This week we have a very special coffee featured on the blog. The coffee was roasted by Denmark's Coffee Collective - this is reason to celebrate in itself since they are one of the greatest coffee roasters out there. But what really makes this coffee special is it is a Gesha cultivar from Hacienda La Esmeralda in Boquete, Panama. In some sense this is the "Gesha that launched a thousand Geshas" - as you may recall from prior blog posts: the Gesha cultivar was just an obscure cultivar until the "best of Panama" competition in 2005 whereby a Gesha grown by the Peterson family at Hacienda La Es ..read more

For our coffee this week we are back to Woolwich's finest: Plot Coffee Roasters and another one of their "Icon Series" coffees. As you may recall these represent some of the most rare and interesting coffees available. This time the coffee is called: Milenio Carbonic Maceration Enrique Navarro Caravajal - this is a bit of a mouthful so let's break down the name bit by bit. Firstly "Milenio" represents the coffee cultivar, you would be forgiven for not having heard of this cultivar before since it is fairly rare. This cultivar is also known as H10 and it is a hybrid (F1) cultivar that is a cro ..read more

This week we take a (rather belated) look at the October offering from my KaffeBox subscription. Due to a bumper haul of "exotic" coffees lately I put these coffees on ice (literally - in the freezer) for a couple of weeks. This time the featured roaster is da Matteo, located in Gothenburg, Sweden. This is a completely new roaster to me and one I don't know much about. The first thing that I notice on their understated packaging is that they offer 2 distinct set of taste (and aroma) notes depending on whether you use soft or hard water. This is a first for me and I think I approve. Water make ..read more

This week our featured coffee comes from Assembly Coffee Roasters located in Brixton, London. It's been a while since Assembly has featured on this blog (not for any particular reason) so it is a welcome return. I find Assembly to be one of the best and most consistent roasters in the UK so I'm sure this coffee will be a good one. The coffee in question comes from their "Limited Edition" series of coffees. As the name suggests these are not your "everyday" coffees but something a bit more special. Assembly don't seem to have a particular release schedule for these and they turn up as/when som ..read more

This week we have another "Icon Series" coffee from Plot Coffee Roasting in Woolwich, London. As you may recall the Icon series represents some of the more sort after and rare coffees available, and as part of the 10th installment in this series we have another special coffee. As with many of the Icon coffees its the cultivar that makes this coffee unique: in this case we have a "Wush Wush" cultivar. You can think of Wush Wush as the precocious younger brother to the Gesha cultivar. Like Gesha it has its origins in Ethiopia but has since been exported to other areas, with most (that I've seen ..read more

This week we have a bit of a special coffee on show. Whenever a gesha cultivar ends up in JazzCoffeeStuff HQ it is always a cause for celebration, but in this case the excitement doubles since it is from one of my favoruite coffee roasters (and one I don't get to purchase from as much as I'd like) - Morgon, located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Unfortunately this means there is a high level of expectation behind this coffee so let's see if it can live up to it. We have featured Gesha cultivars a few times in the blog before. As a quick reminder for those unfamiliar: the Gesha varietal quickly became ..read more

This week we head back to Devon based roaster: Crankhouse Coffee. Crankhouse have appeared on the blog a few times before and they're a very dependable roaster and regularly provide stellar coffee. As of late I've noticed they're particularly good for the "funkier" styles of coffee with more ambitious processing methods. And this weeks coffee provides an example of this. This weeks coffee comes from Yirgacheffe, Eithiopia - one of the more recognizable and prized growing regions within Ethiopia. The name of this coffee is: "Banko Gotiti Anaerobic (Strawberry)". Banko Gotiti is the name of the ..read more

This weeks featured roaster is Curve Coffee Roasters from Margate. As you may recall Curve have featured on the blog a few times and rarely disappoint. For my money they're one of the most dependable roasters around and I don't think I've ever got a "bad" coffee from them. This time I ordered a Kenyan coffee from them. It is called: Gakuyu-Ini AA. It is a washed processed lot consisting of the classic Kenyan cultivars SL28 and SL34. As with other Kenyan coffees the "AA" refers to the screen size of the beans - AA being the largest size. When I first got into specialty coffee there was a lot o ..read more

On the blog this week we feature the latest coffees from my KaffeBox subscription. This time they feature Jacu Coffee Roastery ( https://www.jacu.no/ ) another roastery I haven't tried before. The coffee blog this week may be a little shorter than usual as I also recently took delivery of a new coffee grinder: The coffees supplied by KaffeBox this month were used as the first coffees to try this grinder out and compare to my old grinders back to back. As such I wasn't really giving the coffees themselves as much attention as usual. On the filter side we have a washed Ethiopian coffee: Chelch ..read more

This week we take another trip back to the Plot Roasting Icon Series - this is the 9th instalment of this coffee subscription that has so far offered up some fantastic coffees. As you may remember the Icon series is meant to represent the best, most interesting and rare coffees that Plot offer. The coffee featured is another from Diego Bermudez - a farmer who has featured many times on the blog previously. One of the true masters of the "alternative processing" methods. This time the coffee showcases how a careful processing can elevate even the most humble of cultivars: in this case a Castil ..read more