2018-03-17 — Guatemala Xinabajul San Pedro Necta

Roast Date: 17 Mar 2018
Roast Level: FC
Duration: 12m25s
First Crack @ 10m40s
1.2lb → 1.03lb; 14% Weight Loss

Sweet Maria’s

The dry fragrance of San Pedro Necta has nice sweet smelling dry fragrance, allusions to ginger snap cookies at City roast level with a mix of dark sugar and subtle spice notes, and Full City roasts shift to strong bittersweetness that is accompanied by wafts of raisin and cola. There’s a nice range of smells here, and adding hot water ushers in more roasted nut type smells in the light roast, whereas bittersweetness remains resolute at Full City, and breaking through the crust gives off an incredible smell of dark chocolate with dried fruit accents. As a cup, my City+ roast San Pedro Necta showcased flavors of toasted muscovado sugar and roasted almond, vanilla and cinnamon powder accents in the finish. Acidity is on the ‘slight’ side, but still offers a soft structure ala Red Delicious apples. There’s a chocolate undertone too that flourishes when you reach Full City roast level. A nice, rich flavor of fine Dutch drinking cocoa comes through in darker roasts and hangs on long after the final sip. This is a great drinking coffee, and one that fits the daily drinker roster - sweet, balanced, bodied, and without any ‘over the top’, top notes. San Pedro Necta also makes a great dual-use coffee with SO espresso shots displaying rich chocolate tones and inky mouthfeel in the Full City roast range.

Roast Notes

I got distracted so I didn’t preheat the bucket as long as usual, and it’s cold outside so I think that also made it take longer to warm up.

Cupping

Sadly I was sick the entire time I had this coffee so never was able to taste it properly.