Description
Our first new crop Mexican Coffee! A super fresh daily drinker from medium to dark roasts.
This is small holder coffee, a community based aggregate coming from the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, where there are mountain ranges that provide higher altitudes and ideal climates for cultivating coffee. Grown on farms that average just a few acres in size. With this small scale production, each producer can carefully manage picking and sorting cherries to remove damaged and under ripe cherries. Each producer processes coffee with their own micro-mill where the coffee is depulped and fermented for 24 hours and then washed. The washed coffee in parchment is dried in the sun on patios before transporting the coffee to a centrally located dry-mill facility where the coffee is hulled and sorted by density and color in preparation for export.
Small holder coffee like this one are wonderful terroir coffees, the taste of the land.
Roasting Notes: Super fresh, we found these beans take just a pinch longer to roast then average. Medium to low chaff levels. Being an aggregate small holder coffee, it does not roast super even, but shooting for a medium to dark roast keeps it very easy to roast. This cup will mostly appeal to medium and dark roast fans. Although clean enough for a lighter roast, the weaker chocolaty notes do not leave the cup super distinctive. Medium roasts bring forth the nice chocolaty factor and its accentuated even more into the darker roasts. If shooting lighter, make sure to drop temps and bring it into 1st crack slower, helps even it up. Ideally one wants to shoot just a little past first crack for a lighter roast, if too close to 1st crack, can produce a bit of a grassy tone.
kenahuth (verified owner) –
Really loved this coffee. Roasted slightly into 2nd crack. Falls into chocolaty, maybe a little butterscotch flavor area ( to my untrained palate). Maybe not as well screened as some, we pitched quite a few bad beans (think like India MNEB).
Currently out of stock, or we’d buy more. There’s a similar Mexico from the same region & the same tasting notes, if you want to try that version.