Aceh Long Berry

Beans: Aceh Longberry

Roaster: Akai-mi Coffee

Roasting Grade: Medium

Area: Takengon Aceh, Indonesia

Varieties: 100% Native Typica

Grade: G-1

Screen: 17up

Altitude: 1200 - 1300m

Processing: Semi-washed Pulped Natural, Sumatra methods

           100% Sun-dried

【Impression】

 Medium body, clear smooth texture, nutty aroma with floral, dark chocolate flavor with rush of caramel with refreshing spice, nutmeg, grapefruit like acidity, lomony acidity as aftertaste.
soothing acidity and transparent clarity bottomed with rich sweetness, which derives from processing method.  Especially, sweetness always enhance and improves through Sumatra methods and this long berry has both in addition to enhanced uniqueness of beans given by nature. 




【Note】

Very rare 100% native typica from Takengon Aceh, located the northern end of Smatra island.  There are only two varietal  available, but this long berry is specially unique in Aceh area. 

Yemen Noah Super Sanani

Beans: Yemen Noah Super Sanani (Mocha)

Roasting Level: Medium Dark  

Roaster: Pussy Pussy-na

Area of Production: South Yemen

Grade: Super Sanani

【Note about this beans】
Yemen Noah Super Sanani is high quality Arabian Mocha cultivated in Yemen, which are rather small and irregular in size, but have wonderful body, aroma and flavor.  Legend has it that Noah, Yemeni capital Sana, is the oldest city in the world where had built by Noah after the Deluge.  

【Impression】  Floral deep aroma, earthy, spaicy flavor.  Dark but mild taste but light testure with sweet aftertaste.  Well harmonized flavor, different layers of sweetness with bitterness in bottom, gradually expand, gently "land-on" and mildly engage as flavor.  Fruity and flavorfull body.  "Flavor of this coffee...body...aroma....Hmmm.........  This certainly tastes COFFEE....but...."  There is a group of coffee sometimes makes me feel "too worthless to evaluate" and this Yemen coffee belongs to there.  Taste of beans and roasting grade, or maybe some other factors, are well harmonized enough to give strong impression: "I LOVE THIS!!  Why do I need to "chop" this well developped taste piece by piece??"   This coffee can be enjoyed anytime, no recomendation.  Have anytime to refresh your feeling!  Even you are in rush, this cup will pull you back and make you want to sit for while.      

Recommendation:  For preparation, it's better to use Burr mills or Roller grinders.  Using blade grinders, somewhat Pussy-pussy-na's beans were unevenly ground.  Basically, the blade grinders grinds unevenly and makes undesirable micro-level "coffee powder" more than other types of grinders.  For some reason, Pussy-Pussy-na's beans happen to have "beans" left in powdery ground beans, which make a cup bitter and taste charcoal-like.

Ecuador ANDES MOUNTAIN

Beans: Ecuador ANDES MOUNTAIN

Roaster: Pussy Pussy-na

Roasting degree: Full city

Area: Cascol, Manabi, Ecuador

Altitude: 500 ～ 2000m

Varieties: Catura

Grade: over 90% of SC18

Processing: Washed, Sun dried

                   Fully matured beans are washed,

                   sun-dried on patio to 12% of water amount.

RFA certified.

【Roaster's Comment】

Full flavored mild cup with light body, less bitterness, mild acidity.

【Impression】

Medium Body, bright and clear taste, airy texture.  Charcoal like bitterness from roasting, not from beans, but clear and sharp taste with a touch of lemony acidity hidden.  Sweetness of matured berries adds smoothness and softness to coffee flavor.  ANDES MOUNTAIN might fit better with lighter roasting grade, like light or city, since beans itself has thin and light flavor with light acidity.  This may fit with Vietnamese coffee serving methods.

     

Tove Blend

Beans: Tove Blend
Roaster: Ayako Tomio, PUSSY PUSSY-na Coffee
Roasting Degree: Medium Dark
Pussy Pussy-na's house blend Coffee, which affers Full body and dark mild flavor.

