Beans: The Agricultural Cooperative Chojzunil (Chojzunil)
Roasting degree: Medium dark
Roaster: Coffee Kobo Higuchi
Area of production: Chojzunil, santa eulalia,
Department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Grade: SHB
Screen: N/A
Altitude: ranges around ：1,300m～1,800m
Defects: N/A
Processing: hand picked, fully washed, sun-dried
Variety: Typica, Bourbon
FLO Certified organic, Fair trade
【Impression】
Full bodied, fresh roasted almond and cacao like sweet aroma, juicy vivid citrus flavor and tangy acidity of lime combined with condensed pomegranate syrupy sweetness, moderate bitterness of dark chocolate with pecan nuts crisp flavor, well-harmonized and balanced elegant flavor.
This will give good flavor with both Americano and Espresso, and may give good harmony with milk Hand brew for morning macchinetta in the afternoon.
【The Agricultural Cooperative Chojzunil 】
Located 269 km NW from Guatemala City, Huehuetenango is the home for high quality coffee beans where Chojzunil, santa eulalia village is hidden. This village is blessed with wonderful environments to cultivate coffee beans: foggy, larger difference of the morning and evening temperature. There are about 150 enthusiastic coffee farmers organize The Agricultural Cooperative Chojzunil and focus on organic farming. Although environmentally rich for coffee cultivation, their cultivation were not rich enough due to low level of knowledge in farming. So, some farmers voluntary formed co-op to learn agricultural technology from FEDECOCAGUA to improve quality of their cultivation.
The Agricultural Cooperative Chojzunil is now one of the best micro lot coffee farming estate/mill in Guatemala grows their coffee organically and supports their lives of the village.
Beans: Kenya Kangunu
Roaster: Coffee Kobo Higuchi
Roasting degree: Medium dark
Area of production: Murang'a, 140km NW of Nairobi, Kenya
Kangunu coffee Factory
Grade: N/A
Screen: N/A
Altitude: ranges around ：1,750m
Defects: N/A
Processing: Washed
Variety: Bourbon
Yr of cultivation: 2011
UTZ CERTIFIED
【Impression】
Medium to light, full body, lemony and pink grapefruits citrus aroma, fruity acidity, blackberry and cranberry, combined with dark chocolate like sweetness bottomed with pomegranate syrup, light clear bitterness, complex structure bitterness cored as long lasting aftertaste with tangy acidity. Vivid, lively flavor and aroma with complex flavor.
Unlike the most Kenyan coffee, this Kangunu lot leaves strong citrus impression of pink grapefruits with juicy sweetness rather than earthy spices.
A package From Coffee Kobo Higuchi has arrived! "Kobo" means a small factory like "an atelier", in Italian "bottega", with metaphor of craftsmanship. Certainly, the roaster, Mr. Sehichi Higuchi, refers himself as "a craft-man".
The package contains "Trial set", 300g of freshly roasted coffee beans, three different single origin 100g each with the certification such as Rain forest Alliance, Fair-trade label and so on. How surprising it is to know this costs only 1,000 JPY!
This time, it includes: Kenya Kangunu, El Salvador Las Nubes, and The Agricultural Cooperative Chojzunil, Guatemala.
The specialty coffee boom has aroused public interests in coffee cultivation process, including estates and mills, and has changed the coffee market structure. Now, single origins and estate/mill bland coffees become highly accessible with wider selection with sometimes special price like this. Flavor of coffee relies on both quality of green beans and roasting techniques, so these type of "trial package" reduce barriers to taste arts of new coffee roasters. Reviews will follow as they are tasted and now wish these coffee beans have lively tastes as their aroma is.
