March into Spring with Coffee
Carrie Masek
Spring is coming up soon. Daylight Savings, St. Patrick's Day and then the first day of Spring. If you're like us, you'll want some great coffee to warm those chilly and dark-again mornings. Here's some for you to try.
Our Coffee of the Month for March is Morning Mist, a coffee lively enough to brighten the darkest late winter morning and smooth enough to sip all day. You can even mix it with whiskey in the evening for a memorable Irish Coffee. Smooth and sweet, lively and rich, Morning Mist is available all month in both full and 1/2 roast bags.
Our Exploration Coffee for March is our brand new Roaster Gold, Kenya Kiambu AA Plus. Roasted to a City roast level, Kenya Kiambu AA Plus is lively and sweet, with a creamy mouthfeel, bright grapefruit notes, sugary sweetness, and a rich cocoa finish. Available in both full and 1/2 roast bags all month.
We had to wait a little longer this year, but Kona Pahala is back! Smooth, and rich, it's as sweet as a tropical flower. For those of us who are longing to get away, Kona Pahala is a welcome Hawaiian vacation in a cup!
We’re almost out of Ecuador Palmito Pamba. We have new crop Ecuador on the way, but like many things these days, the shipment has been delayed. Luckily, we just found a very small amount of an amazing microlot Ecuador.
Galo Morales, the winner of the 2020 Tazo Dorado (Ecuador’s version of the Cup of Excellence), took a small amount of the coffee from his farm and processed the green beans using an experimental natural process called anaerobic macerated honey. The importer described the coffee’s flavor as, “… delightfully sweet with grounding notes of brown baking spice, milk chocolate and sweet pipe tobacco. On top of this we find a plethora of cherry flavors – think cascara and pink cherry. The fruit sweetness ranges from comforting simplicity, like pink lady apples, to unique and specific notes of strawberry and ripe banana. All of this rounded out by a creamy mouthfeel that’s distinctly vanilla-y.”
Wow! No wonder they made it one of their Crown Jewels. We’re very excited to try this coffee and offer it to you. Hopefully, you’ll see it on the website in about a week. We’ll be calling the coffee “Ecuador Experimental Honey,” and I’ll let you know when it’s available. We’ll only have about 15 roasts, though, so don’t wait if you’re interested in trying it.
Later this month, we should receive the new crop of a lovely, microlot Brazil from the Capim Seco farm in Carmo de Minas. The Best Cup Carmo competition was canceled this year because of Covid, but the coffee from Capim Seco would have been a contender. The pre-shipment notes describe a coffee both sweeter and livelier that most Brazilian coffees with cooked raspberry and cherry flavors and tangy wine notes. We’re excited to try this coffee when we receive it and look forward to offering it to you as our newest Roast Gold coffee, “No Contest Carmo.”
Have you been enjoying our Roaster Gold coffees? If so, please join the conversation and share your thoughts on the Facebook thread or in a comment on this blog. Or, if you'd like to share your opinions with the wider world, leave us a coffee review on Google or on your favorite review site. Not only do we value your opinions, but reviews help more people find us. Help us connect coffee lovers to fresh, quality coffee!
And finally, to thank the readers of this blog, we’re offering a free 1/2 roast of Morning Mist with your first order of the month. Just write, “March,” in the box for Additional Instructions and we’ll throw in the 1/2 roast pouch at no extra charge.
We wish all our customers continued good health and warmer weather.
~ Carrie, Paul and all of us at Coffee by the Roast