【Impression】
Dark body with creamy, silky texture.  Nutty, almonds like aroma mixed with citrus, lime like sourness and Jasmine like flowery aroma.  Bitterness as core flavor, light acidity and sweetness of grape, with bitter but nutty short aftertaste.

Good for Cafe au Lait or Cappuccino sweetened with honey.  Not surgery sharp sweetness, but mild natural sweetness might fit well with this coffee. 
 

【Note】PUSSY PUSSY-na's beans are somewhat fit better with Manual coffee grinder, cone type grinder, than blade grinder .  I usually use a blade grinder but, with PUSSY PUSSY-na's beans, I always ended up with having "whole beans", un-ground beans, left in powdered beans.   

Rwanda Muyongwe

Beans: Rwanda Muyongwe
           Tuzamure Kawa Cooperative


Roaster: Akai-mi coffee
Roasting degree: Medium
Area: Gakenke Province du Nord, Rwanda
Altitude:1300m
Grade: SHB EP
Screen: 15up
Varieties: Bourbon
Processing: Fully-washed, 100% sun dried

【Impression】
Clear and light body, Floral jasmine like aroma, airy soothing texture.  Ruby grapefruit like acidity mixed with goose berry, apricot sweetness with a tip of honey, short and light aftertaste.  Delicate feathery touch of bitterness after well harmonized thick layer of citrus acidity bottomed with mellow sweetness.
Soothing and refreshing for early morning, w/o milk and sugar .  No food pairing recommended since this cup is to enjoy taste of coffee.
2nd Cup brew with Kono Method: Light Medium body, silky texture, berry like aroma.  Fresh fruit sweet ness with nutty fragrant flavor , mellow El Salvador Cacao and chocolate like flavor as finish.

【About Muyongwe washing station】
Muyongwe is a washing station has been built as a part of Tuzamure Kawa cooperative system in 2006, located in the Gakenke district of the Northern Rwanda Province.  The coffee at Muyongwe is processed in the Kenyan style, meaning they de-pulp, separate quality by weight, ferment for 12 hours, wash vigorously 4-5 times, ferment for another 12 hours, wash, separate quality by density, and then soak for 24 hours. Finally, the coffee is dried on raised beds.
In 2007, Muyongwe earned the first place in Rwanda Golden cup and earned a reputation for its high quality.  Since then, Tuzamure Kawa has become the core member in COE competition.

PUSSY PUSSY-na

 

The very First beans from PUSSY PUSSY-na Coffee in Takamatsu, Kagawa. 

The package came with a hand-printed postcard, hand written message on the back.  Everything in the package was so cute and heartwarming!!  

There are thousands of coffee roasters and cafes in Japan lately, some focus on "Specialty coffee" and some "old good Cafe style.  Pussy Pussy-na has both characteristics together with a new feature: Art gallery.    

Surrounded nice pieces of art, photos, paintings, and etc., specialty coffee must taste wonderful and relaxing. 

Not visiting the actual store, I picked 3 different coffee beans out of the list.

Yemen, Ecuador, House Blend: “Tove Blend”

Tove Blend is named after by Tove Jansson, a Finnish writer!!

Moomin lives my childhood and so does the owner’s heart.

For your first shipment from new coffee roasters, it might be better to ask for "samplers" but, if the roaster is own by someone has grown up with Moomin, there is no doubt everything is tasty.

El Salvador Andalucia Estate

Beans: El Salvador Andalucia Estate
Raster: Akai-mi Coffee
Roasting Degree:
Estate: Andalucia Estate
Area: Ataco Auachapan, El Salvador
Grade:SHG
Screen: N/A
Altitude: 1200m

Varieties: Bourbon65％、Pacas 25%, Pacamara 15%

Processing: Fully-washed

【Impression】

Medium body, transparent clearness with depth, light texture, orange flower mixed with citrus aroma, moderate and well balanced flavor, decent acidity.  Citrus flavor with mild chocolaty bitterness like dark chocolate  and flavor in depth, sharp apricot sweetness mixed with ripe white grape, fruity thin layer of sweetness lightly covers well polished bitterness, sweet bitterness as a long lasting aftertaste.   


Thanks for Akaimi coffee, bland new aspect of El Salvadorian coffee has been opened by combination of this beans and roasting technique.