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A good chance to try some super premium specialty coffee lots! Some legendary origins like Kona and Blue Mountain, and some award winning microlots.
Guatemalan COE Winning Lot #8B – Acatenango Valley Mama Cata – Gesha Washed
This cup defines the Gesha strain, one sip or one smell and you know you have something special. keep this lighter roasted! Sweet, clean, delicate with all sorts of flavor diversity. Jasmine tea like aromatics that cut right through in the cup tastes. Soft fruit tones (super clean, not like a natural), with a little lemony crispness balanced with a little black tea like spice in the aftertaste. A couple tasters thought it nailed both the jasmine and bergamot tones so sought after in the strain, bergamot was a little more of a stretch at lighter roasts, but pushing a medium popped right out, only downside, by a medium roast, the more jasmine like aspects were starting to burn out, so a fine line to get both in the cup.
Guatemalan COE Winning Lot #25 – Palencia El Tambor – Pacamara Washed
El Tambor, a familiar name of our coffee list! A wonderful award winning lot from one of our favorite Guatemalan coffee families. Took 25th place this year with this Pacamara Washed. Check it out here.
A lovely cup! Bolder than the Gesha coffees with equally as strong floral/fruitiness upfront. The fruitiness is more citric/tropical with a lot of depth to it, not like a fruit bomb natural. Even at the lighter roasts, it has great balance with a more tea like chocolate undertone. A bit fuller bodied with wonderful mouthfeel. Ending the roast right as first crack was subsiding, still a little sharp but turned out fantastic with a longer setup, the best roast point to accentuate the more fruity floral tones. Pushing a shade or two past first crack was a beautiful cup the next morning and brought out more rich and smooth darker undertones.
Hawaiian 100% Kona – Kona Hills Farms – Extra Fancy
Great balanced cup, lively acidity upfront at lighter roasts, very clean with a more chocolaty finish. Can be roasted from light to dark. The acidity is a bit citrus/floral, some soft islandy fruit tones can be found with lighter roasting, especially as the cup cools or the beans have a little longer setup time. From a medium roast on, the acidity is very gentle and balanced, cup is medium to full bodied with a smooth to rough chocolaty cup profile, milk chocolate before 2nd crack, bakers chocolate and smoky into 2nd crack.
Jamaican Blue Mountain – Flamstead Estate – Gr. 1 Flat Bean
Balanced chocolate tones with a bit of raised island acidity. A nice medium roast leaves a cool little semi-sweet caramel/toffee note. Darker roasts are a bit more traditional with this bean and get pretty creamy smooth chocolaty tones with just a finishing hint of unique JBM island character.
Panama Premium Boquete – Damarli Estate – Noble Geisha “Imperial”
A great light roast bean with some strong and bright fruit forward tones balanced with a bit of spice and stellar aromatics. Its always a bit harder to pick out those traditional Geisha tones with the natural processing but if you stick lighter, you definitely get them in the aromatics, some great almost jasmine like Ethiopian aromatics with this cup. Clean as a whistle with very noticeable lemony/floral acidity accompanied with some lovely red fruit tones. Sweet, delicate and well defined at the lighter roasts. A slight warning though, a fruit forward cup with higher acidity, lighter roasted, is not for everyone.
Panama Premium Boquete – Mama Cata Estate – Geisha Washed “Tona”
This cup stands out even among a table full of the worlds best coffees. Lighter roasts are where this cup is best served, good clean acidity, very sweet and floral, a bit of jasmine especially in the aromatics with clearly noticeable and very clean stone fruit tones balanced with a bit of tea like spice. Really an amazing soft and refined fruit tone for a washed processed coffee. Wonderful how the cup breaks what most think of washed processed coffees. With those Geisha floral and spice notes popping right out even at light roast points, a cup you Geisha fans will not want to miss. If you are used to washed processed Geisha, keep in mind this coffee tastes almost like a super clean rich honey processed coffee, it is not dark toned and loaded with some bergamot like many washed Geishas.
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