Coffees

Crowd-pleasing cup, top notes pleasantly restrained amidst a bittersweet backdrop. Malty sweetness, molasses, cinnamon stick, dried green apple, and dark cocoa roast flavors. City to Full City+. Good for espresso.

A stunning cup when roasted to City/City+, light and bright, long-steeped black tea notes that linger, sugar cane, cinnamon bark, aromatic allspice and rose hips, lemongrass-like acidity that pops. City to Full City. Bourbon is the dominant cultivar in the region (as is the case in most of Burundi), a variety known for syrupy sweetness… Continue reading Burundi Kayanza Kazoza N’Ikawa:10/1/2023

Light roasts show spiced teas, compact sweetness, dried green apple, and malic acidic impression like fresh pear. Darker development brings out layered bitter-sweets, and dark fruit hint. City to Full City+. Rosma makes a great Guatemalan espresso. Thick, rich chocolate flavors have depth in bittersweetness, and the syrupy liquid is marked by a slight tangy… Continue reading Guatemala Michicoy Finca Rosma: 11/9/2023

The San Pedro growing region is in the mountainous Huehuetenango, where farm altitude ranges from 1800 - 2000 meters ASL. This coffee comes from a family run an export business in Huehuetenango. Cupping Notes from Sweet Maria's The dry fragrance is very sweet, City+ roasts having the crystalline sweetness of white frosting, with faint allusions… Continue reading Guatemala Xinabajul San Perdro Necta: 2/19/2023

Dipilto is a premier coffee growing region, with diverse microclimates and good altitude, optimal conditions for producing specialty coffees. Finca La Laguna is operated by producer Luis Emilio Valladarez. The farm is situated at 1100 - 1350 meters, and planted entirely in Caturra. Natural shade trees abound, the coffee is protected from warm afternoon sun.… Continue reading Nicaragua Dipilto Finca La Laguna: 2/19/2023

The farm sits on the low part of the slopes of Barva Volcano in Costa Rica's West Valley, affording nutrient rich soil from age old mineral deposits from ancient volcanic eruptions. Jardin de Aromas looks just as the name sounds, a garden of aromas. It's heavily populated with coffee shrubs of course, and also with… Continue reading Costa Rica Jardin de Aromas: 2/19/2023

Finca Miravalle is owned by Luis Duarte, and is located in Apaneca, Ahuachapan, not too far from the Santa Ana volcano. It's part of a much larger group of coffee plots, a few of them demarcated by cultivar separations, and the larger plots a mix of cultivars. Miravalle is perched at roughly 1500 meters above… Continue reading El Salvador Miravalle Centroamericano: 2/19/2023

Xinabajul Flavio Del Cerro is a mix of Bourbon, Catuai, Caturra and Typica and is grown between 1700 and 1800 meters ASL, located in the sub-municipality of La Libertad, Huehuetenango. Tasting notes from Sweet Maria's suggest, ``…unrefined sugars and bittersweetness…and fruited accents across the roast spectrum.'' My espresso had a subtle hazelnut finish. This is… Continue reading Guatemala Xinabajul Flavio Del Cerro: 10/18/2022

Especially good drip coffee, bittersweet chocolate and a hint of cinnamon in the finish. The small village of Piñas is located in Peru's northern district of Chontalí, and home to about 30 coffee producing families. These beans are wet processed and purchased farm to gate. Peruvian and Guatemalan fincas are generally higher altitude than Brazilian… Continue reading Peru Pueblo de Piñas: 6/25/2022

A full bodied coffee with lots of sugars, equal parts fruit and cocoa. For fun, here is how Sweet Maria's describes this coffee: ...sweetness and clean cup flavors all the way up to Full City, our lighter roasts producing a layered profile like honey drizzled pastry with dried and cooked stone fruit flavors. The dry… Continue reading Ethiopia Yirga Cheffe Ajere : 7/10/2022