Organization: Doi Chaang Coffee, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Coffee: Single Estate Peaberry Medium Roast
Reviewed: April 2008
Overall Rating: 93 points
Roast (Agtron): Medium-Light (49/76)
Estimated Price:
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Origin: Northern Thailand

Notes: Doi Chaang is a single-estate coffee produced by a northern Thailand hill tribe in the Golden Triangle mountains of Thailand and roasted in Alberta, Canada. The independent coffee growers receive over 50% of the profits of this unusual and pioneering venture. This coffee consists entirely of peaberries, a kind of bean that results when the coffee fruit develops only a single, oval bean rather than the usual pair of flat-sided beans. Peaberries produce a somewhat different (often better) cup than normal beans from the same crop, from which they may or may not be separated during grading. Visit www.doichaangcoffee.com or call 866-924-2264 for more information.

Blind Assessment: Pure, refreshing coffee. Sweetly acidy and honey-toned in the aroma, with floral and coffee fruit (tart cherry) notes. In the cup softly acidy, delicate in mouthfeel, crisp but very sweet in structure, with continued notes of tart coffee cherry, honey and flowers, together with a slight, deepening butterscotch-like pungency. In the finish the sweetness fades, but the fundamental flavor notes persist far into the long finish.

Who should drink it: A pure, lyric, light-roasted breakfast coffee, gently exotic.

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