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Beans – African-Arabian
Tanzania AA Estate Lima
My first Tanzanian coffee brought some surprises and some delights…
Amazing Africa
Too much coffee is never enough!
Two new beans arrive this week from Africa – the home of the most exciting and wild coffee…
Rwanda - land of a thousand hills
The Rwanda AA Bourbon is proving to be an intriguing coffee. Probably because I know little about the central African country (other than what came out during the tragic civil war of the early 90’s).
But Rwanda – known as the ‘land of a thousand hills’ – has huge potential as a coffee growing nation, that is clearly just starting to bear fruit (pardon the pun).
Fair Trade Ethiopian Harar - revisited
With the return of my much-missed espresso machine, I got around to tasting a number of beans that I’ve been roasting up, but only tasting as plunger for the last three weeks.
The Fair Trade Ethiopian Harar was one.
Ethiopian Harar - Fair Trade
My first purchase of a Fair Trade coffee has proved to be a serendipitous and mouth-watering discovery…
Yeman Mocca Mattari
This is a rare coffee from the tiny nation of Yemen. This bag was from the new crop (2005), which is just stunning.
It’s two main characteristics are abundant fruit (berry and apricot) and delicious dark chocolate.[more…]
July 5th 2009
5:26 AM AEDST
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