Price range: £9.00 through £105.00
ROAST & PROFILE
peru
ethiopia
indonesia
honduras
REGION
various
ALTITUDE
1400m - 1900m
TASTING NOTES
Cocoa, Vanilla & Dried Fruit
VARIETAL
Typica, Heirloom & Catimor
PROCESS
Washed & Natural
ROAST LEVEL
It’s a winner! 1 star great taste award 2020
This medium roast blend has a light, citrusy character with notes of vanilla coming through at the end.
Named after the ancient Incan, mountain citadel in modern-day Peru, Machu is a sweet and rounded coffee. As the name would suggest, this blend is driven by a high-grade Peruvian bean, which offers up rich, and syrupy dried fruit flavours with a light spiced finish. To fill out the body of the blend we’ve added a punchy Indonesian bean and a rich, fudge like Honduras to add creamy sweetness. To round it out fully we’ve added an Ethiopian bean with a complex acidity to offer up juicy, fruity notes to the equation.
This 2020 Great Taste award winner is a favourite for those who love complex, sweet, fruity and fully rounded coffees.
Recipe
Machu is a medium roast blend consisting of some high acidity beans. For this reason, when brewing as espresso you’ll be wanting to push your extraction time past 25 seconds to avoid any sourness. A ratio of about 1:2 of ground coffee weight in to brewed coffee weight out, and an extraction time of 26-30 seconds should allow for more sugars to extract. This will ensure you’re tasting rich, dried fruit and vanilla flavours instead of sour fruit flavours.
If the acidity is too sharp the moment the coffee touches your lips, ensure you grind a little finer next time to offset this. The same applies when brewing as a filter coffee.
If the brew lacks richness but is dominated by more sour notes you want to pull more from the bean by grinding finer. Push the brew until it’s rich like chocolate and vanilla with a dried fruit finish.
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