Description
New crop arrival from our friends at Carpenter Estates! Sigri AA is their top rated, best sort from the crop. Often the most sought after, but also the most expensive. Worth every penny in our minds.
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Papua New Guinea “The Wild West Of Coffee Production”
Papua New Guinea Carpenter Estates Coffee
Tasting Notes:
Good from light to dark. Smooth, big bodied & creamy with semi-sweet chocolate notes, nutty accents and a bit of lingering spice in the aftertaste. Lower acidity cup but will show some floral characteristics at the lighter roast points. A little roasty/smoky tone into second crack but it will compliment the more chocolaty and nutty profile.
Roasting Notes:
Good almost anywhere – i would still avoid real light roasts for you will find a bit of raw acidity and underdeveloped darker tones. City plus to as dark as you want to go. To see it shine, keep it closer to 2nd crack than first. An awesome darker roast cup, great for espresso, cold brew, or a more stout like drip coffee.
These Sigri Estate coffees are gems – nothing like your traditional PNG coffees. Almost a 0 defect screen with immaculate processing. You can just look at the beans and see the care and time that went into them. Sigri has been in a game for a long time but within the last 5 years has taken quality to a different level.
As with all of our relationships coffees, not only are they changing the coffee game for themselves, but also the whole area and region they are in. They are raising wages and education (and produce quality) for every farmer around them.
All coffee bearing the Sigri name is grown at over 5000 feet elevation. Sigri considers soil and water conservation a top priority, and the plantation is bird and eco-friendly. The plantation employs a medium density shade strategy, using two types of shade trees. This promotes even ripening of coffee cherries and provides habitat for at least 90 species of birds.
Sigri is a washed Arabica coffee and undergoes a rigorous wet factory process. Quality control begins in the field; cherry coffee is hand-picked and carefully checked for uniformity; it must be red and fully ripe which allows for the correct balance of sugar and acid within the cherry. This selected cherry is then pulped on the day of picking.
A fermentation process follows, a period of three days broken every 24 hours by washing – but unlike most other brands, the Sigri process follows this by total immersion in water for a further day, which creates a superior coffee. Careful conditioning of 21 days is followed by hulling, grading, color sorting and finally hand sorting. This combined with rigorous quality control before packing produces the finest green been for which Sigri is renowned.
All grades are then continuously sample-roasted and liquored by experts. This provides a final check on the quality of the green bean product, and is a practice unique in Papua New Guinea.
To learn more about Carpenter Estates coffees, see our recent blog article.
bcockman (verified owner) –
I’m very thankful I saw the email advertising for this. I was intrigued and now I’m verry glad to have this under my belt as one I want to keep in rotation. I roasted to a medium-light for my espresso. It was so smooth and a little flora as a stand-alone shotl. Making an iced latte out of it opens up the sweetness with light chocolate notes and is so delicious first thing in the morning. The green bean quality and size consistency is top. Thank you Burman.
Espresso Only
8oz roast
SR800 w/extension tube (no other mods)
Bean Cooler
Texguy (verified owner) –
Dang good cup. Slightly earthy in a good way that surprisingly reminds me of Jamaica blue mountain. ~30 seconds after the end of first crack in a fresh roaster with extended chamber maintaining 478° from FC to the pull. 250g green to 210g roasted. Pushing more heat in the beginning of the roast will give you more control of FC and pull times. Debating on ordering more for the winter.
John G Turner (verified owner) –
Read the description from Burman. And it is spot on. I love this coffee. It has become one of my favorites. Buying more……
Jeff S (verified owner) –
This coffee has an amazing creamy texture, it tastes of cocoa against a nutty background. Hands down the best PNG I’ve had in over twenty years.