Portola Coffee Lab - Heza Lot 1

Coffee Origin:
Burundi, Kayanza Province

Coffee Species:
Arabica

Coffee Varietal:
Bourbon

Coffee Elevation:
1,900 - 2,000 M

Coffee Farm/ Producers
Mating Commune

Coffee Roasting Date, Roaster
Portola Coffee Lab - 11/30/2015

Coffee Processing
Wet

 

Notes 

The beans have the fragrance of toffee, cream, tobacco, vanilla, apricot jelly, demerara sugar, red grape, oak, lily, summer savory, stewed tomato, bergamot, hazelnut, blackberry, carrot, soil, coca nib, fuyu persimmon, sapote, and pulasan

The grounds have the fragrance of bergamot, jasmine, demerara sugar, cedar, celery root, sapote, sun dried tomato, raw honey, red grape, black current, black apple, vanilla sugar, leather, apple banana and roasted hazelnut

 

CUPPING

The aroma of this coffee is of oak, hazelnut, soil, sapote, dried apricot, blackberry, vanilla sugar, concord grape, dried black current, red apple, bergamot, cedar, and delicate hint of tobacco

This is a full body coffee with a smooth and rich creamy mouth fell that is thick like a syrup

This is a high acidity coffee that is bright with a tart juicy complexity tapering to a sweet delicate balance

 

The flavors of this coffee are of merlot grape, black current, bergamot, cedar, tobacco, sapote, coca nib, blackberry, black apple, raw honey, blood orange caramel, dried apricot, goji, soil, pinion, and hops

As it cools a creamy caramel develops along with a red grapefruit peel. There are notes of red grape, lingonberry, and pulasan present that where not before and has mellowed out a lot

GINO

The aroma of the cup is of sapote, dill, hazelnut, bergamot, celery seed, black apple, soil, summer savory, dried coffee cherry, crimson raisin, and apple banana

The flavors of the cup are of summer savory, plantain, sapote, malt, black current, roasted cocoa nibs, hazelnut skin, dried apricot, black current, tobacco, and bergamot

The body is smooth and creamy with a rich velvety mouth feel

The acidity has been lowered but is still bright and juicy with a sweet delicate complexity 

 

This is to me the best way to brew this coffee

CHEMEX

The aroma is of march chocolate, chicory, cane sugar, black grape, black apple, and black cardamom, tangerine, hazelnut and plum

The flavors are of tart cherry, caramel, summer savory, plantain, sapote, celery seed, red grapefruit, vanilla, and red grape

The acidity is much like the Gino, bright and vibrant with a juicy tartness

The body is medium with a creamy and slightly rougher mouth feel then the Gino 

I recommend using this for batch brewing this coffee


The Roastery of Cave Creek - Ethiopian

Coffee Origin:
Ethiopia

Coffee Species
Arabica

Coffee Varietal
Heirloom

Coffee Elevation


Coffee Farm/ Producers


Coffee Roasting Date, Roaster
The Roastery of Cave Creek - 11/9/2015

Coffee Processing
Wet

 

 

The beans have the fragrance of bakers chocolate, fish sauce, goat cheese, ponzu, ginger snap, honey comb, carbon, fried plantain, rose hips, lilac, maple nut, red apple, malt vinegar 

The grounds have the fragrance of malt, white vinegar, carbon, ponzu, ginger, magnolia, raw cashew, damp soil, metallic, musk, pea

 

CUPPING

The aroma of this coffee is of  maple, ponzu, dark chocolate, molasses, almond, snow pea, damp soil, malt vinegar, coriander

This is a medium body coffee that is rich and deep with dry rough texture through out

This is a high acidity coffee that is unbalanced, dirty, with a muted complexity and a sharp tart note

Flavor 

The flavors of this coffee are of ash, carbon, soil, black cardamom, malt vinegar, raw cashew, burnt plantain, and ash

As it cools a subtle hint of bakers chocolate develops but the coffee is still dry, and has the taste of order roasting and over fermentation 

 

GINO

The aroma of the cup is of buckwheat, letter, toffee, malt, pumpernickel bread, vanillin, and Bosk pear

The flavor of the coffee is of caramel, bitter sweet chocolate, damp soil, black current, maple, ponzu, ash, and raw almond

The acidity is much like the cupping but dryer and has a chalky after taste

The body is smooth with a slight juicy mouth feel but is still dry and rough

 

THIS IS PROBABLY THE WOST COFFEE I HAVE HAD OF THE YEAR