between sweetness and roast bittering, cooling to cup flavors of molasses, brown sugar, an orange accent, and mild, lemon-like acidity. Not only is Doña Daisy’s coffee one of the higher scoring in Honduras from Beneficio San Vicente, at 1880 meters above sea level, it’s also the highest elevation (highest in all of Los Andes, actually!).…

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ooloon tea, rose, honey, lemon citrus Zou Estate, with an elevation of 1200 masl, is a coffee estate in Alishan, Taiwan containing a coffee shop, tea plantation and orchid plantation. With the dedicated efforts of the owner Mr Fang Zheng Lun (nickname as Coffee Prince), Zou Estate’s beans keep winning awards for years. In the…

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nutty based coffee with chocolate, caramel and velvety taste, full bodied This coffee is sourced from Calguera Gomez who organizes thirty seven surrounding family-owned farms located within the municipality of San Agustín Loxicha in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Coffee producers use their own micro-mill to process harvested cherries, which allows for meticulous care in…

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a neutral sweetness is accented by complex baking spices, creamed honey, loose leaf black tea and bittering cocoa when roasted dark This lot is from Commune Mutambu region, near the Monge Nature Reserve in Bujumbura. It’s comprised of coffee from two different wet mills, Migoti and Murambi, and between them serve the hilltop communities (“Collines”)…

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citrus based fruity like Mandarin and tropical fruit, found a strong berry to fermented fruits flavor, round sweetness like cane sugar, strong body and mouthfeel. The Chelchelie Wash Station is located in Worka area in Yirgacheffe, exclusively working on “unwashed” processing. Mill workers hand select the coffee cherries for processing with over-ripe and under-ripe beans…

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nicely fruited cup, spiced elements sensed in aroma and flavor, with dark, unrefined sugar sweetness, citrus peel, raisin, dark grape, dried tamarind and pomegranate. Othaya Farmer’s Cooperative Society (“FCS”) is comprised of 18 wet mills, and dates back to the late 1950s. Sweet Maria’s has carried coffee separations from several Othaya factories over the past…

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(Stock last updated: Mar 14) Adding 6 new coffee this month. Three from Africa, 2 from Centra America and a Taiwanese. The Kenya this time is a Peaberry (very small round bean) from Nyeri region, the best from Kenya. The other 2 are an fruity Yirgacheffe and nutty Burundi. Adding back a Mexico and Honduras…

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This dense, high-grown coffee bean holds up to heat, offering notes of sugar in the raw, syrupy dark chocolate, hints of dried fruit, moderate acidity depending on roast level. This coffee is from a cooperative in Yanatile Valley, called “Valle Inca”. What started as more of an informal farmer group headed by one of the…

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Unrefined sugar sweetness is cut through by a rindy citrus flavor, fruited accent notes of orange and dried strawberry, aromatic herbals, Earl Grey and hibiscus teas, and a soft floral jasmine note. Kayon Mountain farm is located in the southern Guji zone of Shakiso. The people are known as Gujii Oromo, and coffee farming has…

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Dark brown sugar sweetness, capable of intense cocoa roast flavors, bodied and balanced brew, notes of candied almond and chocolate-covered walnut. This coffee comes from the Santiago region of Lake Atitlán. It is made up of several different lots of coffee from local small-holder coffee farmers, who are mostly of indigenous Mayan descent. The region…

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