bright, quite different from traditional Wet-hulled Indo. Highlight of the…
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Tanzanian Premium Ruvuma – Sepukila AA – Top Lot
Crisp, clean and rich, a stellar batch of Tanz coffee. A bit higher acidity at the lighter roasts but comes off very balanced in the cup tones. Citric lemony brightness with a little hint of soft fruit notes balancing with a complex chocolaty undertone with just the right amount of classic herbal African spice. Light…
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Congo Kivu Org. SOPACDI – Pygmies’ Coffee Project – Bourbon Washed Processed
A super clean lot from the Congo; Amazing considering all the trouble this year in the Kivu; beautiful prep on these beans. Great floral and soft fruit tones upfront with a bit of brightness, not too overwhelming or potent like some Kenyans, delicate sweetness balanced with a little chocolaty spice. Smooth with almost a brown…
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Uganda Mt Elgon Mbale – Lutheran World Relief
Fuller bodied and very chocolaty, potent cup mostly with a bakers chocolate like tones. Medium to low acidity the cup does pull some balance with hints of floral acidity and a grape-skin like fruit tone. Reminiscent of Tanz PB coffee, a bit rustic and earthy tasting light roasted but turns into a wonderful chocolate bomb…