Sampler – 6 Half-Pounds – Burman Coffee’s Exotic Selection:

Description

Don’t know what to try but like exotic tastes in coffee? Than this sampler is for you!

In this sampler you will find top notch coffees that definitely don’t taste like normal coffee. From fruity naturals to bold wet-hulled. This is a wonderful collection of coffee that will showcase how diverse coffee can taste.

Be warned though, exotic tastes always pull a love/hate relationship, these are all wonderful top notch examples but not everyone likes super exotic tasting coffee.

Indonesian Sumatra Gr. 1 – Mandheling
A very clean traditional Sumatra cup. Best from medium to dark roasts. Fuller bodied with some nice exotic incense spice notes intermingled with a bakers chocolate and smoky cup profile. Light roast are not recommended (for almost all Indo coffees). Medium roasts were nice and balanced, a little lemony acidity upfront mixing with a bunch of spice and hints of an earthy slightly peaty chocolaty factor; a decent roast point for pour-overs or drip. Darker roasts were fuller bodied and very smoky with the spice lingering in the aftertaste, very low acidity; good for dark roast fans, espresso or blend bases.

Vietnam Lam Dong – Duc Trong Mill – Washed Processed Arabica
Medium to dark roast beans & a great daily drinker! This cup is very thick and creamy, filled with semi-sweet chocolate and nutty tones.  A very easy to drink coffee. A hint of soft fruit can be seen at the light to medium roasts but pretty faint, not super noticeable until the cup cools. A bit of peppery spice at the darker roasts with some complimenting roasty and smoky tones. Lighter roasts will show some lemony acidity and can accentuate the fruitiness of the cup but often will come off a bit too dry. These beans are more about the creamy fuller bodied and smooth chocolate and nutty tones which will come out from medium roasts and beyond.

Indian Monsooned Malabar
The Indian Monsooned Malabar is a very low acidity, thick and creamy, overly earthy style cup of coffee. There is a lot of sweet tones in this cup depending on the roast and one can taste a little hint of the natural processing soft fruit tones and classic Indian spice notes.

Tanzanian Ngorongoro – Finagro Gaia Estate – Kent Natural Processed
A tasty cup from light to dark! The best roast level will be personal taste preference. For those who enjoy a bit more fruit forward cup, the lighter roasts really pop the fruit tone out along with a hint of citric and silky smooth nutty/chocolate/herbal darker tones. With a more intense roast, the cup transforms into a chocolate-and-cocoa delight with smooth caramel sweetness, a cool hint of mint, and a delicate touch of pine and herbs—smooth and comforting. The profile overflows with green-mango brightness and ripe plum; a floral acidity reminiscent of mango or mandarin lifts the cup, while the cocoa base keeps it grounded.

This coffee is very high chaff and dense, which can cause issues in many home roasters. We do not recommend roasting this coffee in roasters that have chaff collection issues, and you will have to reduce your batch size in all the other roasters due to the higher chaff content.

Indian Cherry Robusta
This is a blender coffee, use 10%-15% to add caffeine to your personal blend. This Robusta is a rich and bold cup, it is very full flavored.  A little earthy to be drinking it by itself but it will add a lot of character and caffeine to your favorite blend.

Laos Premium Naga – Gesha Washed Processed
Best at the light to medium roast levels. Light roasts themselves have a very sweet citric upfront, hints of floral in the aromatics with a little hint of darker toned contrast, nutty/cocoa/spice. A pinch of fruit as the cup cools but more down the citric alley. A little lighter bodied, complex and balanced. A very jazzy, sweet and delicate lighter roast bean with wonderful aromatics. Medium roasts reduce the citric and floral, smoother cup building a bit more body and showing more of what we classically think of Asian coffees, bolder with some spice notes. Assuming you are on the lighter side of a medium roast, you still get nice balance of tones in the cup, a strong medium roast to dark roast points, the coffee is much flatter, strong semi-sweet chocolate with herbal spice.