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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.

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.

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.

*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.