Juicy fruit flavors accented by aromatic spices, mulled grape juice, cranberry, spiced holiday punch, gooseberry, acidity that twists at your tongue, but is tamed by the strong sweetness. Kainamui is a “factory,” a coffee mill in Kenya terminology, from the Kirinyaga growing district. This is where the farmers bring the coffee cherry they harvest in…

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Caramelized sugars are the focus, with subtle nuance ala vanilla bean hints, almond syrup, walnut, lemon zest, semi-sweet chocolate, and a sweetly-disappearing aftertaste. Finca Buenos Aires Estates, a fairly large farm of about 215 hectares in the Dipilto growing region of Nueva Segovia, is . Sweet Maria’s team visits Buenos Aires mill to cup through…

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Honey sweetness accented by thyme, sage, and a tea-like chamomile note that lends a floral quality to the cup, with tangy lemon adding to the bracing cup brightness. Maria Fernandez grew up working the fields of her family coffee farm with her father. These days, she had her husband cultivate coffee with children of their…

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delicate and sweet with just hints of floral, soft fruit and a nutty/chocolaty factor. The Pacas Family has been producing coffee for five generations, and selling it domestically in El Salvador. Thirty years ago they decided to process and export their coffees for the first time. Ever since, they have worked towards achieving high-quality coffees,…

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bright aromatic cup, with refined sugar sweetness, heady florals invoking jasmine pearl tea, and a tannic bittering/vibrant lemon note that lead to a mouth cleansing finish. Qonqana is one of a handful of coffee stations run by the Daye Bensa group in Sidama’s mountainous Bensa highland growing region, near the town of Shantawene. Unlike their…

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Adding 7 new coffee for the month. Three of them are coming from our all-time favorite though smaller origins (as compare to EKCG) – Burundi, Honduras & El Salvador. The new Ethiopian is coming from Sidama, high altitude Bensa highlight region, a very bright floral one. Special of the month are 3 speciality grade arabica…

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honey and raw sugar sweetness, hints of cantaloupe, mild yellow tea, fresh peach and apricot, and elegant acidity connects the sweetness to a brisk tea-like finish. Yandaro Station is a coffee cherry collection site located in Kayanza, Burundi’s northern province that borders neighboring Rwanda. The station itself is in the Kabarore Commune, which it serves,…

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A unique cup that you won’t want to miss. Look for lime custard, raspberry, and caramel in this exotic coffee from Myanmar. Myanmar is a newcomer to the specialty coffee scene and their beans are still not widespread.  The farm at Indigo Mountain was started in 2013 by two brothers, Kyaw Tun Naing and Myo…

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Mild intensity, raw sugars, walnut, cacao, Genmaicha green tea hint, and herbal tobacco in aroma. Special notes from Sweet Maria’s team: “We’ve had exactly two lots of Laotian coffee in the past 15+ years. Coffee from Laos has had a rough go of edging its way into the world of Specialty Coffee, so to me,…

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