Description
Garry’s coffee special features three of our more interesting coffees. Higher acidity, interesting processing, this bundle is leaning towards more exotic coffee tones.
*Bundles change over time. You will get the listed coffees at the time of order.*
A pound each of:
Nicaraguan Org. SHB EP Jinotega – Finca El Pastoral – Natural Processed
This is a very fruit forward cup of coffee, winy/floral/fruity/ferment are the predominate tones. A wonderful offering assuming you love fruit forward natural processed coffees.
What’s the best way to support coffee producers? This is exactly the question Juan de Dios Castillo (the family’s agronomist) and his 4 siblings were looking to answer when they created J&M Family Coffee, a privately-owned export company named after their parents Juan and Miriam (J&M). Their first goal was to sell their parents’ coffee directly to international buyers. It was a way to honor their parents who started cultivating coffee during their childhood with the income from the first family business as tailors in the town of Jinotega.
With this first goal completed, Juan de Dios Castillo decided to take the next step and start his own farm called El Pastoral, which has 150 acres of coffee production. During the harvest, the coffee cherries are carefully harvested, sorted and then depulped, fermented, washed and pre-dried at the farm. The partially dried coffee is taken to a nearby location where drying is completed and the coffee is stored and later prepared for export. This is a truly integrated model, in which J&M Family Coffee ensures quality control and traceability from farm to export.
Tasting Notes:A wonderfully complex light to medium roast coffee. Light roasts are lemony and floral upfront which fades to stronger apple like fruitiness with some red fruit accents, balances with a hint of a chocolaty darker tones. Medium roasts clean up the more rustic chocolaty tones which many will like but also reduce the sweetness and fruity factor of the cup, a little fuller bodied with low acidity with good mouthfeel, fruity factor pops out more as the cup cools. Darker roasts get a bit edgy with semi-sweet smoky and roasty notes, finishes with almost a bit of an oaky barrel aged tone.
Roasting Notes:Light to medium roasts are where this bean will shine. Good to get a little past first crack to get a slightly less earthy chocolaty contrast but tasty anywhere in the light to medium ballpark. Higher chaff and a bit uneven roasting, good prep and bean size though, shouldn’t be too challenging to roast in any machine.
Mexican Grupo Terruño Nayarita – Natural Processed
This is a co-op that holds a special place in our hearts. This coffee is from 100% traceable, directly traded micro-lots. Each bag is uniquely identified with a bar code and a serial number which can be used to see everything behind its production, click here to check it out. Gathered around an extinct volcano, Cerro San Juan, a committed group of 260 cooperative coffee farmers are working together to produce arguably the best coffee in Mexico. Terruño Nayarita coffees come from heirloom trees. The word ‘Terruño’ means ‘homestead’. These are farmers that take great pride in their coffee. This is the top screen-size/grade from the Terruño Nayarita Co-op.
San Cristobal Coffee Importers takes great care to find and produce excellent coffee, making sure farmers use safe, sustainable shade techniques and provide a fair wage to the workers. Check out their webpage:
San Cristobal
Tasting Notes:Always one of our favorite Mexican coffees. Good from light to dark. Although Natural processed, this is not a fruit bomb like many other natural processed coffees, has slightly fruity overtones that balance great with some citric, malt and nutty undertones. Its a little fuller bodied cup than most Terruno lots with above average sweetness. Lighter roasting will have noticeable citric crispness upfront and will accentuate the fruitiness and citric but show a little herbal. Medium roasts balance the tones nicely and smooth out the citric tones. Darker roasts turn more chocolaty, gets pretty roasty and smoky, retains a sweet edge and shows hints of fruitiness as the cup cools. A good daily drinker across the roast levels.
Roasting Notes:A nice medium roast is the way to go, can lean it a little lighter or darker depending on personal taste. Roasts pretty even for a natural but you will see a couple outliers, it is a bit higher chaff, we still put it in the easier to roast category.
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