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Sweet Maria's sells Green Unroasted Coffee. This page is our complete offering list. Here are some helpful FAQs:
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| Central America | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| El Salvador Majahual -Tablon Tempisque | $6.60
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The cup is balanced with syrupy body, chocolate notes, almond roast tones, red apple sweetness and cocoa-dusted nut tones in the finish. Balanced as drip or press coffee, intense and wonderful as espresso. City+ to Full City+.
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| Guatemala Antigua Hacienda Carmona Pulcal | $6.60
| $12.54
| $28.71 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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Silky and elegant cup flavors, mandarin accent, effervescent overall character. Grape-like sweetness, Thompson raisin, Turkish apricot, and a bittersweet finish. The flavor profile starts strong and opens even more up as the cup cools. City to Full City+.
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| Guatemala Antigua Retana Red Bourbon | $6.60
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| $28.71 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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Fig, prune, and plum along with muscovado and molasses sweetness, toffee-like finish with malt all the way through, a clean coffee with a well-integrated acidic snap creating a nicely structured character overall. City+ is ideal.
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| South America | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| Bolivia FTO Cenaproc Cooperative | $5.95
| $11.31
| $25.88 | $49.39 | $91.63 |
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The cup has almond roast notes, pear, tamarind, balance and sweet, syrupy mouthfeel. Malty notes in the lighter roasts with Dutch cocoa as well, very approachable. City to Full City.
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| Brazil Auction Lot -Bastiao Nunes Yellow Bourbon | $7.35
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Pumpkin spice notes, creamy chocolate mouthfeel, a dusting of cocoa powder and orange pekoe tea. Slightly tannic finish with tea-like dryness and walnut skins. Wonderful as SO espresso even at City+ levels with floral clarity and raisiny sweetness. City+ to Full City.
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| Brazil Fazenda do Sertao Lot 50 | $6.20
| $11.78
| $26.97 | $51.46 | $95.48 |
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One of our favorites from the recent Brazil arrivals, this cup has a nice clarity in light roasts, sweet tea flavor, tangerine hints and nutty roast tone (hazelnut, macadamia) turning to cocoa powder and blackberry at darker levels. City+ to Full City+.
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| Brazil Fazenda Santa Mariana | $5.85
| $11.12
| $25.45 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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Light roasts are surprisingly bright, crisp, with a touch of tangerine, malt and nut roast tones, and bee-pollen like honey notes. Darker levels have date sugar, fig, black walnut and cocoa. The finish is slightly tannic, like nut skins. City to Full City+.
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| Brazil Mogiana Dry-Process Peaberry | $5.95
| $11.31
| $25.88 | $49.39 | $91.63 |
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The cup is in line with the flavor profile of dry-process Brazil, with nutty and cocoa roast tones, big body, and a slight drying finish. It also has a brightness and clean taste I don't see often in Mogiana naturals, with a unique dried apple note. City+ to Full City and beyond.
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| Colombia "Dos Payasos de Tolima" | $7.25
| $13.78
| $31.54 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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Works at a wide range of roasts; golden raisin, nuts, apple-like brightness, cinnamon stick, clove, tart, drying finish. The body isn't heavy, but syrupy in mouthfeel to balance out the brighter aspects of the cup. City through Full City+.
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| Ecuador Organic Espindola Small Producers | $7.50
| $14.25
| $32.63 | $62.25 | $115.50 |
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The cup has caramelized sugar sweetness, tangerine brightness, interesting savory quality, a touch of pine and dill seed, with a good sweet-bittersweet balance. The mouthfeel is light, and there is a bit of root beer spice accent in the finish as it cools. City to Full City.
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| Ecuador Organic Zumba -Santos Norberto | $8.50
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The cup has mild citrus flavorsl, tangerine, slight floral qualities, and lemon zinger tea in the finish. This lot has more clarity in tone than our other Ecuador microlots this year, and less nutty roast tone. I like the quality of the acidity, this pleasant mild citrus and tea quality, and the finish. City+.
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| Africa | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| Burundi Auction Lot - Kayanza Bwayi | $11.00
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Bwayi is a coffee laden with ripe fruits and mulling spice, red currant, date, green apple, heavy cream accents the fruit and comes into play with the mouthfeel as well. This is a balanced, yet bright, complex cup. City to Full City.
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| Burundi Karinzi Maruri Hill | $6.60
| $12.54
| $28.71 | $54.78 | $101.64 |
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The cup has dried fruit, sarsaparilla sweetness, golden raisin and is balanced yet bright. Tamarind notes come to the fore as the cup cools, so make sure to taste this cup throughout the temperature range. City+ to Full City, allow proper rest time.
