| COUNTRY: Costa Rica VARIETY: Caturra and Catuai ALTITUDE: 1500 – 1800 MASL PROCESS: Washed ROAST: Light-medium |
EXTRACTION SETTINGS
- Equipment: Gaggia Classic Pro E24, DF54 Grinder
- Grind setting: 5.5
- Dose in / yield out: 18g in / 37g to 39g out
- Extraction time: 30 seconds
- Other notes: 18g IMS precision basket, 1.0mm puck screen, frozen beans.
By the time I got these beans, they were 28 days old and thus a little past their peak freshness. After figuring out the optimal dose for my setup, I immediately froze my coffee in 18g doses to ensure those wonderful but unstable compounds responsible for taste, do not continue degrading. I will definitely write about freezing beans and will link it here when that post is live.
By freezing my beans, I was able to enjoy this coffee slowly. The packaging states that Hermosa is “Your fruity wake up call” and is full of fruit, nuts and chocolate mocha flavours. It was quite the smooth cup that I realised I could play around with. A little on the shorter side of extraction (below the classic 1:2 ratio) you were dancing in cocoa and cream. Let the espresso extract for a little longer – fruit and nuts came out to play.
A solid cup, with no real complaints. Next time, I will aim to get a pack roasted a little more recently – I wonder how it would have tasted at only 2 weeks old?
Rating: 🤎🤎🤎 (3 / 5) Balanced, clear and complex.
| FLAVOUR PROFILE |
| – Flavour: Cashew, milk chocolate, mocha and pear. – Acidity: Sparkling – Body: Creamy, silky – Finish: Lingering |
A BIT ABOUT THE PRODUCERS
In the small town of Santa Maria de Dota, Costa Rica, at the centre of the coffee growers of Tarrazu, is the coffee processing mill and facilities belonging to Coope Dota. Established in 1960, this group of producers grew from 96 to 800 strong by 2017. Prior to their establishment, coffee farming in the area was difficult due to little or no local expertise, no nearby wet mills and middlemen paying producers unfairly. With fairer pricing, good quality and their focus on the people – this cooperative grew. Come 2011, Coope Dota became the first certified carbon neutral coffee processor in the world. Their plans – to go further than neutrality by removing air pollution with their fertiliser production that uses waste water from their honey processing. 🌎
More information can be found from the roaster, @MissionCoffeeWorks
Until our next cup,
Coffee Log 
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