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  • 3/16: Five arrivals! Let's start with Costa Rica El Puente Tarrazu Caturra, with sweet glazed almond in the profile. This should tide us over until new harvest in a month or so. Next is a small lot from a region we haven't seen in awhile: Ecuador Zumba Microlot Especial. The profile has caramel and panela sweetness and a clean finish. We are also adding the nicely balanced Brazil Joao de Campos Yellow Catuai with chocolate and caramel throughout; also makes a great espresso component! Lastly we have some exciting African additions. Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi Peaberry is a clean cup with Meyer lemon brightness and an Oolong tea note. Keep it at a light roast! Lastly we're adding another coffee certain to be popular: Ethiopia Organic Yirga Cheffe, Koke Coop. This coffee has a silky body, with a combination of fruits, fruit preserves, and a hint of almond. More info at each of the links.
  • 3/10: We've got four new coffees and they're all easy winners. Let's start with the all-favorite Ethiopian additions. From a far-flung part of the Sidamo region is Ethiopia Organic Shakiso Sidamo "Maduro", a heavily fruited cup for fans of Misty Valley. Makes a great espresso component too with butterscotch candy and hot chocolate in the profile! A nice counterpart is a decaffeinated coffee from Ogsaddey farm that we call Ethiopia Dry-Process Sidamo MC Decaf -- orangey citric notes and syrupy finish! Next is a Cauca coffee from a farm that is up and coming in local competition: Colombia Cauca, Ariel Buitron Microlot, with floral and dark fruit flavors and bittersweet chocolate. Last up is the very exciting Sulawesi Wet-Process Toarco Flatbean... a non-traditional wet-process Sulawesi. It may sound strange, but this is a bright, balanced, and floral cup with dynamic sweetness; it might even be for fans of Guatemala, it's that refined! Read the full review for the full story on this unique coffee and the others above.
  • 3/3: Happy March! We are adding two microlots from Central America today El Salvador Matalapa - Puerta Zapa Microlot is a buttery bodied, sweet, high-toned lot from a specific part of the Matalapa farm, while Honduras Organic - Michelle Guevara Microlot is a honey-drenched cup with jasmine tea hints and a lemony bright snap. Also, we are pleased to add the outstanding Uganda Organic Mbale Bugisu suitable for a wide range of roasts with nice pungency and body, great as an SO espresso! Finally, a couple of welcome additions to our decaf selections: Sumatra Lintong Nihota KVW Decaf has a classic Sumatra flavor profile with rustic earth notes and molasses sweetness and Mexico Oaxaca Pluma WP Decaf is a mildly bright cup with malty roast tones and nice fruit with good bittersweet tanginess.
  • 2/18: Here are the three coffees we will be adding: Sumatra Grade 1 Mandheling is back and we are at the peak of the harvest season which is probably why this has such nice complex earthiness, deep bass tone, and heavy body. Even more eagerly awaited is the return of aged coffee and today we are adding Aged Sumatra Lintong Peaberry '07 Crop. For folks who haven't tried Aged before, allow the coffee to rest before grinding for 2-4 days for full development. Look for peppery notes, syrupy sweetness, mint, and aromatic wood. We're also happy to announce a new lot of Bali Kintamani Wet-Hull Arabica, with a marked "Indonesian" profile - fruited, low acidity, and also has chocolate roast notes. Check out the full cupping notes and farm information at the review links above!
