Christmas Coffee
Every Christmas we've pulled out the stops and purchased some special coffee for you to consume or gift. People often ask us about Kona. Or about Jamaica Blue Mountain. We've sold Kona in the past, but I feel like the Kona farmers have fallen behind actual high-grade specialty coffees, and they don't let us taste Kona samples before we buy some, so we have to buy blind and we get what we get. I don't like that.
Last year we bought some really special lots of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffees that were super fresh and super delicious.
This year we're branching out to some awesome Central/South American coffees. These coffees will be for sale just before Christmas. You'll need to get your name on a sign-up sheet if you want some. I'll have sign-ups beginning today and when they run out, they run out.
The first coffee is the El Boton Natural. You'll remember it from a couple months ago when we roasted a very small amount we had FedEx'd from Colombia. The Tulsa World wrote a small article about it a couple weeks ago. I wrote a story about the El Boton for the January issue of Fresh Cup magazine. And I don't want to spill all the beans yet, but a MAJOR periodical is featuring the story of this coffee and our involvement in its production in the March issue. You're going to love this coffee. Part of its greatness is that Colombia doesn't produce naturals. We helped spur the idea for this coffee with the owner of El Boton, Ariel Montoya, and our favorite cupper/exporter in Colombia, Cristina Garces. I believe the future of the DoubleShot is fantastically (fortunately) linked to the palate and resourcefulness of Cristina. The El Boton tastes Fruity. Fruity like a natural Sidamo. Of berries. Some spice like you might find in an 18-year-old Talisker. But SWEET like cake and tropical like guava. It has a fine, heavy body and a bright, Yirgacheffe-like acidity. I love it.
I carried a big sack of this coffee back from Colombia on my last trip, but that is only enough to produce 40 quart cans. It will sell for $24 per quart. And it will go fast.
The second coffee we'll be selling this Christmas is one that has become VERY popular over the past few years in the specialty coffee industry. It's from Panama, from a farm called La Esmeralda. The coffee is known as Gesha. Gesha is a varietal of coffee tree that probably came from the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia a long, long time ago. The owners of La Esmeralda singled out this varietal and planted a lot of it on their farm. It took the industry by storm a couple years ago when the top lot sold for $130 per pound UNroasted at the Panama coffee auction. The Gesha we'll be selling is from this year's Panama auction. There were six bags in this auction lot and we got one. It's from the Canas Verdes region of Panama, a sub-region of Boquete. Hacienda La Esmeralda produced this coffee on a parcel called Colga. The auction tasting notes say "Cocoa and nutmeg, with complex floral notes produce and enticing and aromatic cup." Traditionally the Gesha coffees are floral and citrus tasting. And delicious. We're really excited to have this coffee. We'll be selling it for $50 per quart (about 3/4 pound). Again, you'll need to get on the list if you want to buy any of this coffee.
Two options to treat yourselves or your friends and family with exceptional coffee from the DoubleShot. If you're interested in buying either or both, please email me: Brian at DoubleShotCoffee.com. Or come to the store and sign up in person.
Happy holidays to us. We're lucky to have such amazing coffee. Our mouths will thank us.
posted by Brian at 12:48 PM
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I will roast these coffees on Sunday 12/20 and you can pick them up or we'll ship them on Monday 12/21.
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