Name: Finca Buenos Aires
Roaster: Doi Coffee
Roasting degree: Full-City
Area: Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua
Variety: Maracatu (or maracaturra)
Grade: N/A
Screen: N/A
Altitude: 1,200～1,500m
Defect: N/A
Processing Method: Fully Washed
【Flavor scale】
Aroma: 5
Sweetness: 3
Acidity: 2
Bitterness: 2
Richness: 3
※Grade 1 to 5
【Impression】
Medium Dark, Dutch cocoa, honey, dry roasted wheat, wheat cereal, well balanced bitterness and sweetness, creamy, honey like mild sweetness, hazelnuts cream, almond chocolate, milky, fruity acidity as red apple, Gala and granny smith, natural sweetness followed by light acidity, mellow sweetness as a long lasting aftertaste.
Unlike how it look, this Maracatu variety in Nicaragua has delicate and sensitive flavor. So does Maragogype, sizey beans often requires sensitivity in roastin, although this may gives better flavor in deeper roasting degree.
【Note】
Lovely 'Maragogype' look, long nose huge beans. The Maracatu variety from Nicaragua is a hybrid of Maragogype and Caturra
Maracatu is a hybrid of Maragogype and Caturra in Nicaragua. Maragogype is considered as a natural mutation from Typica while Caturra as from Bourbon. Latin and Central America produces series of hybrid varieties from Coffea Arabica for more disease-resistant and more fruitful trees. Often new varieties has poorer cup quality, in terms of flavor, but recent specialty coffee movements motivates to “create” higher quality and sophisticated cups together with to adjust growth environments.
Name: Finca Alcatraz, Wilfredo Ule Vargas
Roaster: Sightglass
Roasting degree:
Area: Huila, Oporapa, Colombia
Variety: Caturra
Grade: N/A
Screen: N/A
Altitude: 1,780m～
Defect: N/A
Processing Method: Washed, patio dried
【Impression】
Light to medium light, citric, lemony, red grape fruits, concord grape, lime, Madeline orange, high in acidity, a touch of light tangy-ness as matured red wine, bitter persimmon, shinny and bright, lime like freshness as a long lasting aftertaste.
【Note】
Beautiful beans but rather small and rough surface.
Sightglass roast always leaves full of silver skin, chaff, which makes coffee flavor cloudy. There would be special technique to extract fine flavored coffee out of so called Scandinavian roasting beans, but I need more experience and blessings to figure out how. Some says silver skin creates an aspect of flavor, which could be true for the light-roast fans and supporters. In my opinion, coffee flavor could be more clear and more friendly if there are less chaff.
On cozy afternoon, if there are enough time to enjoy a cup, it could be better to sift after grind beans to remove "silver skin meal" before pour hot water.
Talking about Scandinavian roasting, Ritual Coffee carries highly edgy ones, "accelerated" raw beans flavors. Sightglass is lighter roasting but not "Scandinavian" enough compared with Ritual. U.S. "specialty" coffee has benefit of a bigger capacity and higher capability roasting machines: however, this lighter roasting movements may be the back way to minimize the benefits since lighter roasting technique are developed for/with small-batch machines w/ limited land benefit.
Name: Finca San Juan Microlot
Roaster: Doi Coffee
Roasting degree: Full-City
Area: La Libertad, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Variety: Caturra, Catuai
Grade: N/A
Screen: N/A
Altitude: 1,525m～
Defect: N/A
Processing Method: fully washed, patio dried
【Flavor scale】
Aroma: 4
Sweetness: 3
Acidity: 2
Bitterness: 4
Richness: 3 ※Grade 1 to 5
【Impression】
Medium, mellow, freshly baked vanilla cake, maple syrup, cocoa, roasted almond, a touch of lemon peel, chocolaty, silky texture, bold but smooth, deep mellow sweetness along with tangy bitterness, high citric acidity as a top flavor, raw cacao nib, roasted pecan, raw cashew, earthy spiciness, mild bitterness as a long lasting aftertaste. Acidity impression changes when cup is chilled.
【Note】
Unfortunately, there are not much information available about San Juan Microlot, besides the farm location. Located on a slope of Acatenango, a stratovolcano. Hope more transparency, though I understand Microlot farms are hidden treasure for importers in this specialty movement.
