3 lb Bundle: Popular

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Jon’s coffee special features three of our most popular coffees.
This bundle includes:

*Bundles change over time. You will get the listed coffees at the time of order. *

Peru Cajamarca FT Org. – Lima Coffee – Norte Top Lot

Rony Lavan is an ambitious and quality-driven cupper who has spent his career trying to carve out better and bolder coffees from small producers in Peru. While the country is emerging as a specialty market after many years of focusing on bigger lots and certifications, Rony’s passion is with identifying and developing the top scores and the best cups.

As president of the Lima Coffees exporting organization, Rony has already established himself as standing at the fore of microlot-quality coffees in Cajamarca. His first year with Lima Coffees, he entered the national competition and won; with the introduction of the Cup of Excellence competition to Peru in 2017, the country is poised to enter the international spotlight for its finest offerings. Rony and his coffees will be the ones to watch.

Tasting Notes: A very clean & jazzy Peru offering. This cup has awesome depth of flavor and is best medium to dark roasted. Lighter roasts have some stronger lemony floral acidity, some herbal, some fruit skin, and a bit of dry nutty, a stretch to caramel like but a couple folks noted it during our tastings. Good lighter but we though even better at a medium roast, developed more of a chocolaty sweet tone, fuller bodied, with reduced acidity & hints of spice. Lingering nutty/caramel tones in the aftertaste.  Darker roasts turn strong and edgy but retain good sweetness; mostly chocolaty with some smoke and toasty tones.

Roasting Notes: Easy to roast and good from light to dark. Not a high acidity coffee but if you roast it light, it will have some. Medium and darker roasts will be low acidity. Set-up helps get a smooth cup – day two really brought the cup together nicely.

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Nicaraguan Premium Selva Negra – Mirador Washed Processed

Nicaraguan Selva Negra coffee is cultivated in the most ecologically sustainable and socially responsible way possible.  Learn more by reading our Selva Negra Grower Profile.

Selva Negra’s history is in many ways the history of the coffee in Nicaragua altogether. In the 1880’s the Nicaraguan government invited young German immigrants to come and settle in Nicaragua in order to promote coffee growing in the northern highlands. Many accepted the offer, thus forming the main coffee plantations of the country; some estates bear names of their motherlands. Selva Negra means Black Forest, and the coffee estate is called La Hammonia, Latin for Hamburg. Located approximately 4,000 ft. above sea level, La Hammonia has been producing fine old style Arabica coffee for over 100 years. Eddy Kühl & Mausi Kühl-Hayn, the farm’s proprietors are descendants of two of these original German immigrants – Alberto Vogl and Klaus KÜhl.

Selva Negra Estate Coffee is grown at a high altitude in a shaded environment. This allows the bean to have a slow development cycle which instills an intense and fulfilling flavor to each bean. The coffee is not only 100% Arabica, but more importantly it is mostly Bourbon and Typica strains (which produce higher quality beans than other varieties of coffee trees). The region of Matagalpa, Nicaragua is mountainous with excellent volcanic soil producing exceptional beans. Finally, the coffee is prepared using an environmentally friendly washing process, which gives the coffee still one more unique quality enhancing aspect.

Tasting Notes:
A very clean and fresh batch from Selva Negra. A little citric & floral acidity upfront, balanced with nice complex nutty & malty undertones. Light roasts are going to be a little front loaded with the brighter characteristics, a higher rated cup meaning one will notice some decent crisp acidity at the light-medium roasts. Will give great depth of flavor but may be a little sharp for some. Our favorite roast and a great everyday drinker was in the medium roast ballpark, builds more of a smooth and creamy cup with a sweet edge, reducing that perceived acidity to just a pinch. Turns much stronger, a robust cup most would say, into the darker roasts but shined nicely; fuller bodied with strong malty and smoky tones, still a sweeter edge to it which darker roast fans will love.

Roasting Notes:
A little more challenging to roast but luckily tastes pretty good no matter where you roast it to. Error lighter than darker when playing around. Although this cup tastes like a nice Ethiopian natural, it will roast much more two toned. When shooting for a nice light roast, judge it by the lighter shades of beans, make sure they get through first crack then cool it out. A speckled roast is normal, you will see 2-3 shades of beans when done roasting, this coffee is produced to give those results.

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Panama Premium Boquete – Finca Maestra Chela – Catuai Washed

Finca Maestra Chela is our buddy Keith Pech’s aunt. Keith is owner of Damarli Estate and his whole family has coffee in their blood. Her farm is located right above Damarli Estate and is only 2 hectares (a little under 5 acres), which is real small for a coffee farm, boutique production all around. Starting at about 1600m, the farm is actually a little higher up the mountain than Damarli Estate. Keith and his father do all the processing for her. A lovely new addition to our Panama lineup.

Keith normally doesn’t do washed processed coffee but with the Catuai strain, it created the perfect match. They still brought some science into the processing and while the coffee was in its short fermentation soaking to get the fruit off (open air tubs), they added their proprietary yeast mix which adds a wonderful depth of flavor and sweetness.

A stellar example of a washed processed Panama, not all fruity and wild like many of the other offerings, a wonderful traditional style cup.

Beautiful beans and screen of coffee, similar to the other Panama’s, these are basically 0 defect gems. Not your average coffee by any means. High scoring, crisp and clean, great from light to dark.

Tasting Notes: We thought it best right around a medium roast; balanced and sweet. Hints of sweet citric floral upfront comingle with smooth defined malt like tones, just the tiniest hint of a fruity factor in the aftertaste. Lighter roasts get much crisper, dominated with more floral citric fruit tones, lemony most would say but does still show a little malty undertone. Darker roasts cut out the more floral aspect of the cup and are very rich and smooth, more semi-sweet but still very malty, into second crack adds some complimenting smoky tones. Hard to find a bad roast point with these beans.

Roasting Notes: A very easy to roast coffee, even roasting with medium to low chaff. Darkens up a little quicker than many other central American coffees, so keep an eye out for first crack to mark your lighter roasts. A jazzy cup, setup will help smooth out the cup and pop out all the little exotic notes. 2-3 days is ideal but we still found it tasty right out of the roaster.

Damarli Estate is a specialty coffee farm located in Boquete, Panama. The estate dates back to 1995 when David Pech, a photographer in the United States and his wife Lia Pech (Ruiz) bought the farm from a bank foreclosure. Lia’s family, the Ruiz family, had been heavily involved in the coffee industry in Boquete for four generations; thus David and Lia were encouraged to get involved with the family industry as well.

Damarli, as a name came from a combination of the original investors: David and Lia and David’s father and mother (Manfred and Ruth Pech) – DA- for David, MA- for Manfred, R – for Ruth and LI – for Lia.

The estate was planted in 1996 and began to produce in 2001. For over one decade Damarli Estate sold the raw coffee cherries to Casa Ruiz, which was Lia’s family’s coffee business. In 2014, David and Lia’s son Keith moved from the United States to Panama in order to begin a new project at Damarli Estate. This was the beginning of a new chapter for the beans.

Keith began to identify all the unique coffee varieties that were grown at Damarli Estate and market them internationally. Keith and David began to process their own coffee at the estate in a way that would create sweet and unique cup profiles that had little to no water waste. They built a house on the estate to accept visitors, a new mill and drying beds to process all the coffees and a coffee tasting lab to accept international buyers. Damarli Estate is a beautiful farm filled with tropical birds, tall canopy forests and enchanting sunrises.