Green Coffee Outlook -March 2021 – for Sweet Maria’s and Coffee Shrub

Stay up to date on coffee we have coming down the pipeline and our latest green coffee arrivals schedule.

Green Coffee Notes for March 2021:

• You may have noticed a flurry of Indonesian coffees hitting our site in the last week of February. Our container was finally freed up, and you can expect more delicious coffees from 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..., FloresFlores is an Indonesian island, and as a coffee bears more resemblance to the coffees of Timor-Leste, New Guinea and Java than to the wet-hulled coffees of Sumatra..., JavaThere are several types of Abyssinia variety coffee, but they are not from Ethiopia but rather Indonesia. Abyssinia 3 = AB3.  PJS Cramer, a Dutch plant researcher, introduced this variety... and more in the coming weeks.
• Looking at what the near future holds, our next arrivals should be ColombiaColombian coffee is highly marketed and widely available in the US. They have been largely successful at equating the name Colombian Coffee with "Good" Coffee. This is half-true...., an originIn coffee talk, it refers to a coffee-producing region or country; such as, "I was just at origin." Of course "Origin" for most product we use is not... we are currently out of. Unlike the majority of coffee origins who have a single, annual harvest, most Colombian coffee regions have bi-annual harvests, and at different times of the year. This means fresh coffee is available almost year round! (read more about our Colombia sourcing)
• Our Oakland lab has been inundated with samples from EthiopiaEthiopia, formerly known as Abyssinia, or a coffee cultivar: Ethiopia, or more specifically the Empire under Haile Selassie,  was known as Abyssinia. The name is Latin, derived from..., KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East..., and GuatemalaGuatemalan coffee is considered a top quality coffee producer in Central America. Due to our proximity to Guatemala, some of the nicest coffees from this origin come to..., three of our biggest origins. Normally, much of the tasting happens during our origin trips, but with travel currently off the table due to the pandemic, much of that load being shouldered at our labs in Oakland and Seattle.
• I’m happy to report that we’ve already contracted several containers of Ethiopia and Kenya, some of them reflected in the “Upcoming Coffee Outlook” below.
• On the more distant horizon, we’ve begun filling contracts for 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,..., and our first offer samples are expected this week from NicaraguaNicaraguan coffees from the Segovia, Jinotega, Ocotal and Matagalpa regions are nice balanced cups. They often possess interesting cup character along with body and balance, outperforming many other... too.
• Our April update will show more firm ETA’s on the early Ethiopia and Guatemala shipments.

Upcoming coffees currently on the schedule to be added to our website:

March Outlook
BrazilBrazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra sang, "they grow an awful lot of coffee in Brazil".: Brazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra... Dry ProcessDry process coffee is a method for taking the fruit from the tree to an exportable green bean. The whole intact coffee cherry is dried in the sun... Sítio do Engenho	23	60 KG	Oakland
BurundiBurundi coffee bears resemblance to neighboring Rwanda, in both cup character, but also the culture surrounding coffee. Burundi is a small landlocked country at the crossroads of East... Kayanza Dusangirijambo	35	60 KG	Oakland
Brazil Dry Process Lambari Adriana Guerra	19	60 KG	Oakland
CongoKivu is the general name for East Congo (Kinshasa), covering a very broad geographical area, and the lake of the same name that divides them. It borders on... Kivu Kalehe Cooperative	50	60 KG	Oakland
Costa Rica Dota El Conquistador	64	69 KG	Oakland
Ethiopia OrganicGrown without the use of artificial fertilizers, herbicides, etc.: Organic coffee has been grown according to organic farming techniques, typically without the use of artificial fertilizers. Some farms... Yirgacheffe Chelbesa Danche	160	60 KG	Oakland
Ethiopia Dry Process Bogale Deyaso	35	60 KG	Oakland
Ethiopia Organic Sidama Refisa	160	60 KG	Oakland
Flores Golewa Sobo	30	30 KG	Oakland
Flores Tangkul Village	40	30 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Organic Familia Ovalle	93	69 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Proyecto Xinabajul Paraiso	20	69 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Patzun FincaSpanish 101: Finca is the Spanish word for farm. Sometimes the term Hacienda is used to imply an Estate, which would mean the farm has its own wet-mill.... Las Camelias	8	46 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Michicoy Finca Rosma Lot 2	7	69 KG	Oakland
HondurasHonduran coffee was absent from the top ranks of the Specialty market, but that has changed. It has all the environmental factors on its side: soil, altitude, climate.... San Vicente Feliciano Sabillon	17	69 KG	Oakland
Java Honey ProcessThe honey process has nothing to do with honey other than the fact that they're both sticky! It's a term that became popularized in Costa Rica as another... Frinsa EstateA "coffee estate" is used to imply a farm that has its own processing facility, a wet-mill. In Spanish this is called an Hacienda. A Finca (farm) does...	20	30 KG	Oakland
Kenya Kiambu Evans Farm 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...	6	60 KG	Oakland
RwandaA Bourbon cultivar variant from Rwanda and Burundi. Bourbon coffees are named for the island in the India Ocean where French colonists grew it. Some history from the... Ngororero	30	60 KG	Oakland
Rwanda Yellow HoneyIn coffee, honey-like sweetness is often found, but we use terms such as refined honey (highly filtered and processed) as opposed to raw honey rustic honey sweetness. This... Kanyege	20	60 KG	Oakland
Rwanda Rutsiro Mushonyi	30	60 KG	Oakland
Rwanda Nyamasheke Mutovu	25	60 KG	Oakland
SumatraIndonesians are available as a unique wet-hulled or dry-hulled (washed) coffees. Giling Basah is the name for the wet-hulling process in Bahasa language, and will have more body... Wet ProcessWet-processing starts by removing the outer skin of the coffee cherry with a machine called a pulper, then fermenting the remaining fruit (with green bean inside) in water... Pantan Musara	40	60 KG	Oakland
Sumatra Raja Batak PeaberryThe 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...	45	60 KG	Oakland
Sulawesi Honey Process Tana Luwu	40	60 KG	Oakland

Incoming coffees currently on the water:

IndonesiaUSDA is (obviously) the United States Department of Agriculture. USDA also had coffee plant breeding programs in the past and one variety they distributed to Indonesia and was...
TimorTimor-Leste (East Timor) is a tiny island between Australia and Sulawesi, annexed by Indonesia and liberated in a referendum several years ago. Small scale coffee farming was jump-started... Leste Goulala	25	60 KG	early April
Timor Leste Lekisala	30	60 KG	early April
Timor Leste Koliate	20	60 KG	early April
Timor Leste Loi-ludo	25	60 KG	early April
Timor Dry Process Leste Kailitlau	26	60 KG	early April

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