  • 2/16: We have added three new coffees and a new espresso blend today! Here is the brief rundown: We are very happy to see the return of a Timorese coffee, it's been a couple of years waiting for a quality lot. This Timor FTO Maubesse has a wide roast profile, nice balance between brightness and body, and is for fans of a sweeter Indonesian cup than a traditional Sumatra. Kenya Nyeri AA Kiamabara is our latest East African addition with moderate acidity, spice, and apricot in the profile. Next we are adding a really fine early Colombian, the Gaitania "Los Pijaos de Tolima". Look for a nice balanced profile with raisin, clove, and spice in the finish. Finally we have Espresso Workshop Blend #9 - Dénoumoi, our new Franglais-named blend. The Dénoumoi has intense chocolate, agressive fruit, thick body, and even a hint of blackberry.
  • 2/4: Today at Sweetmarias, TGIF means Thank God It's Four new coffees! Let's start with Honduras Cup of Excellence -Finca Fernandez from a somewhat remote and small family farm. Look for sweet fruit tastes with ripe apple, red berry, and a cinnamon note. Next up are a couple a favorite farms we've stocked before: Brazil Cachoeira Yellow Canario Bourbon and Colombia Finca Buenavista -Carlos Imbachi Microlot. With the Brazil Canario, expect a special auction-quality offering with light body, malted chocolate, bright peach. It's a limited lot that would even please the non-fans of Brazil. With the Colombia Imbachi, one can expect a fruit combo with guava, strawberry, peach and a taste of honey. This Colombian is another special lot from one our favorite farmers. Last but not least is Java Kajumas Organic Wet-Hulled with a low bass note profile, dark chocolate, butterscotch, and a marked low acidity. For even more verbose descriptions, ... check out the full reviews!
  • 1/27: Say hello to four new arrivals today! From Central America we're adding two coffees... the Costa Rica Brumas Finca El Centro wet-process from Central Valley (with thick mouthfeel, plum tastes and winey finish) and Nicaragua Finca San Jose Java Longberry which is an atypical Java-type grown in Nicaragua. Look for great body and balance along with a chocolate roast taste in the Nic. Java and both these centrals can handle a dark roast nicely. From across the water we've received new crop Lintong, the Sumatra Blue Batak Tarbarita Peaberry with spice, sarsaparilla, and a light body. We're rounding out the additions today with Kenya Nyeri Peaberry Kieni. Fans of Kagumoini and Kiamabara should take note of this new farm in the same collective. Look for sharp fruit taste balanced out with dark brown sugar. Check out the full reviews for these coffees!
  • 1/21 Happy National Hug Day! We're seeing the return of some customer favorites today. We have two smaller lots that we are limiting to 5lb per order. The first, El Salvador Los Luchadores Pacamara, is mix of fruit and chocolate flavors with mango, mexican hot cocoa and a sizable body. Second is another favorite, the Hawaii Kona -Kowali Farm Typica, a mild island profile coffee with a refined sweetness and floral aromatics. This is one of our favorite Konas and folks will be happy to see it's in. The third coffee we're adding today is the Costa Rica Herbazu Red Honey. Look for savory sweet aroma, wine-like tastes of fruit and flowers. The Red Honey makes a great single-origin espresso too! Stock up if you like, there is no limit on this one.
  • 1/12: We're adding new coffees today! First are two very fine Colombian offerings: the Colombia "Dos Payasos de Tolima" with caramel and spice tastes. It's a customer favorite that stays sweet from light to dark roasts. Also being added is the Colombia Huila -Finca El Junin, Humberto Diaz, a bright cup with aromatic fruits and syrup-like body. Next, from one of our favorite coffee farmers, is the Costa Rica Guillio Francesca -Finca El Espino with milk chocolate, sweet molasses and fruit in the finish. Lastly, it's Guatemala Bourbon -Finca San Diego Buena Vista from the Acatenango region. It has a classic Guat. profile with vanilla, caramel, and red apple finish. Click on the reviews to learn more about the flavor profiles and particular farms.

