Seasonal Coffees

These beans are some of the heaviest, smoothest, and most complex coffees in the world.  Most of the coffees from Sumatra are dry-processed, but some are semi-washed.  The majority of Sumatran coffee is marked Mandheling or Lintong and is grown inland from the southern coast.  Sumatra coffee grown farther west is usually marked Gayo Mountain. Sumatra Gayo coffee is described as sweet and clean.

Kenya Peaberry is a single plantation coffee from the Tassia Estate.   The freshness of the coffee is apparent and it's bursting with juicy, stoned fruit flavors. 

Tassia is located at roughly 1500 meters altitude in the Ruiru and Kiambu region, about 20 miles north of Nairobi. Varietals in the SL series, 28 and 34 are planted in red, loamy soils.  Only a small percentage of any crop is peaberry.  

Tanzania Peaberry Coffee: For those who are not familiar with the term, peaberries are a mutation whereby the seed of the coffee cherry, normally two halves or flat beans, form a cylinder or pearl shape instead, and do not divide.  They are sometimes called pearlberries and have especially nice roasting qualities because they roll in the drum, having no flat sides that are prone to scorching.

One of my favorites! And a great story: In the 14 years since the genocide, when 800,000 people died during three months of violence, this country has become perhaps the world's leading example of how empowering women can fundamentally transform post-conflict economies and fight the cycle of poverty. That is particularly clear in Maraba, a southern village where a host of women -- largely relegated to backbreaking field work in the days before the genocide -- found unwanted opportunity in the fertile lands they would inherit from slaughtered husbands, fathers and brothers.