Rwanda (origin blend) green coffee beans

Smokin Beans

Details

Origin

Rwanda

Process

Washed, Natural, Honey

Roast Suitability

Description

About the Origin Natural bean nuances (cup notes) – notes of citrus, creamy milk chocolate, delicate fruitiness, pleasant acidity Bright with delicate stonefruit notes, a sweet lemonade like acidity, a clean smooth body, nuances of peach, cranberry, and black tea. This coffee is best at the medium roast level and makes an excellent high quality pour-over. — Origin: Rwanda – 100% Arabica – Varietal: Bourbon — Region: Africa – Processing: washed – Grade: (AA) specialty grade — Flavor Family: citrus, milk chocolate, fruity – Aroma: chocolate, toffee, stonefruit — Acidity: medium/high – Body: medium – Sweetness: medium/high – Best Roast: medium roast — Altitude: 1500-1800m – Best Brew: pour over – 100% fresh current harvest This Rwanda coffee is grown by a group of local farmers called Misozi Kopakaki Cooperative. Their coffee plantations are located the Karongi District of western Rwanda. The farmers in this area, in an effort create the best coffee possible, have pooled their coffee, resources and knowledge together by forming a cooperative they called Kopakaki. They have implemented necessary growing standards to help them achieve their goals. About the Roasting Process Maybe you have heard that roasting coffee is a work of art and to achieve excellent beautiful taste development in coffee beans it requires skillful and calculated inputs by the roast master throughout the entire roasting process? Is this true or not… Let’s look at this topic a little deeper. Some would argue that roasting coffee is easier than all that and you don’t need to worry about all those “technical aspects” to enjoy roasting your own coffee at home. In the most basic sense, you simply need to heat the beans to about 450*F or until they reach the desired “doneness” or “brown” and then cool them as quickly as possible with a fan to stop the internal roasting changes happening inside the beans. After this the coffee beans can be ground and used to brew coffee. It is as easy as that! However, as