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Key: CoE means award-winning Cup of Excellence lot . DP means Dry-Processed. FTO means Fair Trade and Organic Certified. WP means Water Process Decaf. And (farm gate) means this coffee is part of our farm gate™ direct trade price program.

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Central America 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Costa Rica El Puente Tarrazu Caturra (farm gate) $5.95 add to cart$11.31 add to cart$25.88add to cart$49.39add to cart$91.63add to cart
Rudolfo placed in this years Costa Rica Cup of Excellence with a different Caturra wet-processed coffee, his farm is at 1600 meters adjacent to Tarrazu. The cup has silky body with sweet glazed almond roast tones, cocoa notes and a touch of almond skin bitterness in the finish that I find pleasant and bracing. It's a very nice cup, and considering that new crop Costa Rica coffees from higher elevation farms are not due until mid-April, it's great to have coffees that cup so vibrant and fresh during a time when, in past years, we had very few Central offerings. City+ to Full City roast.
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Costa Rica Gillio Francesa -Finca El Espino (farm gate) $6.05 add to cart$11.50 add to cart$26.32add to cart$50.22add to cart$93.17add to cart
A non-traditional Costa Rica coffee with heavier body than other CRs. Almond and sage-like floral scent, mint, mildly foresty note, milk chocolate, a sweet molasses aromatic note, heavily fruited with pear, apple and some banana (and a slight banana skin dryness in the finish). Full City to Full City+ roast
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Costa Rica Helsar "Villa Sarchi Solis" (farm gate) $6.00 add to cart$11.40 add to cart$26.10add to cart$49.80add to cart$92.40add to cart
A balanced cup, with well-defined acidity. Grace notes of peach tea, a little lemon rind, and pear. It has the same dry-roasted nut tone, more almondy than hazelnut, fading to tangy and crisp chocolate flavor in the finish.
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Costa Rica Herbazu Red Honey (farm gate) $6.40 add to cart$12.16 add to cart$27.84add to cartLimit 5 pounds
Savory sweet aromatics, honeysuckle flowers, malt-caramel, winey fruit, lemon tea accent, toffee and praline as it cools. Great as SO espresso. Full City to Full City+
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El Salvador Matalapa -Puerta Zapa Microlot (farm gate) $5.65 add to cart$10.74 add to cart$24.58add to cart$46.90add to cart$87.01add to cart
Puerta Zapa is a special microlot from one section of the Matalapa farm. The cup is very approachable, mild fruit in the wet aroma, with syrupy malt sweetness, buttery body, and a striking balance between sweet and pleasant "coffee bittering" flavors. As it cools lighter roasts became more and more bright and dynamic. I preferred this roast level for brewed coffee; the finish is high-toned and sweet. But this coffee works with a huge range of roasts and Full City roasts have a rounded, full-bodied cup. City+ all the way to Vienna (for SO espresso, that is).
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Guatemala Acatenenango -Finca La Soledad (farm gate) $5.20 add to cart$9.88 add to cart$22.62add to cart$43.16add to cart$80.08add to cart
A classic, balanced Guatemala flavor profile, and fantastic as SO espresso too! Malty, grain-like sweetness in the lighter roasts, almond and apricot high notes, sweetened hot cereal character, rounded and dense mouthfeel, stone-fruit and nut flavors at the foreground. City to Full City+ roast.
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Guatemala Bourbon -Finca San Diego Buena Vista (farm gate) $5.45 add to cart$10.36 add to cart$23.71add to cart$45.24add to cart$83.93add to cart
Acatenango is one of the under-appreciated growing regions of Guatemala. The cup is classic Guatemala all the way. It has that great relationship between sweetness and bittersweetness, as well as brightness and good body. Balanced flavor profile with vanilla and caramel flavors, citric zest, a bit of red apple fruit toward the finish; darker roasts have a more blackberry tone. The body is a key feature here, with a distinct syrupy mouthfeel and tangy bittering notes. City+ to Full City+.
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Honduras Organic -Michelle Guevara Microlot (farm gate) $5.60 add to cart$10.64 add to cart$24.36add to cart$46.48add to cartLimit 10 pounds
This lot is produced by a co-op called COCOSAM (Cooperativa Cafetelera Sanmarquena) from the Western region of Honduras known as Maracala, more specifically San Marcos de Colon. A very pleasant cup, lively and clean! Honey and floral notes, excellent acidity and peculiar sweetness of jasmine and flowers. Sugar cane and raisin flavor. City+ to Full City+.
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Nicaragua Finca San Jose Java Longberry (farm gate) $5.80 add to cart$11.02 add to cart$25.23add to cart$48.14add to cart$89.32add to cart
