2017-09-22 — Panama Volcan Baru Bambito
Roast Date: 22 Sep 2017Duration: 13m15s
First Crack @ 10m20s
Rating: ★★★☆☆
1.2lb → 1.023lb; 15% Weight Loss
Sweet Maria’s
The dry fragrance touches on brown sugar and vanilla bean smells, along with a nice dried apple note. There’s a clean sweetness in the coffee smells, and the wet aromatics show characteristics of raw brown sugar, and definitely some fruit, but hard to put my finger on exactly what. A honey to brown sugar sweetness is striking in the brewed coffee, and lays a stabilizing groundwork on which the rest of the profile rests. A marshmallow note accents the cup, along with green tea, and a flavor of apple and walnut that carries through to a clean aftertaste. Acidity is mild-to-moderate, but a tea-like cleanliness pulls the finish to a point. This coffee performed well for us at a wide range of roasts, and a great candidate for those who appreciate the roast toned bittersweetness that comes with 2nd snaps. Crisp, sweet, balanced, and clean, this is a coffee with staying power: meaning, yes, we’d drink it every day.
This was the first roast of the season where it was so cold outside it slowed down the roast. Just before first crack I put the lid of the bread maker on partially to keep the cold air from blowing in. We’ll see what the effect is.
Acidity: The acidity of this roast is disticnty vegetal. I am not a fan.
Sweetness: I can barely taste any sweetness at all, which is a shame because the previous roast was pretty sweet.
Finish: If anything the finish remind me of spent coffee grounds; not good.
Overall: I’ll have to give this a few days but as it stands I think I can confidently say that the weather affected this roast negatively.