Guatemala Huehuetenango Finca La Bolsa

The dry fragrance has an essence of honey glaze in light roasts, with smells of caramel blended with milk chocolate, a hint of dried fruit. Pouring hot water on my City+ roast level, the sweetness had aspects of malted cocoa and caramel, unfolding to honey and toasted almond. The brewed coffee shows a well balanced bittersweet tones, a dark chocolate roast note that shifts to something more like semi-sweet chocolate chips as it cools. There's an alluring nutty-sweet aroma, like almond cake, or Baklava made with pistachios and honey. It displays mild berry-like acidity, quietly present and doesn't overpower the profile. Full City roasts work great in milk drinks, and also as espresso. Shots have a creamy thickness which brings out flavors of dark chocolate covered caramels, praline nut, hints of anise and leather in the aromatics, and a long bittering finish of baking cocoa that outlasts the rest.