Set: Fruit Basket Flavor Set

Our "Fruit Basket Flavor Set" features 1 lb of four different coffees that display big fruit flavors at the front of the cup. The coffees chosen for this set don't just have fruited accents. Rather, "fruit" is a central theme, and each one showcases unique ways fruit notes are manifested in coffee flavors.

The way coffee is processed from cherry to seed can have a big impact on flavor, and is certainly the case for some of the more fruity coffees we taste. As such, this set will often feature dry process coffees, and the occasional anaerobic fermentation. But don't think wet processed coffees are out of the picture. Kenya, Ethiopia, and even Colombia are consistent sources of some of our fruitier wet process coffee, which we will feature when available.

Our 4 lb Fruit Basket Flavor Set includes 1 lb each of the following coffees:

Costa Rica Tarrazu Beneficio Los Angeles: The cup intensity comes off a bit like honey process coffee, moderately fruited, round body and rustic-sweetness underneath. Notes of dark corn syrup, dried peach, fig bar, apricot tea, raw nut and carob.

Ethiopia Dry Process Birbirsa: Brightly-accented dry process coffee, with stone fruit and honey notes that are unique to coffees from the West. Red honey, pear, peach, Earl Grey tea, cocoa bittersweets (especially in dark roasts). Good for espresso.

Kenya Nyeri Mahiga AB: Tartly sweet flavors are overlaid with spiced complexity and bright fruits. Notes of currant juice, cranberry sauce, Darjeeling and Orange spice teas, cardamom, fragrant lemongrass, mulled juice.

Uganda Dry Process Bugoye Muramba: Intense dry process coffee, pungent roast tones, rustic sweetness, accents of prune, blackberry wine, honey mead, rustic dark chocolate, syrupy body, woody whole spices in the long finish.