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88

Green Mountain Coffee

Tanzania Peaberry

Roaster Location: Waterbury, Vermont
Coffee Origin: Tanzania
Roast Level: Medium
Agtron: 45/64
Review Date: October 2004
Aroma: 8
Acidity: 7
Body: 8
Flavor: 8

Blind Assessment

This coffee displayed a very slight "old crop" (faded, musty-mildew) character that caused co-cupper Christy Thorns to drop her score to 86. Ken (90) felt this shadow defect hardly mattered, however, given the cup's "almost effervescent delicacy, with tickles of sweet cocoa, pipe-tobacco and caramel." Christy offered a similar reading of the cup, but with less enthusiasm: "Although a hint of mustiness somewhat masks the sweetness of the cup, tobacco, cedar and black pepper give this coffee some charm."

Notes

Peaberries result 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. For reasons that are not clear, most Tanzania coffee imported to the United States is the peaberry grade. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is one of the country's leading specialty roasters, offering a particularly wide-ranging variety of origins and roast styles. Visit www.greenmountaincoffee.com or call 800-223-6768 for more information.

Who Should Drink It

Those who, like Ken, appreciate a delicate cup with the subtle molasses-apple-spice character of fresh pipe tobacco.

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This review originally appeared in the October, 2004 tasting report: Ethiopia and Kenya: The World's Most Distinctive Coffees

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