Aromatics Edition

Blueberry Tasting Notes: Softed, sweet blueberry on the front of the palate, longing aftertaste like dry champagne.  Tropics Tasting Notes: Tangy, lush mango, pineapple, honied orange.
Cupping Scores: 93
Bean Weight: 12 oz

For the past 3-4 years, mother nature has not produced an affordable fruit-forward coffee.  Gesha varietals - from $60 to $100 a bag - have been the closest offering and those are tempermental at best to leave a lingering and unmistakeable fruited note with the consumer.  At selected farms, a very limited and virtually exclusive bio-chemistry has undertaken different approaches of fermentation, from blueberry washing tanks to sun-dried fruit on natural fermentations.  We have profiled these deliciously as medium roasts but they are lighter medium roast with "development stages" calibrated to hold the fruited notes.  These are virtually always lost in deeper medium profiles or dark, where time and temperature cook out the flavor and impose a woody characteristic that you often find on any bean.  What we can say about this batch is that prolific espresso can still be made with these beans - just grind tighter and lean toward 204 degrees with your espresso boiler.  We tasted true fruit throughout the shot, black, light-honied black, and lightly-creamed espresso.  If you are making espresso with dairy, the rule of thumb is that any fat will mask the precious acids that carry the flavors, but you can cup to taste — it's a beutiful cup.