Organic doesn’t mean bad cup quality. Other than those organic coffee you found in supermarket (usually from Peru or Honduras), there are many serious producers around the world trying very hard to practice organic farming but not scarifying cup quality. Bringing in 4 of those this month from Ethiopia, Timor-Leste, Bolivia and Dominican Republic. You…

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Clean, bright, sweet with a very diverse flavor set. Darker fruit, citrus/floral and herbal chocolate will main flavors one can see in this cup. Nice jammy body will be seen in the medium to borderline dark roast mark.  The Kayon Mountain Coffee Farm is 500 hectares with about 300 hectares planted in coffee and has…

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berry based flavor and maple syrup, citrus fruity taste; with some toffee sweetness hint, medium body clean cup The story of this coffee is quiet interesting. It all started with Rodrigo Sanchez, a producer from the municipality of Palestina. Rodrigo organizes the producers from Palestina and other municipalities to bring their coffee to market. One…

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pine, rose, chamomile, red apple, floral, milk chocolate Finca Villa Betulia is located in Acevedo,southern Huila. Coffee grown here is on soil made up of volcanic ashes and clay foam. Though not as high an altitude as other farms in Huila, day temperatures at Finca Villa Betulia are slightly lower than average, leading to a…

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full bodied brew that packs in notes of apple cider, dried fig, caramelized sweetness, pancake syrup, aromatic herbals, and rustic pipe tobacco. Zambia is not a coffee growing country we see many samples from. There is plenty of coffee being exported from the region, but their coffee-growing history is much younger than those that surround…

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boasts fruited aroma, maple sweetness, notes of canned peach and nectarine, and rounded mouthfeel. Top-tier decaf that shows its origin characteristics. The sweetness and fruited cup flavors set this decaf apart from some of the others. I think it is at it’s zenith in terms of sweetness, and has maximum “origin character”. The smells are…

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Let’s drink some floral coffee in our short autumn. Three anaerobic fermentation coffee (Uganda, Honduras and Colombia) are selected for this month, they are all processed by advanced yet experimental processing that borrowed from wine making, taste are winery, fruity and very floral by default. The Guatemala Gesha and Costa Rica Jaguar Yellow Honey are…

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Brews up a cup profile with bitter roast offset by caramelized sweetness, notes of dark cocoa, brown sugar, chocolate wafer cookie, and a malty layer, with hints of bread dough. The Kachalú group in Santander are made up of 110 coffee producers, each with roughly 10 hectaers of coffee. You see a lot of Catimor…

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Syrupy smooth, vanilla, dark chocolate Bali Blue Moon has been a well-known “secret” among coffee roasters. It is a coffee growing region that has been heavily regulated by government, which may seem like a bad thing, but it means that both the quality of the stock used, the handling, and processing are excellent. This coffee…

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Mama Cata is a very top notch award winning farm that very seldom makes it to the US. Located in some of the best growing territory in Panama, Jose’s highest elevation and most renowned farm (he owns Garrido Estate as well as some other smaller fields).  Some of the biggest names in Panama coffee are…

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