One of the things that I find so wonderful about Costa Rican coffee is it's even-handedness and consistency. This week, however, I've decided to revisit something a little different. From the very same famers I visited a few years ago, your Costa Rican Berlina Honey Micro-Lot is a wild and satisfying experience. This is a lower-yield coffee, extremely rare, dried slowly in direct sunlight. It's a gorgeous roast with a floral, almost hoppy nose, a sweet profile, and a creamier body than anything I've encountered from Central America before.
This micro-lot is unusual because it's an "African Style" (pulped natural) coffee, in which fruit pulp is left to dry on the seed. This coffee is exquisitely balanced, using highly-refined, first-world cultivation methods, but with an old-world spin that yields sweeter flavors reminiscent of a dark cola beverage. Think of something in-between a sassafras root cola and ginger beer, infused with apricot & plum. This possesses a bright acidity and a clean, lingering finish, with pleasurable flavors from beginning to end. There's also a delicate earthiness that's quite unusual for pulped naturals, but it's that touch of ginger and spice that makes this one of the easiest sipping-coffees available.
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