A bizarre cultivar known as Java that could be from Cameroon? Watch the roast carefully as darker roasts have more body, bergamot notes, tangy chocolate, and nice balance. Soft and mild, the light mouthfeel rounds out a bit after a few day's rest. Full City to Full City+ roast levels are recommended.
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Panama Esmeralda Gesha -Lot 2 Caballeriza (farm gate) $38.50 add to cartLimit 1 pound
A one-of-a-kind flavor for a Central American coffee, due to the special varietal flavors of Gesha. Delicate, light body with jasmine blossom, raspberry/strawberry aromatics, bergamot, anise, and a hint of bluebberry. City to City+ roast.
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South America 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Brazil Cachoeira Yellow Canario Bourbon (farm gate) $6.90 add to cart$13.11 add to cart$30.02add to cart$57.27add to cartLimit 10 pounds
An elegant, competition-level Brazil coffee with floral aromatics, bright peach notes, golden raisin, lightly malted chocolate, velvety mouth feel, light body, lemongrass tea in the finish. City+ roast.
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Brazil Joao de Campos Yellow Catuai $4.80 add to cart$9.12 add to cart$20.88add to cart$39.84add to cart$73.92add to cart
Fazenda Joao de Campos is in a region called Alto Paranaíba near Serra do Salitre. It is a high plain in Cerrado Miniero, Minas Gerais state. The cup is nicely balanced with caramel and chocolate roast notes, pungency, spice, and dark chocolate alkaloids dominating the flavor and finish. A very versatile lot, this is great as a blend base for espresso or brewed straight. City+ to Full City+.
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Colombia Cauca, Ariel Buitron Microlot (farm gate) $6.90 add to cart$13.11 add to cart$30.02add to cartLimit 5 pounds
This coffee was part of a development project for coffee quality that led to a local competition in South Cauca, and though this lot didn't quite win (it placed 3rd) it is most representative of true "Cauca" character. The cup has violet floral quality with dark plum fruit and a buttery creaminess. As it cools, raisin sweetness and hints of hazelnut come through. It's a really attractive, balanced cup. I had best results at City+ roast, but think it works well with a fairly wide range of roasts.
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Colombia Gaitania "Los Pijaos de Tolima" $5.90 add to cart$11.21 add to cart$25.67add to cart$48.97add to cart$90.86add to cart
Gaitania Tolima is not far from Planadas and Rioblanco, where we work with cooperative groups to buy microlots. Raisiny dried fruit sweetness, plum, clove, cardamom spices in the finish. Extremely balanced between brightness and body. Really attractive bittersweet roast notes linger in the finish, clean and long-lasting. City+ to Full City.
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Ecuador Zumba Microlot Especial (farm gate) $6.35 add to cart$12.07 add to cart$27.62add to cart$52.71add to cart$97.79add to cart
This is a lot from small producers in the Zumba area, which is adjacent to Espindola and on the Peru border as well. There is a lot of caramel sweetness in the cup, a viscous mouthfeel, panela sugar flavors, and a clean finish with a touch of citrus zest. It's a straight-forward coffee, clean, and similar to some of the best coffees we used to get from Oaxaca Mexico (also planted widely in Typica). As it cools, a caramel custard flavor is evident. City+ to Full City.
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Peru Organic Cusco Canelon -Tomas Ovalle (farm gate) $5.60 add to cart$10.64 add to cart$24.36add to cart$46.48add to cart$86.24add to cart
From one small producer in the Canelon area of Cusco. An extremely balanced cup with great Typica cultivar character; hazelnut, cashew, malty milk chocolate, apple and nectarine fruits, rounded body, mild acidity. City+ to FC+ roast.
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Africa 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Ethiopia DP Haile Selassie Sidamo $6.20 add to cart$11.78 add to cart$26.97add to cartLimit 5 pounds
A very sweetly fruited cup, with spice in darker roasts levels. At lighter roasts, super sweet strawberry, peach, apricot, plum, mango, caramel, cream, cardamom, ginger. At darker levels, intense anise and licorice, bittersweet, thick body. City+ to Full City+.
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Ethiopia FTO Oromia Yirga Cheffe $5.95 add to cart$11.31 add to cart$25.88add to cart$49.39add to cart$91.63add to cart
Lo and Behold! Another wet process Yirg, and FTO to boot. The cup has dark fruit notes, sugar plum, raisin, Mission black fig, syrupy body, acidic snap; in the finish there's a spicy sweetness with cinnamon, slight traces of clove and allspice. City+.
