Most southern Ethiopia coffee is prepared by removing the fruit before the beans or seeds have been dried, producing a cleanly high-toned, often intensely floral- and citrus-toned cup. This Ethiopia is a "natural" or dry-processed version, however, meaning the beans/seeds were dried inside the fruit, producing a flavor profile that is lower-toned with a deep, wine-and berry-like fruit. Like
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Espresso Reserve
Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.
Sumatra Blue Batak
Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed, and has become a leading seller of competition-winning and other small-lot, elite coffees. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.
Kenya AA Gitugu Muranaa
Despite national coffee leadership marred by confusion and apparent corruption, Kenya cooperatives continue to produce some of the world's most elegant and distinctive coffees. AA is the highest grade of Kenya coffee based on bean size. This particular Kenya is produced by the 400-plus members of the Gitugu cooperative at an elevation of 5,300 feet (1,600 meters) mainly from trees of the admired
Colombia Tolima Reynel Perez Micro-Lot
Produced by farmer Reynel Perez at an elevation of approximately 5,500 feet. This 2006 crop, less than 1,000 pounds, was purchased in its entirety by Paradise Roasters. Paradise prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit
El Salvador Santa Sofia
A prize winner in the 2006 El Salvador Cup of Excellence competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it placed fourth out of hundreds of entries, attracting a score of 91.20 from an international jury. Produced from trees of the Bourbon variety at an elevation of approximately 4,800 feet by farmer Ernesto Pacas Diaz and his wife Blanca Estela on the Santa Sofia farm. A skillful roast of a
Ethiopia Kaffa Forest
From the recently established Tega and Tulla farm in Kefa (traditionally Anglicized as Kaffa) Province. Kefa/Kaffa is reputed to be the botanical birthplace of Coffea arabica, the species that until the 20th century produced all of the world's commercially traded coffees and still produces all of the great ones. Whether this particular Kaffa coffee owes its character to coffee types that go back
Espresso Havana
Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.
Sumatra Lake Tawar
This is a superb, elegant version of a traditional Sumatra coffee type. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.
S.O. India Sitara
S. O. (for Single-Origin) is Paradise Roaster's designation for its new line of espressos based on green coffees from distinguished single growing regions. In this case the single origin is, yes, a pure robusta. It is, however, an India wet-processed example of this controversial coffee species, high-grown (for a robusta) and impeccably processed. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and
S.O. Ethiopia Yirgacheffe
S. O. (for Single-Origin) is Paradise Roaster's designation for its new line of espressos based on green coffees from distinguished single growing regions. In this case the single origin is from the celebrated Yirgacheffe growing region of Ethiopia. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal
Papua New Guinea Arokara
Produced by a large cooperative of small-holding village farmers in the Eastern Highlands near the town of Kainantu. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed, and has become a leading seller of competition-winning and other elite single-origin coffees. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to
Bolivia Calama Marka Cup of Excellence Prize Winner
A first-place prize winner in the 2005 Bolivia Cup of Excellence competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it attracted an impressive score of 93.5 from an international jury. Produced by farmer Juan de Dios Blanco from trees of the traditional typical variety of Arabica. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed, and has become a leading
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Natural Idido Misty Valley
A region of lush, rolling hills in south-central Ethiopia, Yirgacheffe is the most celebrated growing region for wet-processed Ethiopia coffee, meaning coffee that has been prepared by removing the fruit before the beans or seeds have been dried, resulting in a cleanly high-toned, intensely floral- and citrus-toned cup. The Yirgacheffe reviewed here, however, is a "natural" or dry-processed
Best of Panama Cafe Kotowa
Cafe Kotowa is produced by a third-generation farming family. This lot, a seventh-place prize winner in the 2005 Best of Panama competition, was grown at 5,500 feet on a farm overlooking the Pacific that was just awarded organic certification. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth
Brazil Yellow Bourbon
Yellow bourbon is a prestigious, heirloom variety of Coffea Arabica. Judging from the delicate, brightly complex cup, this coffee probably was processed by the pulped natural method, meaning the skin is removed from the coffee fruit immediately after picking, but the seeds or beans are dried with the sweet pulp, or fruit flesh, still adhering to them. Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting
Espresso Nuevo
Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.
Indian Mysore Nuggets
Mysore Nuggets Extra Bold is the highest grade of Indian wet-processed Arabica coffee, based on very large bean size and virtual absence of visual defects. Mysore is a traditional market name for coffee from south-central India, Extra Bold refers to the very large bean size, and Nuggets, I take it, has something to do with preciousness, as in nuggets of gold. Paradise Roasters prides itself on
Espresso Classico
Paradise Roasters prides itself on roasting and shipping coffee only after orders are placed. Its metaphoric mission is to bring some paradisiacal warmth from the coffee-growing south to the cool environs of Minnesota. Visit www.paradiseroasters.com or call 763-433-0626 for more information.
