4/06/2013

Colombia Maragogipe

Beans: Colombia Maragogipe
Roaster: Kashu
Roasting Grade: Full city


Here is my favorite coffee from daily, friendly choices.
Is this specialty coffee?  Is this single origin??  Is this from COE winning farm?
I do not know and I do not bother to ask those questions, because I know how good they are.
They select wonderful beans, so called “premium beans”, all over the world and always offer freshly roasted.  They also carry 2 to 3 seasonal offer of single beans, together with their regular selections, both blends and single beans.  Maragogipe is one of regular selections, which has clear fine taste with light silky body, and dark cacao like bitterness/sweetness with a touch of yuzu-citrus like sourness. 


Maragogipe, also called "elephant bean", is a variety of Arabica which produces extreme large size beans.  As picture shown, Maragogipe has almost three times bigger than usual coffee beans, but has rich and dense flavor.  Due to the size, roasting is often "challenge" for the roasters.  Flavor of coffee always depends on roasting and this beans show it more obvious.  If your favorite roaster has Maragogipe, maybe it is the one to try.    

4/04/2013

Ruvuma AAA


Beans: Ruvuma AAA
Raoster: Akai-mi coffee
Roasting Degree: Medium
Area:  Ruvuma Region, Mbinga, Tanzania
Altitude: 1,200 -1,800m
Varieties: Burbon(N5,N39)
Processing: Fully-washed
Screen: 18 up
Grade: AAA 


【Impression】
Micro size, tiny bitty beans!  Assuming the Bourbon variety. 
Sweet and round aroma, Medium body with lightness, clear lemony acidity layers over earthy bitterness with sour-bitter aftertaste.  Nothing similar to any other Tanzanian Coffee I have ever tasted...
Well harmonized flavor and aroma, Acidity comes first and  stays to the end.