It’s time to renew the coffee offerings again, and among the freshly harvested and shipped coffees this season we’ve found some gems that will shortly be arriving in the shop! Broadly speaking, this time a year it’s the coffees from South America, East Africa and Indonesia that are new and fresh, and among the first to land at the roastery will be:
Obispo, Hulia, Colombia
Kopabakagi Red Bourbon, Karongi, Rwanda
Tegu AA, Nyeri, Kenya
Ngunguru AA, Nyeri, Kenya
Blackburn Estate AA, Ngorogoro, Tanzania
Ache Takengon, Sumatra ( yup, it’s back!)
(Some treats from Bolivia and another couple of Colombias are also on the way, plus some Yemen if the next batch of evaluation samples prove interesting!)
So these are the new crop coffees we’re waiting for, and they’ll be replacing the current non-espresso offerings. (Spring Espresso is mere weeks away, watch this space!) But in addition to those we’ll shortly be bringing the Finca Kilimanjaro, El Salvador, and Finca San Jose, Nicaragua, into the shop. These two are technically not new crop coffees anymore, and we wouldn’t normally be stocking them during springtime. But as we were lucky enough to have these two crops shipped and stored in vac packs, they have preserved their freshness for much longer than if they’d been in jute. Our subscribers have had little previews of these two over the last couple of months, and it’s been really interesting for me to roast these coffees, as they’re nearing the end of season by the calendar but acting as if they just got off the boat. Vac packing is not yet a widespread procedure but the benefits we’ve seen in the cup have been undeniable, as we see little difference in the flavour quality between the batches we sneakily roasted for ourselves when they arrived some months ago and what we’re tasting now. In fact, as another vac pack experiment we might look at getting in a tiny bit of some Ethiopias that have been kept in Mylar since June, we suspect they’ll still blow our socks off!
We hope you’ll also find it an interesting experience to drink these coffees next to the new crop ones, judging from the feedback from the subscribers the small quantities we have left should sell out pretty fast! But fear not- Aida (who runs Finca Kilimanjaro) is in fact in the middle of harvesting this year’s crop as I write, and we’re really excited to be offering more from her farms when they’ll be shipped across to us come summertime.
Until then, hurrah for new coffees! We hope you will enjoy!
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Oh sounds yummy! The Tanzanian has me curious. Never tasted a Tanzanian before. Kenyan’s always something to get excited about. Can’t wait
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10:04 pm