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| Burundi Prestige Cup #8 - Ngogomo | $8.90
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Ngogomo has a complex sweetness ranging from simple syrup to browning sugar. Citrus notes showed up in lighter roast profiles, while darker roasts brought out more red fruit. Definitely let this one rest after roasting City to Full City+.
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| Ethiopia Gera Jimma Nano Challa | $6.85
| $13.02
| $29.80 | $56.86 | $105.49 |
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This coffee is not a powerhouse, but a sweet, bright, clean and refined Ethiopia cup. Juicy and sweet, light roasts have red currant fruit, shifting to plum and black tea notes at Full City. The mouthfeel is light with floral and fruit notes as the cup cools. City to Full City.
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| Ethiopia Grade 1 Chelelektu Yirga Cheffe | $6.95
| $13.21
| $30.23 | $57.69 | $107.03 |
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The cup is amazing, delicate, sweet, with strong retro-nasal aromatics. Flavors of jasmine, tangerine and caramel are accented by a grape-like acidity (tartaric), with vanilla, honey and floral perfumes. Honeysuckle flower asserts itself in the aftertaste. City to City+, keep this one light!
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| Ethiopia Illubabor -Camp Cooperative | $6.95
| $13.21
| $30.23 | $57.69 | $107.03 |
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Moderate brightness, peach notes, and floral hints with an overlay of chocolate roast taste and dense body. In fact that might be the reason I liked this coffee with a little more roast on it. The chocolate bittersweet tang is really pleasant at this level, while lemon hints come through to vivify the cup flavors. Full City to Full City+.
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| Ethiopia Illubabor Hana Bosoke | $6.95
| $13.21
| $30.23 | $57.69 | $107.03 |
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Baked peaches, cocoa roast taste, Earl Grey tea (tannic tea finish, and bergamot citrus accent). The body isn't heavy but feels quite substantial on the palate, this is a balanced, crowd-pleaser type cup overall. It makes a beautiful SO Espresso as well. Full City to Full City+.
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| Ethiopia Jimma Wakito Madallu Cooperative | $6.90
| $13.11
| $30.02 | $57.27 | $106.26 |
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The cup works well throughout the roast range. Lighter roasts have jasmine floral notes, and Earl Grey tea. Plum-apricot is apparent as well, but as the roast approaches second crack, pleasantly bittering baker's chocolate dominates. City to Full City.
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| Ethiopia Pulp Natural Process Limu | $6.48
| $12.31
| $28.19 | $53.78 | $99.79 |
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A very unique cup that has features of both a wet- and dry-process coffee, brighter than most naturals, but certainly has the fruited notes and body of that process method. Layers of peaches, mango and apricot, herbal notes (coriander, and lemongrass), and thick, opaque mouthfeel. City+ to Full City+
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| Kenya Nyeri AA Tegu | $11.70
| $22.23
| $50.90 | $97.11 | Limit 10 pounds |
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The cup has a fruited character: currant, bright cherries with a hard-candy sweetness in the finish. City+ is where I got this coffee to sing for me, the body is nice and the sweet melon is intense. Allow proper rest time! City+ to Full City+.
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| Rwanda Jomba Vunga | $6.70
| $12.73
| $29.15 | $55.61 | $103.18 |
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There's a spiced apple note in the cup, warming/mulling spice notes, with a zest of mandarin citrus as well. With Full City roast, a silky chocolate flavor emerges, as well as a perceived increase in body. City to Full City+.
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| Rwanda Nkanka Kinyaga | $6.50
| $12.35
| $28.28 | $53.95 | $100.10 |
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Light roasts have apple, tangerine, mulling spice and toasted hazelnut in a very well balanced cup. Dry hops and peach flavors remind us of brown ale. The finish is sweet, like brown sugar, clean and snappy. City+ to Full City.
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| Rwanda Nyamasheke Karengera | $6.55
| $12.45
| $28.49 | $54.37 | $100.87 |
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Light roast has hibiscus with a tart but sweet flavor, darker roasts have a more developed caramelized sugar character. Brown sugar and sweet cacao bring the sweetness together before finishing buttery and macadamia-like. We really like the mouthfeel at FC roast, creamy and opaque. City+ to Full City+.
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| Yemen Mokha Sharasi | $8.40
| $15.96
| $36.54 | $69.72 | $129.36 |
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Intense sweet fragrance with dried apricot and chocolate brownie. Dark fruit notes, spice accents, sandalwood hints, sweet fruit, rustic chocolates. City+ to Full City+, and 3 days of rest. Makes great SO espresso.
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| Indonesia and Asia | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| Indonesia Organic Flores Wet Hull Bajawa | $6.90
| $13.11
| $30.02 | $57.27 | $106.26 |
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The cup has intense body, a thick and weighty feel on the palate. Foresty and earthy tones, fruity sweetness of melon and mango, sweet tobacco character, and a humid mossy undertone in the aftertaste. This hefty character has its merits among fans wet-hulled Sulawesi coffees that are scarce this year. City+ to Full City.