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Ethiopia Organic Shakiso Sidamo "Maduro" $5.90 add to cart$11.21 add to cart$25.67add to cart$48.97add to cart$90.86add to cart
Maduro? This is a dry-process coffee where extra care has been directed toward harvesting only crimson-purple coffee cherries, a deeper red than the picking point for most coffee fruit. Expect ripe fruits, a "hushed" acidity (deep-toned acidity as a direct result of mature coffee cherry), winey character, heavy body, flame grape, plum (with a little plum skins), melon-like ripeness, and Syrah notes; this is a dessert coffee for sure. A slow development to City+ yields the ripe fruit notes, whereas heading toward Full City results in a spice and chocolate emphasis.
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Ethiopia Organic Yirga Cheffe, Koke Coop $5.95 add to cart$11.31 add to cart$25.88add to cart$49.39add to cart$91.63add to cart
This is from Koke coffee mill (pronounced Ko-Kay), a part of the Yirga Cheffe Coffee Union. This coffee has amazing sweetness and brightness. The cup has sweet fruited notes, floral elements, and a silky mouthfeel. Peach nectar, apricot preserves, sweet mandarin orange, almond, passion fruit, tea, rose hips and hibiscus notes come forward as the cup cools. City+ highly recommended.
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Kenya Nyeri AA Kiamabara (farm gate) $6.90 add to cart$13.11 add to cart$30.02add to cart$57.27add to cart$106.26add to cart
A carefully harvested and sorted lot from one of Kenya's top cooperatives. Lively and bright with balanced ripe, sweet orange notes, moderate acidity, and a mulling spice blend (cinnamon, allspice, a touch of clove). Secondary layer of apricot, and as it cools a touch of pink grapefruit and mature meyer lemon. It strikes a perfect sweet and sour balance, with cane sugar and lemon juice evident in the aftertaste. City to Full City, but don't go beyond that or the origin character will be lost.
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Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi Peaberry (farm gate) $5.95 add to cart$11.31 add to cart$25.88add to cart$49.39add to cart$91.63add to cart
Gathaithi is a small town in the Mathira subdistrict of Nyeri. The cup is an interesting blend of Kenya cup characteristics, bright citrusy notes, rindy aftertaste, winey dark fruits, and a touch of sweet Meyer lemon. There's a nice Oolong tea character as the cup cools, with a pleasant dryness. City to City+ roast.
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Rwanda Gkongoro Nyarusiza $5.70 add to cart$10.83 add to cart$24.80add to cart$47.31add to cart$87.78add to cart
A balanced and graceful cup with restrained acidity, sweet citrus, rose, tea-like flavors, floral brightness, medium body with dense mouthfeel, dried orange peel, cinnamon bark, clove, allspice. City+ to Full City.
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Uganda Organic Mbale Bugisu $5.15 add to cart$9.79 add to cart$22.40add to cart$42.75add to cart$79.31add to cart
A surprisingly nice Uganda lot we picked up. At lighter roasts, surprisingly sweet cup with fruit and honey notes. At FC-FC+ roasts, pungent and bittersweet, but with attractive body and mild lemon finish. Great as SO espresso. City to Full City+ roast levels.
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Yemen Mokha Sharasi $7.80 add to cart$14.82 add to cart$33.93add to cartLimit 5 pounds
Rustic spice, sweet fruit, it's one of the sweeter Mokhas. Full City to Full City+ and rest is recommended. Has single-origin espresso potential
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Yemen Qishr (Tea) (1/2 pound) $4.80 add to cartLimit 1/2 pound
Similar to herbal infusion teas, especially dried rose hips. Note that we sell Qishr in a 1/2 Lb bag. Because of the light weight, this fills one of our bags we use for 2 Lbs. of coffee. 1/2 Lb. is a great quantity to try this out, resulting in around 15-30 5 oz cups, depending on your steep method.
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Indonesia and Asia 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Aged Sumatra Lintong Peaberry '07 Crop (farm gate) $5.90 add to cart$11.21 add to cart$25.67add to cart$48.97add to cart$90.86add to cart
Aged coffees are exotic, and might be a bit of an acquired taste. The first sip of an aged coffee might come as a shock, until your taste buds adapt themselves to the extreme flavors: intense, deep, savory, woody, syrupy, rustic! The cup is so intense ... you need time to recover from the first sip. Immediately the coffee seems peppery, hot, with some strong charry notes, but they fade into dark syrupy sweetness. Savory-sweet balance comes through, food flavors not found in coffee, dark liquor syrupy notes, herb and mint, clove, aromatic woody tastes, strawberry sauce, spiced rum. The aftertaste is where this coffee is so complex, and I can literally sit for 5 or ten minutes after the coffee is off my palate, and sense different complex arrangements of flavor. Full City to Full City+, allow 2-4 day's rest.
