Ethiopia Uraga Gogogu

Gogogu is such an expressive coffee when roasted light. It has excellent cup clarity, refined sweetness and acidity, and fragrant aromatics that really awakens your olfactory bulb! Grinding a City roast releases sweet notes of white honey and cane sugar, along with hints of apricot, spice, and fresh flowers accenting the sweetness. Smelling the wet aroma, floral sweetness is intertwined with raw sugars, with a note of jasmine pearl tea and clove swirling in the steam. The brewed coffee is exceptionally sweet and aromatic, a syrupy cane juice note connects aromatic hints of citrus peel and ginger snap cookie. As you sip this coffee, floral and herbal notes are sensed in the mouth aroma, exuding fragrant aspects of sweet freesia flowers, Thai basil, hops and fruit tea infusions. The acidity has a citric quality without the grabby bite, mouth-refreshing and sparkles like honey-sweetened lemon tea. The coffee cools off to traces of tart hibiscus, kiwi and mango. Full City roasts carried some darker fruit notes that I think some folks will really enjoy. It's a little more berry-toned to me, with bittering dark chocolate, and rue-like herbals. It's a different cup at darker levels, not better or worse, but more deep-toned and bittersweet. It was actually quite interesting to taste the two roast levels side by side.