Best Coffee I've Ever Had? Maybe!
I home roasted some great coffee beans today. Great flavor and a great story that goes along with it.
Wow this coffee is amazing. Smokey and chocolate flavors dominate with some toasted nutty almond flavors.
There is just a touch of lemon tartness at the finish.
It holds the unique flavors as the roast gets darker. A very very good bold cup of coffee.
I got it from Burman but I don't see it listed there as of mid September 2017. It is at Cafe Kreyol as a roasted coffee or if you roast your own as green unroasted beans. Cafe Kreyol also has a way to help the coffee farmers with the Own A Tree program starting at under $2.00 a tree.
For the price of a cup of coffee, you can plant a coffee tree in Haiti, that will be nursed and given to a local Haitian in need of employment. All of our planting and nursing is 100% Haitian operated and your donations are tax deductible.
Cafe Kreyol Facebook link
Read this description and the interesting backstory from from Burman Coffee
A very cool single estate coffee from Cafe Kreyol (our Haitian Co-op friends).
Cafe Kreyol goes into some of the most impoverished and trouble areas that are within prime coffee growing territory, organizes farmers, teaches how to correctly process beans, guarantees purchase of the beans at way above market prices insuring it goes directly to the farmers and strives to really turn around some of the more trouble areas, putting people to work at well above average wages and insuring future livelihoods.
Joey, the head of Cafe Kreyol even strives for his US employees the above statement. He finds the hardest working individuals with great work ethics that for one reason or another have really been put down with employment and troubled times to help them recover and build a resume while also being able to help others.
One can feel real good about supporting any of Cafe Kreyols projects and for the most part – really tasty coffees as well.
Cafe Kreyol projects including this one are project coffees (although this is the nicest screen out of the lot), these are not a 0 defect beautiful large screen coffee. It takes around 5-7 years to really turn out a prime coffee operation and most of these are on year 2-3. Great tasting cups but keep in mind – not the worlds best screen.
In 1943, Mr. Belarminio Ramirez started a small company dedicated to the cultivation and marketing of coffee, which over the years grows into a family tradition involves three generations already. The Belarminio Ramirez Group was named in his honor.
Currently the company owns 350 hectares of coffee production, located in the mountains of the central range between 800 and 1500 meters above sea.
Tasting Notes: Very classic good tasting Dominican coffee. Thick and creamy with low acidity and very complex darker tones. Definitely one for you darker roast fans looking for something a bit more exotic. Chocolate, tobacco earthiness, molasses and smokey – it is one complex tasting coffee.
Roasting Notes: Make sure to play around with the roast on this guy, medium to as dark as you want to go is the window to play within. You can really change up the coffee from borderline dark (accentuates a bit of earthiness) to decently dark (stronger but more down the chocolate smokey realm). A couple day setup time really smooths out of the tones.
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