11/01/2009

Organic Peru Cusco


Beans: Organic Peru Cusco (certified organic)

Roaster: Hiro coffee
Origin/Area: Cajamarca (Departamento de Cajamarca), Peru
Growers: PERHUSA Co-op Farm,
Altitude: 1,500 ~ 2,000m
Variety: Typica, Catura, Bourbon
Process: Over 20hrs farmentation, washed, Sun dried
Grade: SCAA84
Screen: 16up
Crop: 2009
Roast: Medium High roast

Attribute scores
Aroma 3
Acidity 4
Body 2
Biterness: 1
Mildness: 3


10/30/2009

Finca Miralvalle


Beans: Finca Miralvalle
Roaster: Doi Coffee
Roasting degree: Full city
Area: Ahuachapán, El salvador 
Varieties: Paca-mara
Altitude: 1,500~1,650m
Processing method: Fully washed
Shade Grown, COE winning farm in 2007


【Impression】
Floral-fruity sweet aroma, silky, smooth, complex bursting flavor with fresh citrus, orange,like sweet acidity, sweetness of brown sugar, deep-woody-chocolatey body, note of fig on the finish

8/07/2009

Blue Mountain #1

Beans: Blue Mountain #1
Roaster: Hiro coffee
Roasting Degree: Medium
Origin: Clydesdale, Jamaica
Altitude: 1,000m

Note
King of coffee from the heart of blue mountain.  Well balanced  aroma, body and acidity, milky, orange like acidity, milk chocolate like silky sweetness with nutty flavor.  

Clydesdale estate produces high quality Blue Mountain and the flavor comes out only when roster hears beans' talk.  Blue mountain is luxurious beans, sometimes too high priced to "try", unless we know a roaster well. 

6/06/2009

Cerro Del cielo farm


Beans: Cerro del Cielo
Area of production: Mozonte, Nicaragua
Estate:Cerro del Cielo

【Impression】
Flowery aroma, cocoa like silky texture.  Apricot and Fresh plum like delicate but fruity flavor, a long lasting aftertaste of bitterness and sweetness.

Note】
Cerro del Cielo is located in Mozonte, where the most excellent coffee beans are grown among Municipalities s in Nueva Segovia Department , where various number of COE winning estate are located.

6/01/2009

Gran Delval


Beans: Gran Delval
Roaster: Hiro Coffee
Roasting Degree: Medium 
Region: Boquete, Chirqui, Panama
Rain forest alliance certified

【Impression】 
Sweet, Clear, light, full layer of flavor, cacao, orange, apricot

5/03/2009

AGEHA


If you are Vegan and looking for a place to dine -in, this might be one of few in your choice.  Ageha is not fantastic but good enough to help Vegan/Macro's survival.   


Japan is somewhat one of the toughest place to live for Vegans.  Macrobiotic practitioners often dream and carry a myth of this country 
but truth, I found, was something different.  Surrounded by Ocean, Japanese cooking is rooted in marine products: Fish is the main source to make broth, besides seaweed, such as kelp, and Shiitake Mushrooms.  In addition to this, "modern" Japanese culture is strongly influenced by western, American & European of decade ago, although Japanese became the base of US food pyramid model.  Surprising to know, these people are such a junk/meet eaters!!   

There are few more cafe if you really look for.  Always, information brings the key for survival.

4/25/2009

Costa Rica

【Impression】
Light touch, sweetness of fully-ripened muscat, touch of lemon zest, and smooth texture with very clear after taste.
Taste of Costa Rica coffee is often characterized with "Apricot flavor" and "Floral", but this does not caught.