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Bull’s blood and SulawesiSulawesi coffees are low-acid with great body and that deep, brooding cup profile akin to Sumatra. The coffee is sometimes known as Celebes, which was the Dutch colonial... ...more, oddly, are related in my mind. I will be in Sulawesi in July and, rather unpleasantly, bulls blood is exactly what they spill at the funeral season (July-August) in Toraja. I’ll explain the relevance … really, I will … I have been working on two new additions over the last few days and they are finally activated today (trying to get this done before the US>UK world cup game!) The Sulawesi AA Toarco replaces the PeaberryA peaberry is a green coffee "bean" that has a rounded form: Coffee is the dried seed from the fruit of a flowering tree - each fruit having... ...more lot, and has a different flavor profileFlavor Profile implies a graphical impression of a particular coffee, whether it be an artistic portrait or data graph of the perception of flavor compounds. In the case... ...more. As with the Peaberry
The Spanish-language term for Peaberry is the same for "snail". See Peaberry for more information on the single bean fruit of the coffee tree. A peaberry is the... ...more though, it is quite a revelation to the experience cupperOne who cups, or tastes and evaluates, coffee.: A cupper is a person who performs the somewhat formal analysis of coffee quality, called cupping. See the definition of... ...more and their customer (based on our experience and feedback – see the Toarco PB review in the archives!) I am very excited about the Costa RicaCosta Rican coffee is typically very clean, sweet, with lots of floral accents. hey are prized for their high notes: bright citrus or berry-like flavors in the acidity,... ...more “Sangre de Toro” from the area of Santa Maria de Dota, Tarrazu. This is a project that, from it’s inception right at the farm in January this year, was intended as special offering for Shrub. Sangre de Toro means “Bull’s Blood” and refers the the color of dark crimson-red coffee cherryOriginally coffee literature referred to the fruit of the tree as a "berry" but in time it became a cherry. It is of course neither. Nor is the... ...more. We asked the Calderon family to have cherry
Either a flavor in the coffee, or referring to the fruit of the coffee tree, which somewhat resembles a red cherry.: Either a flavor in the coffee, or... ...more re-sorted as it came to the mill to include only the very very ripe cherry. We paid a large premium for the extra labor, hence the price. But it is a sweet, clean cupClean cup refers to a coffee free of taints and defects. It does not imply sanitary cleanliness, or that coffees that are not clean (which are dirty) are... ...more, a “dessert coffee” I would call it. -Tom
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