Showing posts with label Uganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uganda. Show all posts

10/04/2014

Elgon Mountain

Name: Elgon Mountain
Roaster: Home roast
Roasting degree: Full City
Area: Mt. Elgon, Uganda
Variety:  Typica
Grade: A
Screen: 16up
Altitude: 1,700 - 2,200m
Defect: None
Processing Method: Fully washed, 100% sun dried

【Flavor scale】
Aroma: 4
Sweetness: 3
Acidity: 3
Bitterness: 3
Richness: 4      
※Grade 1 to 5 
【Impression】
Light to medium light, calming, moca aroma, cacao, a touch of citrus, sweet orange, blood orange, watery, light texture, mellow but light, slight sourness of citrus, lime, kabosu-citrus as a top note, very thin layer, juicy sweetness of dried fruits follows, such as pineapple, mango, white fig, papaya, milk chocolate like cacao bitterness hidden, juicy and vivid sweetness as sugar cane as a long lasting aftertaste.

Mellow flavor and highly balanced bitterness-sweetness-acidity.  Very comfortable Mouth feel and suitable flavor for daily use. 

11/23/2013

Uganda BugisuAA

Beans: Uganda BugisuAA
Roaster: Beans Tei
Roasting degree: Medium
Area: Bugisu sub-region, Eastern Uganda
Altitude: 1,600~1,800m
Varieties: Typica
Processing: Washed, Sun-dry 
Screen: S18 up
Grade: AA 

【Flavor scale】
Aroma: 4
Sweetness: 4
Acidity: 2
Bitterness: 3
Richness: 3
※Grade 1 to 5
【Impression】
Medium body, aromatic, sweet and floral, caramel, red currants, cacao, apple flower, freshly baked whole wheat Baguettes, smooth in texture, gentle, well-balanced, buttery, mellow, rich fruity sweetness, chestnuts honey, raw almonds&cashew, bright but low tone bitterness as cacao beans, blackberry like acidity hidden, juicy sweetness as a long lasting aftertaste.

【Note】
Bugisu has been recognized as the finest coffee beans production area in the global coffee market.  There are hundreds of small coffee farms, maybe individual farmers, cultivating on the western side slope of Mt. Elgon, This lot is delivered from 49 micro farms on the west slope of Mt. Elgon which cultivate naturally.
A green beans broker emphasized "Natural farming", pesticides and chemical fertilizer free farming, as the recognized point of this beans.  However, this is cynic.  Any chemical farming "aids" have brought by the people, countries, that the brokers are selling the cultivation.  Both natural and organic farming were "usual" for the farmers in Bugisu, but now it seems "usual" has changed to the industrialized farming style.