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| Java Kopi Sunda | $7.10
| $13.49
| $30.89 | $58.93 | $109.34 |
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This is a wet-processed coffee, quite different than most Indonesia coffees that are wet-hull processed, like Sumatras. Light roasts have spiced cider characteristics. Darker roasts have a wonderful brown sugar sweetness. It's a very clean cup, without the earthy rustic notes of other Indonesian coffees. City+ to Full City.
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| Papua New Guinea Baroida Estate | $6.40
| $12.16
| $27.84 | $53.12 | $98.56 |
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A unique estate coffee from the Eastern Highlands of PNG. Sweet and lushly fruited in both aromatics and cup flavors, spice accents, red apple, orange peel, syrupy light body. City roast to Full City.
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| Papua New Guinea Tairora Smallholders | $6.10
| $11.59
| $26.54 | $50.63 | $93.94 |
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The cup has a nice fruited sweetness, jam-like, with traces of heather flowers. The brightness is malic (apple-like) and has bosc pear. A bright and fruited cup more like a Central than an Indo, light roasts look wrinkly and a bit uneven but are ideal. City to Full City.
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| Sumatra FTO Gayo Tunas Indah | $6.90
| $13.11
| $30.02 | $57.27 | $106.26 |
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The cup is impressive for the balance of dry-fruited sweet notes and (especially at FC+ roast) potent dark spicy notes; cinnamon, allspice, clove, mulling spices. The acidity is low, as expected, and the body very dense and thick. It's intense, heavy on the palate. City+ to Full City+ to Vienna.
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| Sumatra Lake Toba 19+ Ulos | $6.90
| $13.11
| $30.02 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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A special selection of the largest screen size seeds from the Lintong area coffee. Cedar, pine bark, sweet tobacco, blackberry, sage, thyme, and leather in the finish. Allow the coffee to rest after roasting for minimum 24 hours. Full City to Vienna.
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| Sumatra Lintong Dolok Sanggul | $6.90
| $13.11
| $30.02 | $57.27 | $106.26 |
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The cup has a great rustic sweetness, tree bark, cinnamon stick, black tea, and strong mulling spice in the finish. Light roasts have a malty roast taste, thyme, chocolate with plum/prune fruit; darker roasts have malt syrup, and fruity chocolate flavor. City+ to Vienna, allow proper rest time after roasting.
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| Sumatra Lintong Tano Batak | $6.85
| $13.02
| $29.80 | $56.86 | $105.49 |
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Complex and intense sweetness at City+ roast, malt syrup, sarsaparilla, herbal tones, sweet tobacco and spice. Darker roasts have, chocolate, chicory root and molasses. Syrupy body with bass-note flavors and a "noir" cup profile at FC+. But it was my lightest roast, C+, that was the most complex. City+ to Vienna.
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| Islands and Others | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| Hawaii Ka'anapali Dry Process Maui Mokha | $13.50
| $25.65
| $58.73 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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A small, rounded-form cultivar (NOT ideal for Behmor roasters) that can be difficult to roast but has a unique cup Low acidity, fruited flavors, and nice body, maple syrup, dark honey, melted butter, raisin bran cereal, a dusting of cocoa. City+ to Full City+.
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| Hawaii Kona - Kowali Farm Typica | $17.00
| $32.30
| $73.95 | Limit 5 pounds | |
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The body is light and silky with brightness that is lacking in so many low-grown Hawaiian coffees, and a floral accent to the cup. A refined, elegant sweetness prevails, vanilla-laced honey that lasts through the crystal clear flavors in the finish. City+ is ideal.
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| Imported Chicory, Roasted and Cut | $5.00
| $9.50
| $21.75 | $41.50 | Limit 10 pounds |
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You can't make New Orleans Style coffee without Chicory, and you can't make good New Orleans coffee unless you use a FRESH roast of good coffee roasted to the French stage, and good imported Chicory.
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| Blends | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| Espresso Workshop #23 - Sundae, Java Sunday | $7.05
| $13.40
| $30.67 | $58.52 | $108.57 |
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Nice, sweet and tangy shot, with orange zest and grapefruit juice acidity, dried apricot, cranberry, and dark chocolate sweetness. Bittersweet citrus notes and dark malt in the finish. The profile is "brawny" and savory, while retaining classic espresso characteristics. City+ to Full City+
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| Sweet Maria's Espresso Monkey Blend | $6.25
| $11.88
| $27.19 | $51.88 | $96.25 |
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We blend this for body, balanced between high and low tones, fruited-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 | $6.75
| $12.83
| $29.36 | $56.03 | $103.95 |
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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 | $6.50
| $12.35
| $28.28 | $53.95 | $100.10 |
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A potent, pungent blend for espresso beverages. It's ideal for milk drinks, as this intense bittersweet cuts through the steamed milk. Rustic sweetness, spice, savory notes, long aftertaste. Monsooned coffee and a small percentage of Robusta add crema and body. Vienna roast.
