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Panamanian coffee breaks auction records

Geisha Coffee ‘Esmeralda Special’ surpassed his own record and established a sales global record of 170.20 dollars. The “Esmeralda Special” Geisha variety re-heat the coffee market yesterday by breaking the world sales record quoting a price of 170.20 dollars per pound (US$ 375/KG), during the online auction “Best of Panama 2010.” Japanese Coffee House Saza [...]

Yemen Mocha Matari

Yemenese coffees are not usually rated to the very top of premium coffees. However, Mocha Matari offers some personality that makes even the cup of excellence coffees taste boring! These beans are quite acid actually, allowing deep and dark roast. The nose is oily, earthy and dark with feeling of bonfire. The taste is somewhat [...]

Monsooned Malabar – revisited

For a long time I always told people not to roast Monsooned Malabar too dark. It will lose its roundness!!! Until Kaffa roastery made me change my mind. You can also enjoy dark roasted Monsooned Malabar, however you will lose the ultimate roundness. What compensates that is slowly baked butter popcorn like taste. I’m not [...]

Monsooned Malabar

Monsooned Malabar is one of the classics people usually refer to. You can read more detailed information about its history in every online coffee forum but to give you ballpark figure: Monsooned Malabar is the smoothest coffee ever. It is dried six to eight weeks in warm monsoon and thats where all the roundness comes [...]

El Limoncillo Pacamara peaberry

El Limoncillo Pacamara peaberry is rich coffee with bearing that i almost forget it even exists.  Beans come from Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The El Limoncillo estate itself is community run, 100% ecological place, where people are doing whats their passion – perfect coffee.  They don’t hold  specific certificates for any kind of  Fair trade / Utz [...]