Many will like it as a single origin drinker but this can be used as an awesome blend base. Pretty neutral tasting and adopts flavors blended into it easily. Brazil Mogiana 17/18 is produced by farmers organized around cooperatives in the Mogiana growing region split between the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, Brazil. […]
Coffee Profiles
reviews of green coffee beans, taste and roasting characteristics of premium coffees offered by Burman Coffee Traders.
YEMEN MOCCA AL-HAIMAH PEABERRY
Been a long time since we offered a Yemen coffee – we love them incredibly but with the political battles and atrocities taking place we avoided them. Recently we have gotten into some good discussions with coffee folks and the recent thinking is, good to support these Yemen farmers regardless of what is politically happening […]
TIMOR-LESTE WASHED ORG. MAUTLIO
A very tasty aggregate production (co-op called CBS) coffee coming from the Letefoho sub-district of the Ermera municipality in Timor. Similar to much of Indonesian, Timor has its own strain of coffee that naturally crossed an Arabica strain with a Robusta strain creating a wonderful hybrid that has now been used around the world. Although […]
PAPUA NEW GUINEA KIMEL ESTATE AA
Before we found some personal friends in Papua New Guinea, this is the coffee we used to rely on. Awesome folks even though at the time we had never met them. One of the few Estate produced coffees (a bit smaller than Carpenter) and located just a couple miles down the road. A couple years […]
KENYA NYERI BARICHU GATOMBOYA AA – TOP LOT
This is a top cupping lot from the Gatomboya coffee factory in Nyeri. Very tasty with some exotic acidic fruit notes upfront (grape/lemon/orange) and a strong classic and super clean chocolate spice undertone. This cup is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Gatomboya Factory (wet mill) in Nyeri County, Kenya. The Barichu Farmers Co-operative Society […]
KENYA KIAMBU KIRIGA ESTATE AB
Usually Kenyan coffee lose some of their track-ability through the mill aggregation model. This cup is cool for its an estate produced offering, where is came from and the folks behind it are well known. Kiriga was established in 1954 and currently has 130 acres of land in use for coffee cultivation, which stretches along […]
INDONESIAN SUMATRA MANDHELING UTAMA GRADE 1
This cup is sourced from family owned farms organized around the UtamaGro cooperative, located in the Takengon highlands of the Aceh province on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. UtamaGro cooperative currently has 1174 members. On average, producers cultivate coffee on 2.5 acres of land using their own micro-mills to depulp and dry coffee. The cooperative […]
INDONESIAN SUMATRA FTO TAKENGON SARA ATE
These beans are sourced from small scale producers associated with the Sara Ate Cooperative which was founded in 2011. Members of Sara Ate cooperative come from villages near Takengon, a well-known coffee town in the province of Aceh located at the northern end of Sumatra. The cooperative currently has approximately 517 small coffee producing members. […]
INDONESIAN SULAWESI TOARCO JAYA PB FULLY WASHED
The Peaberry is the rarity out of the three Toarco offerings, Indo plants just don’t throw off the amount of PB’s that many other countries have. Larger beaned and dense, awesome screen, this is a tasty offering, a little hard to justify the price over the AA but is a bit bolder in its tones. […]
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INDONESIAN SULAWESI TOARCO JAYA AA FULLY WASHED
AA is there nicest bean screen, a bit smoother than the A screen with an accentuated soft fruit tone. Just about as unique as you can get for a Sulawesi. Thick and creamy but the flavor profile is very far from your average semi-washed Indonesian cup. For years, this coffee was only available in Japan, […]
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INDONESIAN SULAWESI TOARCO JAYA A FULLY WASHED
DESCRIPTION Just about as unique as you can get for a Sulawesi. Thick and creamy but the flavor profile is very far from your average semi-washed Indonesian cup. For years, this coffee was only available in Japan, as the estate is owned by the Japanese roaster Key Coffee. In recent years they have made it […]
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INDONESIAN FLORES SEMI WASHED BAJAWA NGURA “KOMODO DRAGON”
This coffee is sourced from family owned farms located on the slopes of the Inerie volcano in the Ngada regency of Flores, one of the big islands in the Lesser Sunda archipelago of Indonesia. Over the last decade, a growing number of farmer groups have pooled resources to improve upon processing coffee using wet-hulling techniques […]
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INDIAN MONSOONED MALABAR
DESCRIPTION Indian Monsooned Malabar is a very unique and exotic coffee; usually people have a love/hate relationship with this bean but it is one of our top sellers year in and year out. Monsoon Malabar coffee is prepared from Arabica cherries (“cherry” refers to dry-processed coffees in India). After grading, the coffee is transported to […]
GUATEMALAN ANTIGUA LOS VOLCANES
DESCRIPTION This cup comes from family-owned farms located near the city of Antigua between volcanoes named Agua (water) and Fuego (fire) within the department of Sacatepequez, Guatemala. Coffee produced in the Antigua region has a protected designation of origin (PDO) because of Antigua’s renowned coffee reputation. Coffee is traditionally grown in this region under a […]
ETHIOPIAN YIRGACHEFFE GR. 2 WASHED GELANA ABAYA
DESCRIPTION A great and super fresh new arrival. Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Washed Gelana Abaya is sourced from small family owned farms located in Gelana and Abaya woredas (district). These two woredas are located in the Oromia Region in Ethiopia. Ripe cherries are carefully selected and immediately placed on raised beds that are constructed to ensure proper […]
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ETHIOPIAN ORG. NATURAL YIRGACHEFFE GR. 1 GEDEB – BOGALI TURKI TOP LOT
DESCRIPTION This Ethiopian Natural Yirgacheffe is a super tasty single farmer offering, a rare a very traceable bean. Bogale Turki, who produced this delightful dry processed batch of beans, farms coffee on a 30 acre plot in the Banko Chelchele kebele (neighborhood) of Gedeb woreda, south of Yirgacheffe and just west of the bulgy border with […]
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ETHIOPIAN NATURAL SIDAMO 3
DESCRIPTION This Ethiopian Natural Sidamo is put together by Grima Edema who has more than 20 years of experience exporting coffee from the Kercha district within the Guji zone in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Coffee producers deliver their ripe cherries to Grima’s washing station where the cherries are sorted an immediately placed on raised […]
INDONESIAN RFA ORG. BALINESE KINTAMANI NATURAL
DESCRIPTION A very unique, overly fermented (very fruity) cup of joe. Closer to a natural Ethiopian than other Indonesian coffee. Bali is a tiny island– actually, a submerged volcano peak – just off the east coast of Java, with many small coffee farms. The farmers who grow Kintamani Natural belong to cooperative organizations known as […]
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ETHIOPIAN ORG. NATURAL YIRGACHEFFE GR. 1 GEDEB GOTITI – TOP LOT 167
DESCRIPTION Easily one of my favorite Ethiopian lots of the year! Oh man, if only they could all taste this good. Although a little pricier coffee, this cup will show what an Ethiopian Natural can achieve. This coffee – similar to the last Hambela top lot is sourced from METAD Agricultural Development PLC (METAD). METAD […]
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HAITIAN SINGING ROOSTER HYBRID HONEY PROCESSED
DESCRIPTION *Wild cup with plenty of ferment notes We found a new source for some very cool Haitian coffees. The folks working on the ground in Haiti live right here in Madison, Wisconsin (at least some of them), they are called Singing Rooster. Singing Rooster is a non-profit that brings Haitian products (art, coffee, cocoa and […]
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