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Bali Kintamani Wet-Hull Arabica $5.10 add to cart$9.69 add to cart$22.18add to cart$42.33add to cart$78.54add to cart
A wet-hull coffee as they do in Sumatra. A very "Indonesia" cup profile, very fruity, with low acidity, chocolate roast notes, caramel, melon, some herbal accents. Full City+
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Java Kajumas Organic Wet-Hulled $5.25 add to cart$9.98 add to cart$22.84add to cart$43.58add to cart$80.85add to cart
This is a low-toned, bass-note flavor profile. Foresty flavors, wet earth, humus, dark chocolate, herbal notes, butterscotch sweetness, low acidity, . Full City to Full City+ to Vienna
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Sulawesi Wet-Process Toarco Flatbean (farm gate) $5.90 add to cart$11.21 add to cart$25.67add to cart$48.97add to cart$90.86add to cart
Radically different wet-process Sulawesi, bright, dynamic, super-aromatic, floral, herbal, with piney resinous aroma and flavor hints. City+ roast is recommended, FC+ if you want tangy chocolate roast taste.
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Sumatra Blue Batak Tarbarita Peaberry (farm gate) $5.60 add to cart$10.64 add to cart$24.36add to cart$46.48add to cart$86.24add to cart
A special peaberry separation of triple-picked Lintong coffee, with spicy accents, chocolate, honey, hickory scent, sarsaparilla, root beer, lighter body than other Sumatras. City+ to Full City
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Sumatra Grade 1 Mandheling $4.90 add to cart$9.31 add to cart$21.32add to cart$40.67add to cart$75.46add to cart
Our Grade 1 Sumatran Mandheling coffee from the region of Lake Takengon (Mandheling is not really a region ...it is a Sumatran ethnic group) has a heavy body (dry-processing aids this) and a complex earthy flavor. This is a deep, brooding, pungent, bass note coffee, with an undertone of mildly earthy dark chocolate. Full City to Full City+ or even darker.
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Timor FTO Maubesse $5.05 add to cart$9.60 add to cart$21.97add to cart$41.92add to cart$77.77add to cart
From a troubled country comes a fair trade, organic, well-prepared, high grown lot. A clean cup profile for an Indonesian, a quintessential "crowd-pleasing coffee". The cup definitely has an initial hint of its Indonesian roots, just a touch of pleasant woody and forest flavor and a more pronounced sweet herbal note in the aromatics. A nice balanced cup with viscous body and low acidity. City+ to FC+.
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Islands and Others 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Imported Chicory, Roasted and Cut $5.00 add to cart$9.50 add to cart$21.75add to cart$41.50add to cartLimit 10 pounds
Blends 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Espresso Workshop #8 - Waw, Bukan Main! $5.80 add to cart$11.02 add to cart$25.23add to cartLimit 5 pounds
Our 8th Espresso Workshop limited offering. The shot has a date sugar sweetness balanced with winey fruit, zesty nutmeg and cinnamon scent, which comes through in the finish as well. Full City+ roast is recommended, ceasing the roast before any sign of 2nd crack.
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Espresso Workshop #9 - Dénouemoi (farm gate) $5.90 add to cart$11.21 add to cart$25.67add to cart$48.97add to cart$90.86add to cart
The latest in our Espresso Workshop series, this one requires culling out quakers after roasting so pay close attention before grinding and extracting. The cup is intensely chocolaty; thick, waxy opaque, dense chocolate. The fruit is perhaps even more aggressive, dried peach and apricots in the lighter levels, turning toward mango and melon (even some traces of blackberry in the aftertaste). The mouthfeel is pure chocolate syrup. The cup is greatly improved by the aforementioned culling of the very light quakers, but don't overdo it. Slightly lighter beans are normal for dry-processed coffees, as is a larger variation in bean size. City+ to light Vienna.
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Sweet Maria's Espresso Monkey Blend $5.00 add to cart$9.50 add to cart$21.75add to cart$41.50add to cart$77.00add to cart
We blend this for body, balanced between high and low tones, chocolate roast flavors, and slightly rustic fruited accent notes. Our roast goal is in the beginning stages of 2nd crack ... we never "let it roll", so we recommend FC+ to light Vienna roast.
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Sweet Maria's French Roast Blend $5.00 add to cart$9.50 add to cart$21.75add to cart$41.50add to cart$77.00add to cart
Designed to endure the rigors of dark roasting, and produce excellent pungent tastes, attractive bittersweet/carbony flavors, and great body.
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Sweet Maria's Liquid Amber Espresso Blend $5.30 add to cart$10.07 add to cart$23.06add to cart$43.99add to cart$81.62add to cart
