Despite grower discontent and sporadic social disorder, Kenya continues to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. This auction lot, from trees of the distinctive SL 28 and SL 34 varieties, was milled and dried at the Thiriku Factory and roasted at PT’s Coffee, where the motto is “without the love, it’s just coffee.” Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call
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Rwanda Tegibanze Innocent COE Lot 17
A prize winner in the 2010 Rwanda Cup of Excellence (www.cupofexcellence.org) competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it placed seventeenth out of hundreds of entries, attracting a score of 84.98 from an international jury. Owing to generous support from international aid agencies, the specialty coffee community and the industry of its growers, Rwanda's tremendous potential as fine coffee
Kenya Peaberry
Despite grower discontent and sporadic social disorder, Kenya cooperatives continue to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. This sample 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
Farm Girl Blend
Roasted at PT’s Coffee, where the motto is “without the love, it’s just coffee.” Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
El Salvador La Pinera COE Lot 11
A prize winner in the 2010 El Salvador Cup of Excellence (www.cupofexcellence.org) competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it placed eleventh out of hundreds of entries, attracting a score of 86.50 from an international jury. This coffee was produced from trees of the much-admired, bold-beaned Pacamara variety on the La Pinera farm. The Pacamara variety, a cross between the giant-beaned
Hawaii Isla Kona Mauka
Located near the town of Holualoa, at an elevation of nearly 3000 feet, the Isla Kona Mauka farm is one of the highest in Kona. Roasted at PT’s Coffee, where the motto is “without the love, it’s just coffee.” Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
Don Roberto Espresso Reserve
A blend of three lots of coffee processed by two different methods (wet- and honey-process) from the award-winning (including ninth place in the 2010 El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition) Las Mercedes farm. The term honey process refers to coffee prepared by the pulped natural method, meaning the skin is removed from the coffee fruit immediately after picking, but the seeds or beans are dried
Panama Elida Estate Natural
This coffee was dried in the fruit, an unusual procedure for a Panama coffee. From trees of the Typica and Catuai varieties of Arabica. Roasted at PT’s Coffee, where the motto is “without the love, it’s just coffee.” Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
Guatemala Finca El Socorro Maracaturra
Grown on the award winning farm El Socorro y Anexos, this coffee is comprised of the Maracaturra variety of Arabica, a cross between the giant-beaned Maragogipe and Caturra, a dwarf selection of Bourbon. Roasted at PT’s Coffee, where the motto is “without the love, it’s just coffee.” Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
Flying Monkey
Roasted at PT's Coffee, where the motto is "without the love, it's just coffee." Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
Burundi Mwurire
Burundi is a small, landlocked country in Central Africa. Most coffee is grown in the mountains of the north, bordering Rwanda. Benefiting from ideal growing conditions and large plantings of the heirloom Bourbon variety of Arabica, Burundi coffee has an excellent reputation, though it is better known in Europe than in the United States. This particular Burundi was produced from trees of the
Colombia Los Naranjos San Agustin
Growing areas east of the Andes in the southern Colombia Department of Huila are particularly admired for their fine coffees. Roasted at PT's Coffee, where the motto is "without the love, it's just coffee." Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
Moka-Java Organic
This lighter-roasted, all-organically-grown version of the ancient Mocha-Java blend combines a traditionally processed Sumatra in place of the original Java and replaces the Yemen Mocha with a similar ?natural? or dried-in-the-fruit coffee from southern Ethiopia. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's
Costa Rica Finca Cerro Palado
PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's motto is "without the love, it's just coffee." Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for more information.
Panama Elida Estate Natural
Produced by the award-winning Elida Estate, this is a dry- or "natural-" processed coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit is removed, as is the case with the wet-processed or "washed" coffees more typical of Panama and Central America. Roasted at PT's Coffee, where the motto is "without the love, it's just coffee." Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call
El Salvador Finca Las Mercedes
From the same trees as the 2006 El Salvador Cup of Excellence first-place winner, this lot is made up entirely of beans from the heirloom Bourbon variety of Arabica. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's motto is "without the love, it's just coffee." Visit www.ptscoffee.com or call 888-678-5282 for
Hacienda La Esmeralda Special Mario Carnaval
Coffee from trees of the botanical variety "Gesha" or "Geisha" grown on farmer Price Peterson's Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama has for the last several years consistently broken records paid for a green coffee. With its long, boat-shaped beans and distinctive floral and chocolate cup, the Esmeralda Panama Gesha continues one of the world's most unique coffees. "Mario" refers to the area of the
Guatemala Finca Socorro y Annexos Cup of Excellence #4
A prize winner in the 2008 Guatemala Cup of Excellence competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it placed fourth out of hundreds of entries, attracting a score of 89.60 from an international jury. This coffee is comprised of the Maracaturra variety of Arabica, a cross between the giant-beaned Maragogipe and Caturra, a dwarf selection of Bourbon. Roasted at PT's Coffee, where the motto is
El Salvador Los Planes Peaberry de la Lagunita
Finca Los Planes is a distinguished, innovating El Salvador farm, one of whose coffees placed in this year's El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition. Produced from trees of the Bourbon variety at an elevation of approximately 5,300 feet by farmer Sergio Edmundo Ticas Reyes. This selection consists entirely of peaberries, a kind of bean that results when the coffee fruit develops only a single,
El Salvador Finca Kilimanjaro
Named after East Africa's highest peak by Aida Batlle, one of El Salvador's (and Central America's) finest and most innovative coffee producers, Finca Kilimanjaro is planted with the famous SL28 variety of Arabica responsible for the finest coffees of Kenya. PT's is a quality-oriented wholesale/retail specialty roaster with a wide and refined selection of coffee blends and origins. The PT's motto