Cascara and Qishr
Along with all the amazing coffees that shipped from El Salvador was a few vac packs of something different from Finca Mauritania - Cascara!
The Cascara is the dried outer fruit layer of the coffee cherry, typically considered either a waste product or sometimes used in compost. However - if done right the process can produce [...]
Open Cupping - 1st October
We haven’t had a cupping here for a while so the arrival of our coffees from El Salvador seems as good a time as any!
We’ll be cupping three coffees before they go live on the webshop and pulling shots of a single estate espresso we’ll be offering as well. Free entry - just shoot [...]
Exciting arrivals from El Salvador
Just a quick post because we are very excited, but there was great giddiness in the roastery today when the delivery truck pulled up with 4 pallets of coffee for us from El Salvador. We’ll talk more about the coffees once they are roasted the way we want and are up in the shop, but [...]
New Arrival - El Portillo
New in the shop today - the El Portillo, our Costa Rican CoE offering this year.
We’ve really been enjoying this coffee during its roast development, very sweet and pleasantly juicy. More details on the cup, farm and farmers in the shop.
We bought two bags of it, so don’t expect it to be around for [...]