At Vienna: Potent, sharp, intense; great in milk drinks
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Sweet Maria's Moka Kadir Blend $6.60 add to cart$12.54 add to cart$28.71add to cartLimit 5 pounds
A potent, heavy bodied blend of dry-process coffees, very moderate acidity, intense chocolate flavors with a rustic fruit overlay. Full City+ to Vienna
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Sweet Maria's New Classic Espresso $5.00 add to cart$9.50 add to cart$21.75add to cart$41.50add to cart$77.00add to cart
A classic, balanced espresso, but without the baggage of the old world espresso conventions ...and without robusta! The espresso has balanced bittersweet notes, thick and opaque body, almond and chocolate roast flavors, hints of peach tea, spice, jasmine.
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Decaf 1 lb 2 lbs 5 lbs 10 lbs 20 lbs *
Brazil Cerrado WP Decaf $5.30 add to cart$10.07 add to cart$23.06add to cart$43.99add to cart$81.62add to cart
This decaf is a great blend base, for low-caf or decaf espresso, or straight. Good body and an interesting mild fruity-caramelly sweetness, creamy body, nice chocolate biscuit roast taste, mild overall, low acidity. Full City to Full City+
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Ethiopia Dry-Process Sidamo MC Decaf $5.70 add to cart$10.83 add to cart$24.80add to cart$47.31add to cart$87.78add to cart
A very aromatic and fruited decaf coffee! Bright, floral aromatics and cup flavors, medium acidity, light body, fruited and interesting sweet notes. City+ to Full City+ roasts.
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Guatemala La Maravilla SWP Decaf $6.40 add to cart$12.16 add to cart$27.84add to cart$53.12add to cart$98.56add to cart
We sent out Huehuetenango La Maravilla to Canada for decaffienation, and ended up with this great selection. Balanced brightness, with orange notes, and a dry finish. Nut-toned roast taste, almond, and praline with a caramel-maple sweetness throughout. City+ to FC+.
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Guatemala Palo Blanco WP Decaf $6.30 add to cart$11.97 add to cart$27.41add to cart$52.29add to cart$97.02add to cart
From the San Jose Pinula area near Fraijanes, Guatemala. A bright decaf cup with sweet aromatics, apple and nut notes, raspberry hint, medium body, clean finish. City+
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Kenya Nyeri Ndiaini-Kiagundo WP Decaf $6.55 add to cart$12.45 add to cart$28.49add to cart$54.37add to cart$100.87add to cart
A stellar, 90 point decaf! Vivid brightness, brilliant sweetness, fruited aromatics and flavors; red apple, plum, strawberry, pineapple. Caramel-molasses sweetness, cinnamon-clove spice accent. City to Full City+
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Mexico Oaxaca Pluma WP Decaf $5.50 add to cart$10.45 add to cart$23.93add to cart$45.65add to cart$84.70add to cart
A mildly bright cup with malty roast tones, sweet, a little fruity. At Full City+ Roast: Good bittersweet tangyness and body. At City + Roast, more dimension, caramelly chocolate, more brightness.
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Peru FTO Norte WP Decaf $5.85 add to cart$11.12 add to cart$25.45add to cart$48.56add to cart$90.09add to cart
A bright and lively decaf flavor profile. Light body, apple like fruit notes, lemon herbal tea, brown sugar sweetness, crisp bright acidity. City+ Roast
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Sumatra Lintong Nihota KVW Decaf $5.55 add to cart$10.55 add to cart$24.14add to cart$46.07add to cart$85.47add to cart
A classic Sumatra flavor profile in a decaf coffee. There are caramel and molasses roast sweetness, rustic earth and forest notes, herbal hint, medium body. Full City to Full City+ Roast.
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Sweet Maria's Decaf Espresso "Donkey" Blend $5.60 add to cart$10.64 add to cart$24.36add to cart$46.48add to cart$86.24add to cart
Fruited cup profile, some sweet bright accents, medium body. FC+ to a light Vienna is recommended.
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Panama "Dry Process Experiment Gone Awry" $2.8 add to cart$5.32 add to cartLimit 2 pounds
Fruity, vinegary, musty, ack! Here is an example of unclean fruity flavors. Our thumbs down selection for the next few months, this is a textbook case of processing taint. Heavy body, cloying fruity notes, slightly rotten coffee cherry flavor, musty scent and flavors in the finish, medicinal. City+ shows the taint the best. Try to disguise it with FC+ roast too. You can't.
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Key: CoE means award-winning Cup of Excellence coffee; DP means Dry-Processed; FTO means Fair Trade and Organic Certified; WP means Water Process Decaf. And (farm gate) means this coffee is part of our farm gate™ direct trade coffee program. Click on the coffee name to see the short review.

