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Coffee Beans Reviews
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South American Coffees
Brazilian Santos
A gourmet coffee favorite in Europe. Known for more than 100 years as Brazil's
'Green Gold,' these beans are grown high atop the hills of the Santos region.
The careful cultivation of Santos seeds and the harvesting of their beans has
remained virtually unchanged for generations. These beauties' strong flavor
and medium body.
Colombian Supremo
This gourmet coffee has large beans, consistently good taste, medium body,
full aroma, and medium acidity. A good 'daily' coffee, it harmonizes well in
blends. This is the bean many now-serious connoisseurs became hooked on before
totally abandoning stale, mass-produced store-bought grounds.
Central American Coffees
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Costa
Rica Tres Rios
This strictly hard bean (SHB) has fine acidity, full body and vibrant flavor
which give it a distinctive character well balanced and sweetly smooth.
Gourmet Coffee Beans You'll find all Costa Rican coffees are Arabica beans.
Here's their "market names" – Tarrazu, Tres Rios, Cartago, San Jose,
Curridabat, San Ramon, Heredia, Montes de Oca, Naranjo and Sabanilla.
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Costa Rica Tarrazu
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This Costa Rican coffee is referred to as a "classically complete" coffee --
a sweet aroma, full body, pleasant acidity and a delicate clean aftertaste
with rich chocolate and nutty undertones
Guatemala Coffee Beans Reviews
As in other parts of Central and South America, coffee was brought to Guatemala by the
Spanish 'Conquistadores', to exploit the cheap labor offered by their enslaved Mayan population.
There was a lull in coffee cultivation between independence in 1838 and the 1870's,
when German businessmen took the helm.
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Acatenango Coffee Beans Reviews
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The Acatenango Valley is a hidden marvel in the world of Guatemalan coffees. Since
the 1880s, farmers have grown coffee on the foothills of Acatenango volcano under dense shade.
Today, mini-farms run by famillies or small producers cultivate the hills up to 6,500 feet (2000 meters) high. .
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Guatemala Antigua Ponchoy Valley
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This strictly hard bean coffee (SHB) has fine acidity, full and hardy body and
vibrant smoky flavor. Grown in the district of Antigua in the central
highlands of Guatemala.
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Guatemala Huehuetenango
Guatemala Huehuetenango (pronounced, 'way-way-tenango ') Rich body, spice and
chocolate flavors with a clean finish. The high mountains shrouded in mist on
the volcanic slopes of southern Guatemala produces one of the most distinctive
and desirable gourmet coffees . With its surprisingly deep, rich body and muted
overtones, this Guatemalan is perhaps closer in some characteristics to
Indonesian coffees than it is to other Central Americans
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Nicaragua SHG
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This is a very clean and bright coffee with a nice full body to finish. This
is truly a great cup of coffee .For the price it will give some Kona coffees a
run for their money! Our Nicaraguan SHG coffee is considered a "classic" cup:
great body, clean flavor, and balance.
- African Coffees
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Kenya AA
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One of the finest gourmet coffees out of eastern Africa, Kenya AA is grown
high in the mountains of western Kenya, tempered by the country's mild
climate. The unique geography of its native soil gives Kenya AA its
excellent body, heady aroma. Very little bitterness, Kenya AA is one of the
most popular beans in the world..
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Tanzania
Peaberry
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From the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, this coffee represents less than 5% of the
country's production. The peaberry coffees render a flavor that is full body,
spicy with a distinguished aroma and vibrant flavor. The peaberry is the male
bean of the plant, a bean of unmatched uniformity.
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Ethiopian Harrar
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The original gourmet coffee bean which hooked the world, discovered growing
among goats more than a thousand years ago in what's now Ethiopia. Centuries
later, the moka coffee bean was smuggled out of the African continent by the
Dutch to ensure a fine future in the newly discovered East Indies. Ethiopian
Harrar is the highest grown Ethiopian coffee and it possesses an exotic flavor
with a rather light body, with pleasant earthy notes, and a distinctive
aromatic.
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Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
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Ethiopian Yirgacheffe which is unknown by many people, yet it is considered by
many to be the one finest Ethiopian coffees. This intense feeling coffee
enhances the palate with its very distinctive floral bouquet, rich body, a
pleasingly fragrant aroma, with a smooth mellowness .
Pacific Rim Coffees
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Sumatra
Mandheling
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The absolute finest of the naturally processed Sumatran beans. These works of
art get their fruity flavor from the rich volcanic slopes near Mount Leuser...one
of the highest points of land among the countries throughout the Indian Ocean.
These beans are double hand-picked to ensure the highest quality. The intense
fruit flavor makes this variety a great bean for aspiring connoisseurs.
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Papua New Guinea
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Papua New Guinea coffee is one of our favorites, an excellent cup with amazing
sparkle and spiciness. It is very difficult to get, coming from small farms
deep within the rain forests of Papua New Guinea
Java Estate
Java Estate yield a piquant aroma. Java estate displays an
exquisite acid balance, a medium body with a smooth and spicy finish. It's
name has become synonymous with coffee in the U.S.A., and is often the
standard for which all others are measured.
Sulawesi Toraja
Rich, deep-toned flavors with a maple-syrupy body and low acidy taste. Hints
of caramel and orange aftertaste.
Great single origin espresso!
Asian Coffees
Monsoon Malabar
One of the worlds most exotic coffees, Monsoon Malabar comes
from India. Exposed to the monsoon winds for a few weeks the flavors become
richer and smoother. Monsoon Malabar is full bodied , very low acidity with a
spicy woody flavor. Makes a great espresso!
North American Coffees
Mexican Custepec SHG
Mexican Custepec coffee is a (SHG) Strictly High Grown coffee from Chipas, a
medium-bodied, very clean taste with an acidity reminiscent of dry white wines,
Custepec has a hint of nuttiness followed by a slight woodiness in the finish.
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Kona Fancy
Cook Estate 100 %
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From the fertile volcanic fields of Hawaii, a medium bodied coffee, fine
acidity with that distinctive KONA aroma - a buttery characteristic with a
hint of cinnamon and cloves.
Special Interest Coffees
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Jamaican Blue Mountain Waterford Estate
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Jamaican Blue Mountain Waterford Estate, the king of coffees, it is very full
bodied, medium roasted coffee from the blue mountain district of Jamaica. Bold
flavor, smoothness and nutty undertones give it a signature taste. A very rare
bean. Makes a great gift!
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