May's Fresh Out of the Roaster Releases
May is a month that really boosts my interest in multiple outdoor activities : running, frisbee, roasting... Roasting?! Yes. You'd better believe it.
At just about this time (and temperature) each year, we here at the Gimme Roasting Farm open our doors to let the sunshine and cool breezes in. We have supreme bragging rights over copious amounts of 'useless' space (as Allen of Mott St. likes to call it), but, of course, we don't think of it that way. We call it 'possibility', or even 'space to think'. There is certainly no better or relaxing place to contemplate the roasting of some of the world's best coffees. Hear hear!
At just about this time (and temperature) each year, we here at the Gimme Roasting Farm open our doors to let the sunshine and cool breezes in. We have supreme bragging rights over copious amounts of 'useless' space (as Allen of Mott St. likes to call it), but, of course, we don't think of it that way. We call it 'possibility', or even 'space to think'. There is certainly no better or relaxing place to contemplate the roasting of some of the world's best coffees. Hear hear!
Enough with the sentimentality! Let's talk coffee. This month we are featuring 3 phenomenal gems : Rwanda Epiphanie, Brazil Santa Clara (organic) and Colombia San Rafael. All of these coffees are in season and ready for your grinder. Let's meet 'em.Colombia San Rafael
This Colombia is part 1 of 2 microlots that we have purchased from Cristina Garces of Montes y Colinas, a fabulous exporter specializing in quality coffees from la Concordia, Colombia. We have been in contact with Montes y Colinas for some time, and have even traveled with them in Concordia, but these are the first coffees that we have purchased and offered to you (the second offering, Las Animas, is a 12 bag lot that will be released in July).
The Colombia San Rafael has beautiful bouquet of ripe red fruits and ambrosia. It was recently explained as "a layered, sweet-smelling experience like in the evening when it's getting dusky and the sweet flowers on the trees are all opening up and wafting around". I don't know if you can get more literal than that, but you're welcome to try. Remember, we only have 10 bags of this coffee, and it's going to go fast, so don't wait to be part of the experience.
Rwanda Epiphanie
I know I've blogged about this coffee before, and I promise I'm not just bringing it up again because I am secretly in love with it. It's no secret. I'm in love with Rwanda Epiphanie. There. I said it.
This coffee has almost all of the interesting acidity of a Kenyan coffee, but is riddled with ginger, black currant, spices and, dare I say, intrigue. It is truly unique, plump, and clean clean clean. So I ask: what's not to love? If you have the opportunity to try it as a Featured Roast in one of our retail stores, you know that it'll be a good day indeed.
Brazil Santa Clara
Don't be fooled into thinking that the organic certification is the only thing that Brazil Santa Clara has going for it. This coffee is grown in the Andradas wine region in southern Minas Gerais. If you haven't made the connection that coffee is and should be treated as a luxury beverage (like wine), then here is a perfect example of why this is true. Grape growers and wine makers know that the end result of their product is inseparable from soil type, fruit varietal, production and processing methods. Think of coffee with this very same philosophy. It takes education, time and planning in order to produce some of the world's best coffees. The Teixeira family knows this, which is why we offer this beautiful Brazilian coffee to you.
The Brazil Santa Clara is gung ho peanut butter oil from start to finish. It has killer lipids that create much more than a taste sensation experience. Think body. Think weight, and mouthfeel. That is what I love most about this coffee, and think you will too.
The Colombia San Rafael has beautiful bouquet of ripe red fruits and ambrosia. It was recently explained as "a layered, sweet-smelling experience like in the evening when it's getting dusky and the sweet flowers on the trees are all opening up and wafting around". I don't know if you can get more literal than that, but you're welcome to try. Remember, we only have 10 bags of this coffee, and it's going to go fast, so don't wait to be part of the experience.
Rwanda EpiphanieI know I've blogged about this coffee before, and I promise I'm not just bringing it up again because I am secretly in love with it. It's no secret. I'm in love with Rwanda Epiphanie. There. I said it.
This coffee has almost all of the interesting acidity of a Kenyan coffee, but is riddled with ginger, black currant, spices and, dare I say, intrigue. It is truly unique, plump, and clean clean clean. So I ask: what's not to love? If you have the opportunity to try it as a Featured Roast in one of our retail stores, you know that it'll be a good day indeed.
Brazil Santa Clara
Don't be fooled into thinking that the organic certification is the only thing that Brazil Santa Clara has going for it. This coffee is grown in the Andradas wine region in southern Minas Gerais. If you haven't made the connection that coffee is and should be treated as a luxury beverage (like wine), then here is a perfect example of why this is true. Grape growers and wine makers know that the end result of their product is inseparable from soil type, fruit varietal, production and processing methods. Think of coffee with this very same philosophy. It takes education, time and planning in order to produce some of the world's best coffees. The Teixeira family knows this, which is why we offer this beautiful Brazilian coffee to you.
The Brazil Santa Clara is gung ho peanut butter oil from start to finish. It has killer lipids that create much more than a taste sensation experience. Think body. Think weight, and mouthfeel. That is what I love most about this coffee, and think you will too.
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