2019-06-12 — Ethiopia Nansebo Tulu Golla

Roast Date: 12 Jun 2019
Roast Level: C+
Duration: 12m39s
First Crack @ 9m35s
1.2lb → 1.034lb; 14% Weight Loss

Sweet Maria’s

City and City+ roasting produce a fresh smelling coffee, sweet honey and simple syrup allusions are quite attractive in the ground coffee and a fragrant floral nectar note contrasts nicely. The wet aroma is delicate but with floral intensity. Honeysuckle and freesia florals are perfumed and complex and honey sweetness builds in the steam coming off the coffee. Light roasts are really where it’s at with this coffee, constructing a “light and bright” cup that brings to mind the floral and tea-like qualities of what we think of as archetypal characteristics of coffee from the Yirga Cheffe region. Star jasmine and honeysuckle flowers come to mind when working through the coffee, a fragrant highlight that triggers a retronasal response. The cup shows abundant sweetness too in light roasts that when hot has the transparency of simple syrup or table sugar, shifting to more fragrant honey as the coffee cools off a bit. Don’t take this one beyond City+. Body is on the thin side, which lends to the delicate nature of the cup characteristics found on the lighter end of the spectrum.