168 Items
Name
Attributes
Score
Arrival
Process
Price
Line drawing of cute monkey
Low Toned
Dark Chocolate
Rustic Fruit
Various Process Methods
I like this blend best when the roast is stopped just as second crack becomes rapid, and shows no sign of slowing down. Actually, I like it a lot lighter than that too! I don't like this roasted to a dark, dark roast stage, Full French or Italian. This is because Brazilian coffees become ashy and began to bitter when roasted extremely dark. I believe strongly in a 36+ hour resting period before use for espresso extraction! It wont kill you to use it sooner... but you might notice sharp unpleasant notes.
Varies
88.0

Sweet Maria's Espresso Monkey Blend

Sweet Maria's Ethiopiques Blend
Syrupy Sweetness
Candied Citrus
Dark Chocolate
Wet Process (Washed)
Full City
Heirloom Varieties
89.6

Sweet Maria's Ethiopiques Blend

Sweet Maria's Liquid Amber Espresso Blend
Creamy Body
Pungent Cocoa
Caramel
Various Process Methods
I advocate a Northern Italian style roast (lighter espresso roast, really a French roast, stopped 30-45 seconds into 2nd crack), but the blend works very well at the darker Southern Italian style roast (a full French roast actually, at the peak of a rapid 2nd crack). Either way, get this into 2nd crack and allow proper resting that espresso demands: 48+ hours is best. This blend works great in air and drum roast machines and I developed it test-roasting on both. If you notice a tingly "baking soda effect" in your mouth, then the coffee could use more rest.
Varies
86.6

Sweet Maria's Liquid Amber Espresso Blend

Dry process coffee cherries drying on raised beds at the Gerba Doku site in Guji, Ethiopia. Dry process Gerba Doku makes up almost half of this blend.
Low Stock
Boomy Bittersweets
Burnt Sugar
Round Body
Swiss Water Decaf
City+ to Full City+
Heirloom Varieties, Arusha, Typica
87.9

Sweet Maria's Moka Java SWP Decaf Blend

Sweet Maria's New Classic Espresso
Classic Balance
Opaque Body
Chocolate Almond
Various Process Methods
We recommend a range of roasts from FC, FC+ to light Vienna. That means just ending the roast just before 2nd crack (FC), a few snaps into 2nd crack (FC+), or as second crack begins to gain some momentum (Vienna)
Varies
88.7

Sweet Maria's New Classic Espresso

The Polar Expresso train powered by a steaming Hot Top coffee roaster.
Archived
HONEYED SWEETNESS
STONE FRUITS
VELVETY MOUTHFEEL
Various Process Methods
City+ to Full City+
Heirloom Cultivars, Bourbon, SL-28, SL-34
90.3

Sweet Maria's Polar Expresso Holiday Blend

Workers sift through the drying parchment coffee looking for defects to remove. Mbozi, Tanzania (not Mbewe)
Archived
Syrupy Sweet
Honey
Lemon Tea
Wet Process (Washed)
City to Full City
Bourbon, N39
88.2

Tanzania Mbozi Mbewe Peaberry

A bourbon coffee plant with ripening cherries at a Tanzanian coffee farm.
New
Turbinado Sugar
Orange Peel
Black Tea
Wet Process (Washed)
City to Full City
Bourbon, N39
88.4

Tanzania Mbozi Songwe AA