This week are excited to offer Papua New Guinea Baroida Estate and Ethiopia Illubabor - Camp Cooperative as our

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*We are now going to use the weblog to announce the upcoming Roast Coffee Pairing so you can read a bit about what is next in line.  We always post this information on the main site:

http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.roasted.php

So, go to that link if you'd like to place an order for the following pairing:

We realized that we were confusing everyone by having two blogs. So this blog about our roasted coffee is officially closed ... All the roasted coffee posts included in our main blog: http://www.sweetmarias.com/weblog/

This week we are roasting two coffees from Tanzania that are markedly different, partially due to their selection.  Nyamtimbo Peaberry is a lot from the South of the country, far from Kenya but with some hints of malic (apple) acidity balanced against a spicy, caramelized sweetness.  We roasted this to Full City level, final thermoprobe temp 435 and roast times around 15 minutes.  Mbinga Ruvuma Flatbean has even wilder notes of black pepper and dark berry alongside the aforementioned acidity.  Roasted to Full City+ level, final thermoprobe temp 440 and roast times around 15 minutes.  Both of t

For this pairing we are roasting two great coffees from South America:  Brazil Joao de Campos Yellow Catuai and Colombia – Los Chuchos de Tolima.  Both were roasted to Full City with a touch less roast on the Colombia to highlight some of the nuances of that lot.  The Los Chuchos lot may be a “mutt” of sorts, but the pedigree is fanstastic.  Tolima consistently produces some of the highest rated coffees we come across and this is no exception, wonderful fruit is balanced with nutmeg notes and a finish reminscent of black tea.  Brazil Joao de Campos offers quite a contrast featuring  caramel an

Here we have a comparison of two mild and balanced wet-process coffees  - the types of cups that make you say “That is good coffee.” It sounds dumb right?

Maybe "Unsung Heroes" is misleading - it is more like "Commonly Overlooked Coffees" or "Under-Appreciated Coffees" or "Perfectly Good Coffees without an Effective Marketing Campaign."   We might as well call it "The Dark Side" as it is also a couple of coffees that we will roast past our usual City+/Full City roast.  First we have the Bali Kintamani which is wet-hulled - the processing method used widely in Sumatra -  it has that earthiness in the cup and it takes a dark roast well. Expect some chocolatey-ness and fruit.

In this pairing we will offer two different Brazilian coffees that were processed by two different methods, one a pulped natural and one a dry process.   This will highlight the influence of processing method on the coffee you taste in the cup.