Episode 236 on monday the 20th of May 2013 Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Gedeb Natural

A warning, this is an Ethiopian natural, natural yirgacheffe’s could not be more different to washed yirgacheffe’s in every way. This is a very funky coffee that some people translate as delicious some people fermented fruit. Its a marmite coffee, you will either love it or you weill hate it. You have been warned. The [...]

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Episode 235 on monday the 13th of May 2013 Costa Rica La Pira Tarazzu Caturra Washed

La Pira is located in the high altitude Dota Valley of the Tarrazu region, an area that was known for producing great coffees. This relatively young estate is only 50 years old, and is owned by the founder’s son, Carlos Urena Ceciliano who has worked the farm for 17 years, although has worked in coffee [...]

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Episode 234 on monday the 6th of May 2013 Kenya Gachami AA Washed

Gachami coffee factory (or wet mill / Washing station what ever you like to call it), located in the Kirinyaga district of Central Kenya, is seven km from the closest town of Kianyaga. The district lies close to Mt. Kenya, and enjoys good elevations of between around 1600-1800 meters above sea level, ideal conditions for [...]

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Episode 233 on monday the 29th of April 2013 Costa Rica La Perla Yellow Honey Villa Sarchi

This is a new coffee for us this year from our travels to Costa Rica in January this year. It was a four day whistle stop tour where we visited around 15 producers new and old. On the first day we travelled straight from the airport to one of my favourite growing areas the west [...]

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Episode 232 on monday the 22nd of April 2013 El Salvador Finca Argentina San Jorge Tablon Washed

http://www.hasbean.co.uk/products/el-salvador-finca-argentina-san-jorge-tablon-washed   This coffee is in its third year with us and is a sign of the progress we have made working with Alejandro. The first time we came across this it came as a very well presented sample which just landed on my doorstep. It came from someone who had visited the farm and [...]

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Episode 231 on monday the 15th of April 2013 Brazil Fazenda Passeio Natural Icatu

This weeks in my mug comes from Brazil, and a farm we have seen a lot of over the past few weeks. This time we get to see it as a natural Icatu. The Vieira Ferreira family has specialized in coffee production for three generations and is now headed by Adolfo Vieira Ferreira, whose attention [...]

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Episode 230 on monday the 8thof April 2013 El Salvador Loma La Gloria

El Salvador is a stunning country for coffee. The mixture of plant stock (mostly Bourbon) with amazing altitude, and great volcanic soils means it has some of the most amazing coffees. And most of it is grown on the Santa Ana volcano on the Ipaneica mountain range. So it’s great to find somewhere else, as [...]

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Episode 229 on monday the 1st of April 2013 Bolivia Taypiplaya Jantun Kollo Mountain

Here we have another Bolivian coffee, but one with a difference: it has a confused personality. It says it’s from Bolivia but it has many of the great notes from a washed African. This makes it very interesting. So the name, Taypiplaya, is the name of the town or ‘colony’, which was formed in 1962 [...]

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Episode 228 on monday the 25th of March 2013 Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Wote Natural

A warning. This is nothing like the washed Wote we had earlier this year. It’s a full-on naturally processed coffee that may not be your thing. It’s a marmite coffee, you will love it or you will hate it, but you will have an opinion on it. This is a natural Yirgacheffee from Wote, a [...]

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Episode 227 on monday the 18th of March 2013 Colombia Finca La Toma

Another Colombian coffee from the Tarqui region, which is in Huila, which is one of 32 departments in Colombia, and is well known for its amazing typography and quality of coffee and producers. Tarqui is just to the north of Oporpa and Pitalito, and shares the same mountain range. This is a very small and [...]

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