* 20 lb Bulk is intended for our hardcore home roasters or small commercial roasters. We do not recommend buying a 20 lb Bulk pack of a coffee you have not tried before! It is packed in a single burlap bag. Remember, we cannot accept any returns on green coffee. 10 lb bags are packed in paper or heat-sealed plastic.

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Trying a sampler is the best way in my opinion to get started home roasting. Especially if you are not sure what coffee to choose. We can not promise a particular origin in the sampler. In the 4 Pound and 8 Pound Samplers we try to include a coffee from every coffee growing continent, and a range of processes. Some folks have suggested that having a larger quantity of a single bean that takes a range of roasts is a better way to learn roasting - I think getting a range of flavors so you can start to see the difference origin makes is better. The choice is up to you really.

You will be prompted to choose the coffees you want in the sampler - all regular, all decaf, half decaf/half regular, or espresso.

The 4 Pound Sampler:
four great coffees!

...a careful selection from Indonesia, Africa, South America and Central America,
(our choice) -1 pound of each.

One sampler per order, please

$17* (+ 4 Lbs. shipping)

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The 8 Pound Sampler:
eight great coffees, 1 Lb. of Each

...a careful selection from Indonesia, Africa, South America and Central America,
(our choice) -1 pound of each.

One sampler per order, please

$32* (+ 8 Lbs. shipping)

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*There is a slight surcharge for the all decaf options on both the 4 Pound and 8 Pound samplers - since these are more expensive coffees.
P. S. : With very few exceptions, all our coffees are the top grade produced by the exporting country and are current crop if it is available yet. We buy coffee continuously and our stock is fresh! No coffee we have is "past crop." If I sometimes do not include the grade (SHG, SHB, Gr 1, Gr.5 -Ethiopia DP, AA, etc) or the crop year in the description, it's safe to assume it is top grade and current, because I always include the grade if it isn't! Grading can be very confusing; HG is the top Mexican grade but HG is the 2nd grade in Nicaragua. Grade 4 dry processed Ethiopians are the top grade available, but Grade 4 is often labeled Grade 5 to avoid higher export taxes ... email me, Tom, if you have any specific questions. See Coffee Cupping Review links below... and also check out Tom's Cupping Log of incoming samples.


Sweet Maria's Green Coffee Cupping Reviews are ratings of every coffee we offer based on the pre-shipment cuppings that determine what we will buy, and the arrival cuppings when the shipment actually shows up at our shop. What makes Sweet Maria's unique is our rigorous daily cupping practices used to weed out great coffees from so-so ones; every coffee on our list represents many that were rejected! (See Tom's Cupping Log). You can access the review for any coffee by clicking on the name in the price list above, or you can follow the links below. Please refer to our Reference Page for definitions of terms and cupping numbers, and the Roast Pictorial Guide for roast information.
Central America: Costa Rica | Guatemala | Honduras | Mexico | Nicaragua | Panama | El Salvador
South America: Bolivia | Brazil | Colombia | Ecuador | Peru
Africa/Arabia: Burundi | Congo | Ethiopia | Kenya | Rwanda | Tanzania | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Yemen
Indonesia/Asia: Bali | Flores | India | Java | Papua New Guinea | Sumatra | Sulawesi | Timor
Islands/Blends/Others: Australia | Hawaii | Puerto Rico | Jamaica | Dominican | Chicory | Sweet Maria's Blends
Decafs: Water Process, Natural Decafs, MC Decafs, C0-2 Decafs Robustas: India Archives: 2008-2009 | 2007
2005-2006 | 2004 -2003 | 2001-2002 | Pre-2000
Tom's Sample Cupping Log | Moisture Content Readings

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