Episode 240 on monday the 17th of June 2013 Guatemala El Bosque Washed Red Bourbon

A staple; a huge, special coffee we love very much and we are pleased to see it back for its 7th season. A massive coffee. I already loved this coffee before I got to try it at El Bosque. I mean that I was truly blown away with how good it tasted. However, my first [...]

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Episode 239 on monday the 10th of June 2013 Costa Rica Finca Angelina Yellow Honey Villa Sarchi

I love working with coffee producers who I know and trust. But knowing and trusting takes lots of time and effort and is tough to scale up. So when you have worked with a family for 6 years, and they present you with a sample of one of their other farms you didn’t know about, [...]

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Episode 238 on monday the 3rd of June 2013 Nicaragua Finca La Escondida Washed Catuai

Finca La Escondida is close to Lake Apanas, near the town of Jinotega. The straight translation from Spanish to English of ‘escondida’ is ‘hidden’. The farm is named because it is “hidden” from the road by forest and trees, which makes it appear to blend right into the side of the mountain. It is a [...]

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Episode 237 on monday the 27th of May 2013 El Salvador Finca Santa Petrona Washed Pacamara

So this is a second-year of working with Santa Petrona and it’s part of the bounty I brought back from my trip in January 2012, the aim of which was to find some new and exciting things for Has Bean. I also visited them again this year as I had so much fun with the [...]

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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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