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Coffee Specs
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Grade |
Premium |
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Category |
Invalsa
Extra,
Good (A) |
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Screen |
15/16 |
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Altitude Grown |
Above 3,600 feet |
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Cupping Scores |
76
(Minimum), Range: 76 - 79.5 |
Sample Cupping Score from our
Head Cupper
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Aroma |
5 |
Flavor |
5.5 |
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Sweetness |
5.5 |
Aftertaste |
5 |
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Acidity |
5.5 |
Balance |
5 |
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Body |
5.5 |
Overall |
5 |
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Total |
42 |
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Total Score |
36+42 |
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78/100 |
Comments:
Intense
sweet acidity with chocolate hints. Floral caramel, honey, intense citrus,
orange, red berry, pleasant aftertaste, good balance. |
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| Best |
| 8 |
| 7 |
| 6 |
| 5 |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
| Worst |
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This is our
House Roast
for you to drink every day. It is unblended, single-terroir coffee. It is artisan-roasted
from professionally graded and cupped,
premium Bolivian green coffee.
We will custom
roast these beans for you and send them in heat-sealed, foil bags with a one-way
air valve, which lets the CO2 out, but not
the air in. This is significantly more expensive than the standard Kraft paper
coffee bags available in the supermarket and most coffee shops, but it
maintains the high-quality of our roasted coffee. Unless you tell us
otherwise, we will roast these coffee beans to the level that our
Roastmaster judges best for the type, density, and crop-year of the bean.
Enjoy our coffee!
These coffee beans
come
from Colonia San Ignacio and were processed by the
Cooperative that carries the same name in the Yungas valleys of Bolivia. They are 100%
premium, Arabica beans (Tipica 90%,
Caturra 10%). They were shade-grown in the higher altitudes of the
Caranavi region, depulped and washed using pure Andes glacier-melt water,
sun-dried on wooden table tops and hand selected by "Palliris" (Aymara Indian
women food graders). These are not "commodity coffee" beans.
We are fanatics about green coffee quality, roast freshness
and, ultimately, coffee flavor. We only sell what we drink.
Because of its sweet, ripe tropical
fruit flavor with hints of chocolate, refined acidity, good balance, and no
aftertaste, we prefer a moderately dark (#45 Agtron/SCCA) roast for these coffee
beans.
However, we can custom-roast them to your taste (light, medium or dark) We are
also importers of high-quality Bolivian coffee and we are distributors of coffee
roasting and brewing equipment.
The green (unroasted) coffee beans
used for our House Roast are certified
Organic by Ceres, GmbH (an USDA agent). However, our roasted coffee beans are
not yet certified organic as we are working on the certification process.
If you are serious about your
coffee (as we are!), buy roasted coffee whole bean (in our opinion, buying whole
bean is the only way to buy roasted
coffee). We suggest that you get a burr coffee grinder,
specially if you want to make Espresso.. A burr coffee grinder is good for all
kinds of coffee brewing methods. Some people, however, cannot afford (or do not
want to spend the money) for a burr coffee grinder, so they buy a blade grinder.
A blade grinder is fine for drip coffee makers (what most Americans use) and
French Pots, but it is not good for Espresso. We have a nice selection
coffee grinders (both blade and burr) in all price categories. Please check
them out under the "Coffee
Gear" button.
If you would like to experiment with your own coffee roasting
at home, please visit our other secure online store,
Invalsa Coffee, for green coffee and
home coffee roasting equipment.
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