Fresh Roasted Coffee Thread #3: now with 100% more vendor status, 50% less bootleg

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New Limited Release: Burundi Ngozi Bahire Double Washed!

Everyone loves Ethiopias and Kenyas, but origins like the Congo and Burundi don't get as much love, which is a shame, because they are just as capable of providing amazing coffee. This coffee is grown by a micro-group of producers under the guidance of JNP Coffees, which provides economic and empowerment programs, and ensures growers get paid far above market value for good micro-lots. This coffee is meticulously processed, and silky body delivers notes of caramel, cashew butter, juicy mandarin, apricot, and bergamot.

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This coffee is from a two year old regional association, in a lesser known region of Peru. Farmers in this area were out-muscled by predatory local buyers, and were not allowed direct market access. With the help of the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development, Cafe Origines was born. Café Orígenes invests in farmer soil fertility and farm resistance to disease, conducts quality control and lot building to maximize differentiation for farmers, and offers full price transparency to their buyers, and paying a premium to the farmer, Ermitaño Huillca Quispe.

Peruvian coffees tend to be full bodied and chocolatey, but typically not a whole lot else. This coffee is far beyond that: more caramel than chocolate, it's still full-bodied, but decadently sweet, with peach, raspberry, and citrus lime and orange notes, and buttery, toffy-like notes pervasive throughout. Makes a bangin espresso, if dialed in carefully, as well as immensely satisfying drip.

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New Limited Release: Peru Farmgate Mendosayoc Ermitaño Huillca Quispe Raised Bed Washed!

This coffee is from a two year old regional association, in a lesser known region of Peru. Farmers in this area were out-muscled by predatory local buyers, and were not allowed direct market access. With the help of the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development, Cafe Origines was born. Café Orígenes invests in farmer soil fertility and farm resistance to disease, conducts quality control and lot building to maximize differentiation for farmers, and offers full price transparency to their buyers, and paying a premium to the farmer, Ermitaño Huillca Quispe.

Peruvian coffees tend to be full bodied and chocolatey, but typically not a whole lot else. This coffee is far beyond that: more caramel than chocolate, it's still full-bodied, but decadently sweet, with peach, raspberry, and citrus lime and orange notes, and buttery, toffy-like notes pervasive throughout. Makes a bangin espresso, if dialed in carefully, as well as immensely satisfying drip.

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New Limited Release Colombia Huila Terra Verde Double Fermented Chiroso!

This is a notable coffee on several counts: it's from a very small group of producers focused on bringing amazing microlots to market; it's a unique varietal; and it's uniquely processed. The Terra Verde group is comprised of 120 growers in the Huila region, and they're striving to increase profits for their members, including family members of growers who, many times, work unpaid. This coffee is the 'Chiroso' cultivar, which, like the Gesha cultivar, is directly linked to the original wild Ethiopia lineage, not the most common Latin Caturra or Bourbon lineages, and beans have visual Ethiopia 'Longberry' characteristics. The coffee comes from 12 of the 120 Terra Verde producers, who allow bagged whole cherries to ferment for 36-48 hours, after which the cherries are depulped and fermented in dry open tanks for 30-50 more hours, then laid out for patio drying.

This coffee has the classic, massive chocolate syrup, cherry, and lemon zest notes of most good Huilas, but the Chiroso cultivar adds many layers of complexity: caramel hazelnut sweetness merges with spiced apple pie, cinnamon and clove, stewed stone fruit, and black Assam tea.

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Every country has a stereotypical flavor profile it's known for; Brazil's is chocolatey, nutty coffees. Of course, every country has a wild array of flavors outside of the sterotype, and this one is, well....other-worldly, and it's baked right into the name! This is from an area famous for UFO sightings, and the producer wanted to do something fun with coffee to highlight that history, including cool artwork for the coffee and bags (you can see the thumbnail if you hit the arrow).

This coffee is fermented anaerobically for 72 hours with Selvatech yeast, which raises cupping scores significantly, after which the coffee is laid out for sun-drying. Vibrant fruitiness is the over-arching theme, and while it has cacao, hazelnut, and marzipan, Bing Cherry and Concord grape notes quickly assert themselves, with jammy sweetness and buttery body reminiscent of a cherry hand pie, and vanille creme on top.

This one is fun. Really good, too!

[westcoastroasting]

Every country has a stereotypical flavor profile it's known for; Brazil's is chocolatey, nutty coffees. Of course, every country has a wild array of flavors outside of the sterotype, and this one is, well....other-worldly, and it's baked right into the name! This is from an area famous for UFO sightings, and the producer wanted to do something fun with coffee to highlight that history, including cool artwork for the coffee and bags (you can see the thumbnail if you hit the arrow).

This coffee is fermented anaerobically for 72 hours with Selvatech yeast, which raises cupping scores significantly, after which the coffee is laid out for sun-drying. Vibrant fruitiness is the over-arching theme, and while it has cacao, hazelnut, and marzipan, Bing Cherry and Concord grape notes quickly assert themselves, with jammy sweetness and buttery body reminiscent of a cherry hand pie, and vanille creme on top.

This one is fun. Really good, too!