12/04/2013

Eleven Of Spades


Beans: Eleven Of Spades ~ Blend
Roaster: EXTRACTO COFFEE ROASTERS
Roasting degree: Medium

【Impression】
Light to medium, flavorful, lightly citric, chocolaty, almond flower, sweet, well balanced, smooth, juicy, fruity, top note sweetness of fresh pear, apricot and plum, Polysaccharides like slow sweetness, brown rice malts, plane almond milk, oat milk, clean bitterness, nutmeg like spiciness hidden, multi-layers of sweetness as a long lasting after taste.  

【Note】
First one to try for mellow coffee lover enjoys pour-over.  "Eleven of Spades" is Extracto's signature blend and the first one to recommend for first timers to bring home.  Eleven of Spade stays rather lighter compared to "Seattle roast" but reminds me of Blue Bottle in SF.






12/01/2013

Yamazakura

Beans: Yamazakura ~Blend~
Roaster: Sepia Coffee
Roasting degree: Medium 

【Impression】
Light to Medium, sweet nutty aroma as almond butter, maple syrup on a hot frying pan, slight citric tone as yuzu on the bottom, light texture, watery, juicy, well-balanced sweetness and bitterness, honey like layered sweetness, mellow bitterness, tint of fruity sourness, pear, black berry, blue berry, delicate and refreshing, juicy sweetness as a long lasting after taste. 

Yamazakura ”山桜" means Wild cherry blossoms.  This blend is characterized with fruity & flowery aroma combined with soothing after taste inspired by silently blossomed dark pink yamazakura.    
【Note】
Ymazakura is specially created for Cafe Yama by Sepia Coffee, coffee bottega Sepia in Sakaide city, Kagawa-ken.  The owner of Cafe Yama performs pour-over with HARIO and offer aroma-ful cup with their original blend, Ymazakura and Yamabuki.
These two beans can be purchased at Cafe Yama, Tadotstu in kagawa.

Cafe Yama:
1 Chome-4-38 Sakuragawa, Tadotsu, Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan