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Peru "Chanchamayo"
Organic/Fair Trade
Gentle, subtle, and light on the pallette, the floral aroma is delicate and easy to miss. Do not rush this coffee, relish in a relaxed setting.
Generally a mildly acid coffee, light-bodied but flavorful and aromatic, Peruvian generally resembles the coffees of Mexico. Like Mexican, it is considered a "good blender" owing to its pleasant but understated character. Peruvian also is often used in dark roasts and as a base for flavored coffees. Wet-processed coffee from the Chanchamayo Valley, about 200 miles east of Lima in the high Andes, has the best reputation of the Peruvian coffees. The Cuzco region, particularly the Urubamba Valley, also produces a respected washed coffee, and some good certified organic coffees from Northern Peru are now appearing in specialty-coffee stores. |
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Colombia "Tima"
Colombia Tima - Organic, Fair Trade, Shade Grown - Mellow, rounded flavor, full body, sweet delicate aroma, and perfect balance, with overtones of fruit and roasted nuts. First planted by Spanish missionaries in 1808 and grown in the foothills of the Andes. Like our other coffees, these beans are entirely hand-picked - it would be impossible to do otherwise given the incredible steepness of the slopes and the banana trees that provide shade. |
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Colombia "Supremo"
This gourmet coffee has large beans, consistently good taste, medium body, full aroma, and medium acidity. A good 'daily' coffee, it harmonizes well in blends. This is the bean many now-serious connoisseurs became hooked on before totally abandoning stale, mass-produced store-bought grounds. |
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Costa Rica "Diamonte"
This Costa Rican coffee is referred to as a "classically complete" coffee -- a sweet aroma, full body, pleasant acidity and a delicate clean aftertaste with rich chocolate and nutty undertones.
This is going to sound ridiculous, but this coffee has a lot of "coffee flavor". I just don’t know how else to describe the clean, balanced charm of this cup profile, and it has been like this for years. We have been stocking the La Magnolia, a coffee milled to exacting standards, for quite a few years now. The coffee comes from a small beneficio, and used to be sold exclusively in Europe. And year after year this mill is producing a consistently excellent cup under the classic La Magnolia trade name. Each year I put it up against all the other Costa samples in a blind cupping, and it simply shimmers. By now it's no surprise when I turn over the I.D. card for the sample and see it's the La Magnolia. There are both mid-range floral and hazelnut hints in the dry fragrance, along with a mild secondary aroma of caraway seed. The wet aromatics turn much more lively and dynamic, with citrus-flower blooms and the smell of sweet bread baking. The cup has a light body and a mild intensity to match, a beautifully delicate and refined cup. It has nippy tangerine-citrus flavors with just a twist of rind, a crystalline sugar sweetness, and a beautifully sweet finish. Roasted to a City+, this is one of the most beautiful and delicate coffees my palate has had the pleasure of enjoying (note that FC is a great roast this year - see below). It is especially true with the La Magnolia that any dirtiness in your brewing system will show up very clearly in this cup, about as desirable as stepping on a thorn ... so keep your stuff clean and enjoy this sweet nuanced cup! I think it's a more complex cup than previous years, but still has the top end of the flavor spectrum, that crystal clear brightness that defines the really good Costa Rican coffees. I was joking with someone that this coffee has such a clean, delicate cup, you could use it to test the quality/cleanliness of coffeemakers. If you pick up any bitter, acrid note, clean your coffeemaker, because it definitely isn't the La Magnolia causing it! |
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Ethiopia "Yirgacheffe"
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe ranks among the best African coffee. Ethiopia produces some of the most varied and distinctive gourmet coffee beans in the world.
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe adds a soft, fragrant, flowery note that is complex to the palate with a long resonant finish. |
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Guatemala "Trapichitos"
Rich body, spice and chocolate flavors with a clean finish. The high mountains shrouded in mist on the volcanic slopes of southern Guatemala produces one of the most distinctive and desirable gourmet coffees . With its surprisingly deep, rich body and muted overtones, this Guatemalan is perhaps closer in some characteristics to Indonesian coffees than it is to other Central Americans |
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Guatemala Swiss Water Processed DeCaf
SWISS WATER DECAFFEINATION PROCESS
We only use beans decaffeinated using this process. And this process uses only water. You can trust that your coffee was never subjected to chemicals.
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Cloudship Custom espresso blend
A very nice blend of central and south American beans that produces a very distinct flavor for those who favor a daily espresso. |
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| Organic Green
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~152 lb bags |
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Auburn, Washington or New Jersey |
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~1000 lbs |
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We
purchase our organic coffee directly from small, family, farmers in Peru
and ship to you. It is our goal to provide you with the best coffee that
Peru has to offer. You will experience mildly acidic coffee, light to
medium in body BUT flavorful and aromatic.Organic
coffee is grown and harvested in ways that are gentle to the Earth and
its people. Coffee is the world's second largest agricultural polluter.
But 100% certified organic coffees are grown without petroleum based pesticides
and fertilizers.Conventional
coffee farms pollute the land with so many petro-chemical compounds that
within a matter of 7-12 years the land can be rendered competely sterile.
This means that coffee farmers are continually overtaking new, fertile,
plots of land in order to grow their beans.Organic
farmers, however, rotate crops and intersperse fruit and nut trees within
the coffee plantation. This ensures that the rich nutrients in the soil
are constantly replenished, allowing the same plot of land to be used
for generationsAdditionally,
organic farming methods replenish the Earth, build a healthy top soil,
and prevent thousands of acres of tropical and subtropical rainforests
from being destroyed each year. This in turn supports a more healthy and
vital rainforest ecosystem which means a more stable and healthy Earth
for us all.Peruvian
Chanchamayo or Tingo Maria area's produce a very nice coffee it is a smooth,
delicate coffee with a good body. Almost all coffee growers in Peru traditionally
grow their coffee organically and this our coffee is no exception.Our Peruvian
Chanchamayo Estate coffee is grown near the city of Monteseco in Northern
Peru, at an altitude of 5,000 feet, 100% Gourmet, North American export
quality, Arabica beans.Our Tingo
Maria Estate grown coffee is in grown near the city of Tingo Maria in
Central Peru, at an altitude of approx. 7,000 feet, 100% Gourmet, North
American export quality, Arabica beans.
To
place an order send a note to any of the addresses above or an email to:
Sales@HuanucoCoffee.com.
A portion of EVERY sale goes to help poor children in the mountains surrounding
Huanuco, Peru.
Erika
Orihuela Rojas
August 29, 2001 |
Peru
Organic/Fair Trade Chanchamayo
Peru has rapidly become the leader in Organic coffee for South America,
but a focus on volume isn't always a good thing! After all, are we
who enjoy coffee interested that the cup in front of us came from
a co-op that sells 20 containers a year at a lower price than, say
Bolivia. Or do we want the cup in front of us to have the best cup
quality possible? It is quality, not quantity, that is at the heart
of Specialty Coffee, or else we would all opt for a cup of Folgers.
So buying Peruvian coffees is a risk, and you have to cup a lot of
samples that have serious cup defects before finding the truly special
Specialty cups. To be very honest, this year the new crop lots have
been mediocre. A lot were "rushed to market" and you can
taste it in the cup; underdeveloped flavors with a "green"
cast to them. I get green bell pepper in the cup with these early
crop offerings. So I waited and this is what, eventually, I found
that was really what a Peru should be. This is a Chanchamayo coffee
from the La Florida co-op. This co-op produces a lot of coffee and
they send a lot of it to the US. The lots can vary, and they are not
always good, so I don't want you to think that just because it is
from a co-op we have had success with in the past that it is automatically
good. What this Peru has, that many don't, is a sweet, bright, clean
finish to the cup. When I taste that grassy or green pepper vegetable
flavor in a Peru, I get depressed ... but not here- this cup is inspiring.
It's what I call crowd-pleasing coffee, good "house coffee",
not some sort of Gran Cru epiphany to write verses over ... but solid
good coffee. It has spice hints and good acidity (not biting or sour,
just moderate acidity to balance the cup). And, as I said, it finishes
sweet and clean. You can do a lot with the roasting of a nice Peru:
City to Full City+ or darker is fine - it definitely holds up to the
dark roasts. So as they used to say at BK, have it your way ... |
Aged
Sumatra Lintong
This is an aged coffee that originated with '1999-'2000 crop of Lintong
Grade One and was held in Sumatra for 3 years for the aging process.
Aged coffees are not simply old coffee! You can't just put some green
coffee in your basement for 3 years and end up with aged coffee (although
its fun to see what you get -other than moldy coffee!) The process
has to occur in a controlled environment in the country of origin
with appropriate climate to prevent the coffee from drying out. The
bags are turned and rotated in their stacks every so often, and then
rebagged before shipping. It costs a lot to hold onto a stock of coffee
like this, and the final results can be disastrous! The coffee can
be ruined at any point along the way, and result in a total loss.
I have cupped terrible Aged coffees that someone is attempting to
pass off (with little luck). This Aged Lintong is a really, really
nice lot, and to my mind strikes a balance between the two cup profiles
of Aged coffees we have stocked. On the one hand we have mildly Aged
flavors that are not that far from a very earthy, very funky non-aged
Sumatra. On the other we have deeply aged coffees that have no sweetness
remaining, are low in aromatics but have full-on smoky, biting Aged
character. But here we have a lot that is both loaded with aged character,
AND has sweetness. Even more than that, there is a wonderful finish
to the cup, a molasses-sorghum syrup sweetness, a deeply caramelized
(not burned) sweetness that is very special. The sophistication of
the finish and aftertaste of this cup really sets it apart. The body
in this cup is rather slight for the first 48 hours after roasting
and then comes up immensely. I cupped some after 5 days and couldn't
believe how the coffee balanced out, and the body was so huge. Even
people who dislike aged coffees respond to this cup after the couple
days of additional resting time. |
Jamaica
Blue Mountain - Mavis Bank
Something good is going on at the Mavis Bank Mill. They have invested
in all new equipment, and the coffee samples are showing up looking
good. The problem is, some lots are better than others, and the Jamaican
crop is really not a year-round offering (although someone will happily
sell you Jamaican at any time of the year). Coffee cannot be stored
in Jamaica for a very long time without being damaged by the heat
and humidity. So it is important to buy from a carefully cupped lot
(the first arrivals are not always the better ones) and then get it
shipped promptly out of Jamaica to a milder climate. Beware of imposters;
Jamaica High Mountain is not Jamaica Blue Mountain, and many coffees
are actually blends that contain very little Jamaican. It's fun to
roast Blue Mountain and find out what this highly touted coffee is
all about when it is fresh ... and why it ranks among the better coffees
in terms of cup quality. True Blue Mountain is an unusual coffee;
it has good body, and some very interesting mild nutty flavors with
herbal notes that remind me sometimes of chamomile, sometimes of spice.
There are only 4 trade names that can legally call their product Blue
Mountain coffee: Wallenford, Mavis Bank, Old Tavern and one other
I can never remember. True Blue Mountain is actually grown at higher
altitudes than most other island coffees, and much of Mavis Bank's
farms are at 5000 feet. Nonetheless, it has the soft cup profile.
But remember, this is an "island profile" coffee; smooth,
mild, balanced ...and oh so so so expensive. Don't expect huge fireworks
in the cup - the character of Jamaican coffee is about it's mild balance
and subtlety in flavor. I think this lot of Jamaican is the best I
have ever had in terms of cup quality and preparation of the green
coffee. Personally, I will not consider offering any other Jamaican
coffee, especially Wallenford. I have seen too many insect-damaged
coffees from that source, and cabbage-like flavors in the cupping
samples. This lot represents the last coffee to leave the island before
Hurricane Ivan roared past the island. We were afraid that the crop
would be seriously damaged, and there would be long-term affects.
As it turns out, the trees were damaged and the crop this year will
be smaller ... but the farms and mills escaped serious injury. When
this lot arrived, I was happily surprised with the cup; it is a mid-to-late
crop picking (ideal) and had plenty of time to "rest" before
being prepared for shipment. It is a mature coffee. Roasted to a lighter
City stage it has more top end in the cup but the Full City (a few
snaps of 2nd crack in the air roaster) had a marvelous aftertaste,
sweet, a little rootbeer, allspice ... yes, mild overall because all
Jamaica is! Over-roasted Jamaican ends up like all other coffees;
carbony. Try to avoid this so you can sense the other cup flavors...
Ah Jamaica, a great place to visit.
But what about that incredibly expensive coffee? The world's best?
The world's most overrated? Well, I can say for sure that it is
not the world's best coffee. It is an excellent mild, lush coffee...
sometimes. But it is can also be downright bad. In these cases,
it's nothing short of a crime to pay those prices for coffee. On
top of that, a lot of coffee sold as Jamaican is not true Jamacia
Blue Mountain, or is blended. If you pay $12 per lb for Jamaican
coffee, it cannot be true Blue Mountain. but either the lower grown
Jamaica High Mountain, or most likely a blend that contains a small
percentage of JBM.
The history of coffee in Jamaica is epic ...In 1728, Sir Nicholas
Lawes, the then Governor of Jamaica, imported coffee into Jamaica
from Martinique. The country was ideal for this cultivation and
nine years after its introduction 83,000 lbs. of coffee was exported.
Between 1728 and 1768, the coffee industry developed largely in
the foothills of St. Andrew, but gradually the cultivation extended
into the Blue Mountains. Since then, the industry has experienced
many rises and falls, some farmers abandoning coffee for livestock
and other crops. In order to save the industry, in 1891 legislation
was passed "to provide instructions in the art of cultivation
and curing coffee by sending to certain districts, competent instructors."
Efforts were made to increase the production of coffee and to establish
a Central Coffee Work for processing and grading. This effort to
improve quality, however, was not very successful: until 1943 it
was unacceptable to the Canadian market, which at the time was the
largest buyer of Jamaican coffee. In 1944 the Government established
a Central Coffee Clearing House where all coffee for export had
to be delivered to the Clearing House where it was cleaned and graded.
Improvement in the quality of JamaicaÕs coffee export was
underway. In June 1950 the Coffee Industry Board was established
to officially raise and maintain the quality of coffee exported.
The Blue Mountain region is in the Eastern part of the island,
and only coffee grown within can be called JBM. Jamaica High Mountain
refers to coffee grown outside the true region. Wallenford and Mavis
Bank are the two most prominent names (you will see Old Tavern frequently
too). Moy Hall is a co-op created from one of the older farms, and
one of the 4 certified sources along with the above-mentioned in
1951. But these are not farms, they are coffee mills that purchase
coffee from the surround JBM small farms and mills it. Wallenford
...I won't buy it after learning much of the coffee is milled at
sea-level in Kingston --not a good practice( of course, if the cup
is good i will buy it regardless of my biases). Mavis bank is milled
and stored at altitude. They have really improved the output, with
a true zero-defect preparation. But remember, the cup is mild, mild,
mild. If you are new to roasting, and determined to roast JBM, try
the smallest amount in an order with a really good Central (a Panama,
Guatemalan, Costa Rican), a really good Yirgacheffe, a really good
auction lot Kenya, a Papua New Guinea estate coffee, a premium small-farm
Colombian. And if, in the larger scheme of things, a very good JBM
cups simply as a clean, mild cup, soft but uninspiring next to these
muscular coffees with pronounced cup character, well, remember that
I told you so! |
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