Espresso Blend – Medium Roast
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FLAVOR PROFILE
This is our first espresso blend offering. While this coffee does well as filter coffee, it was roasted to shine as espresso. Our goal was to create a well-developed medium roast blend that was more traditional in flavor and also had high amounts of sweetness, lower acidity, and a heavier body. To us, this coffee has notes of dark chocolate, sugar cane, and caramel.
RECOMMENDED BREWING METHODS
This coffee is versatile and is great brewed as filter/drip, immersion, cold brew, and espresso. As filter coffee, we recommend starting with a water temperature of 201-205F. If the coffee tastes bitter and over extracted, 1) coarsen up the grind size, 2) gradually decrease the water temperature, and/or 3) increase the amount of ground coffee or decrease the amount of water used. For filter/drip and immersion, we recommend starting with a brewing ratio of 1:15 (e.g., 20 grams of coffee to 300 grams of water), but this again is an area you will adjust for taste preferences. For espresso, we would recommend starting with a 1:2 ratio (e.g., 20 grams in and 40 grams out) but experimenting with smaller ratios down to ristrettos (1:1) as we have found this coffee to be great in this range especially for milk-based drinks.
ABOUT THIS COFFEE
This section will be updated soon. This blend consists of three coffees: Brazil Minasul, Colombia Alto (not on our website yet), and Peru Finca Churupampa Women’s Lot (not on our website yet).
Transparency
Want to learn more about this coffee and the producers who make it possible? Want to learn more about the prices we paid for this coffee? We paid $5.82 per pound for the green coffee. Our goal is to create more transparency about our purchasing decisions so that you can make as informed a buying decision as possible. Click on the following link from the importer we purchase this coffee from, Sustainable Harvest, and search for Brazil Minasul, Colombia Alto, and Peru Finca Churupampa: