East Timor Fair Trade

Beans: East timor Fair trade
Roaster: Beans Tei
Roasting degree: Full City ～　Dark
Area: N/A
Altitude: 1,200m～
Varieties: Arabica
Grade: N/A
Processing: Washed


【Flavor scale】
Mildness: 1
Bitterness: 4
Richness: 4
Aroma: 3
Acidity: 0
Sweetness: 1
※Grade 1 to 5



【Impression】
Rich body, clear, smooth velvety texture,  Cocoa like aroma with a little acidity (perhaps, from roasting), sweetness as roasted cashews, gentle bitterness as dark chocolate like bitterness, short lasting bitterness as aftertaste.  Well balanced flavor, creamy natural sweetness rapped with cacao bitterness, a tint of acidity gradually grows within bitterness at first and aftertastes on top of thick layer of mild bitterness.  Although sweetness grade is low in Roaster's Flavor scale, significant flavor characters of  this beans are sweetness, mildness, well balanced body and naturally fully matured flavor.  Delicious with rich sweets like something with dairy whipped-cream.  

【 Note 】

East Timor is one of the finest coffee producer, though the production is small in the global coffee context, less than one percent of the international total.  Nevertheless, coffee hold strong influence over East Timor's overall economy.  It is said that about one forth of population relies on foreign exchange related to coffee industry.  coffee  is one of the main source of foreign currency   Nevertheless, coffee is crucial to the country’s overall economy.  Since 1994, 16 organic cooperatives and nearly 500 groups have been organized by 19,000 micro-farmers/small-scale farmers.  In 2000, they developed the structure and founded/created a national cooperative structure known as CCT, the Cooperativa Café Timor , the organization of the organic coffee farmers of East Timor.  CCT represents and helps East Timorese farmers in market, process, transport, export and even improving farmers lives in all aspects.  CCT also has been taking great effort in developing status of   East Timorese coffee value in the global market. Not only from the business aspects, but also primary aspects the has CCT been helping the farmers under the name of the Clinic Cafe Timor, as a part of fair-trade program financed by USAID.   The Clinic Café Timor benefits and offers primary health services to the farmers and their families in rural/coastal Timor, who have been historically isolated from the mainstream of health services.  Over 115,000 people are supported  This program, according to the CCT.