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| Sweet Maria's New Classic Espresso | $6.50
| $12.35
| $28.28 | $53.95 | $100.10 |
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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 | $6.35
| $12.07
| $27.62 | $52.71 | $97.79 |
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Well balanced with nut skin, dried fruit sweetness, raw sugar, dried apricot and peach, macadamia nut, bittersweet cocoa, roasted peanuts, and dark chocolate in the finish. Good component in an espresso blend. Full City to Full City+.
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| Colombia Excelso WP Decaf | $6.20
| $11.78
| $26.97 | $51.46 | $95.48 |
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A nicely rounded decaf flavor profile with sweet spices and pumpkin pie aromatics, toasted nut, cinnamon, clove, and Mexican hot chocolate at FC roast. City+ to Full City.
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| Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe-Shakiso SWP Decaf | $8.55
| $16.25
| $37.19 | $70.97 | $131.67 |
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A unique Ethiopia decaf, created from a great lot of green coffee. The cup flavors are very balanced, and the acidic brightness more mild than the non-decaf lots. Honey and caramel sweetness, jasmine-like floral flavors, ripe orange notes, graham cracker. City+ is ideal, good espresso component at Full City-FC+.
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| Guatemala La Maridad SWP Decaf | $7.70
| $14.63
| $33.50 | $63.91 | $118.58 |
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The cup is complex, with alto notes that are grapey, "tartaric" in brightness, grape skin in the finish, caramelized sugar sweetness, turning toward chocolate at FC+. Dark fig, raisin, and aromatic wood/hickory note in the aftertaste. City+ to Full City+.
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| Honduras Carruchil FTO WP Decaf | $6.35
| $12.07
| $27.62 | $52.71 | $97.79 |
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A nice decaf, crowd-pleasing quaffable coffee that's not overly complex. A mild, crisp flavor profile, medium body, apple brightness, caramelly sweetness in the aroma and cup, dry finish. City+ to Full City+.
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| Mexico Organic Oaxaca Pluma WP Decaf | $6.15
| $11.69
| $26.75 | $51.05 | $94.71 |
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Mild, balanced, crisp, bright cup notes. Grain-malt sweetness, bergamot, Lemon zest, light body and a short, clean finish at City+. More pungent at the darker levels. City+ to Full City+.
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| Papua New Guinea Goroka WP Decaf | $6.10
| $11.59
| $26.54 | $50.63 | $93.94 |
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Flavors follow aroma - nice caramel sweetness, apple and cinnamon/allspice notes. This is a well balanced cup with a "weighty" body and mouthfeel. City+ to Full City+.
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| Sweet Maria's Decaf Espresso "Donkey" Blend | $7.45
| $14.16
| $32.41 | $61.84 | $114.73 |
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Fruited cup profile, some sweet bright accents, medium body. FC+ to a light Vienna is recommended.
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| Sweet Maria's Shanga Babor SWP Decaf Blend | $7.61
| $14.46
| $33.10 | $63.16 | $117.19 |
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The sweetness is the first thing that impresses with this cup, no "decafy" taste. Syrupy body with peach, apricot, plum, raisin, and dark brown sugar finish overlay on the fruit tastes. The cup flavors really embody both the Rwanda and Ethiopia flavors well. City to Full City+ for SO espresso.
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| Robusta | 1 lb | 2 lbs | 5 lbs | 10 lbs | 20 lbs * |
| India Robusta AB -Sethuraman Estate | $5.95
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A wet process Robusta coffee from a single Estate, for espresso blends. Enhances the crema and introduces thick body to the espresso, with burnt sugar and maple aromatics, aromatic wood, bittersweetness. Full City+ roast or Darker.
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| Panama "Dry Process Experiment Gone Awry" | $2.80
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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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Trying a sampler is the best way 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 since we try to include a coffee from every coffee growing continent, and a range of processes. Samplers are a great value - if you ordered the same coffees ala cart from our list - you would spend 20 to 25% more! All the coffees in the samplers are the same quality as what we offer on the list - no bargain basement special. | ||
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The 4 Pound Sampler: from $20.50 (+ 4 Lbs. shipping) |
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careful selection from Indonesia, Africa, South America and Central America, (note: 4lb espresso sampler will be mostly/all espresso blends) One sampler per order, please
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 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.
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