12/12/2014

Kagumo-ini

Name: Kagumo-ini
Roaster: Namamame Hompo
Roasting degree: Full City
Area: Mathira, Nyeri, Kenya
Variety:  SL28, SL34 and others mixed
Grade: AB
Screen: 15~17
Altitude: 1,600m
Defect: N/A 
Processing Method: Fully washed, 
                   African bed dried

【Flavor scale】
Aroma: 5
Sweetness: 4
Acidity: 4
Bitterness: 3
Richness: 4      
※Grade 1 to 5 
【Impression】
Medium dark to dark, sweet mellow aroma, dark chocolate, raw cocoa, coconut sugar, Cardamom, touch of Juniper berry, grapefruits and Meyer lemon as top note, silky texture, bitterness with creamy sweetness, earthy, cinnamon like spice, high tone citric acidity, candied orange peel, cacao nib, fruity sweetness, blood orange, satsuma mandarin, clean, tangy bitterness as a long lasting aftertaste.

【Note】
Kagumo-ini is a coffee mill that is part of the Mugaga Farmer’s Cooperative Society, near Karatina town in Mathira, produces higher quality coffee season after season.  Majority of Kenyan coffee mills produces high quality beans by following “traditional” Kenyan methods: hand-picking, hand-screening, water pulping, fermentation, soaking, washing, sun-drying on African-bed, and 30 to 40 days maturing in a wooden silo before refined.  At Kagumo-ini, These SL28 & SL34 cherries were hand-picked by the small farmers and processed with Kenyan method, processed with two fermentations and dried on raised beds.

12/09/2014

Carmo de Minas IP

Name: Carmo de Minas I.P.
Roaster: Home roast
Roasting degree: Full City
Area: Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil 
Variety:  Bourbon Amarelo (Yellow Bourbon)
Grade: N/A
Screen: 16up
Altitude: 1,100m
Defect: N/A 
Processing Method: Pulped Natural

【Impression】
Floral, roasted pecan, well balanced, very gentle and soft, clearn and juicy, dark chocolate with mixed nuts, pecan, almond, a bit of peanuts.  Lemon like citric acidity and dark chocolate bitterness as a long lasting aftertaste. 
【Note】
Formerly known as Fazenda Serrado, the Iamas Pereira (I.P) namechange is an attempt to differentiate the Farm name from being confused with the Cerrado coffee Region.  Pereira Estate is located Southern part of Estado de Minas Gerais, perched in the high mountains of the South Minas Water Spa Circuit, near the towns of Lambari.  This yellow bourbon has unique and definite acidity, very fruity, as the other Minas Gerais.  It is amazing to find single varietal beans have this rich and complex layered flavor.    

12/07/2014

Doi chaang Usami Estate

Beans: Doi chaang Usami Estate
Roaster: Nama-mame Hompo
Roasting Degree: City
Origin/Area:  Doi chaang, Chiang Mai District, 
                                                                      Thailand
Grade: AA  
Screen: SC14/15
Defect: less than 7%
Altitude: over 1,200 ~ 1,600m
Variety: Catimor
Process: Wahsed
Crop: 2013

【Flavor scale】
Aroma: 3
Sweetness: 4
Acidity: 3
Bitterness: 4
Richness: 5      
※Grade 1 to 5
【Impression】
Medium, mellow sweet aroma, Amaretto, GODIVA's milk truffle like, almond cream, star anise, Madagascar vanilla, juicy, lightly bitter, mild sweetness, raw cacao nib, well layered complex sweetness, caramel, matured star apple, lightly fruity, dried pear, dried nectarine, coconuts sugar, well balanced mellow creamy sweetness and bitterness, a tip of Dutch cocoa acidity to enhance sweetness, juicy sweetness as a long lasting aftertaste.