COSTA RICAWENDY ALVARADO

Espresso
New
Product description
A "funky"  nice balanced espresso from natural Costa Rica? You want to taste it! Lots of sweetness and pleasant acidity from the ripe cherries and figs, along with the aftertaste of quality dark chocolate, will give you a great experience in both espresso and milk drinks.

14,97 53,10 

Characteristics of coffee
Farm

Brunca

Processing

natural

Cultivar

Catuaí

Flavor profile

Cherry, figs, dark chocolate

Type of coffee

100%arabica, specialty coffee, coffee beans

Manufacturer

IC ROASTERS s.r.o., Kainarova 2672/26, 61600, Brno, CZ

Recomended recipe

Množství kávy:
9 g single, 18 g double

Teplota:
94,5 °C

Výsledná váha nápoje:
20 g single, 40 g double

Délka extrakce:
30 vteřin

About coffee

Joicafe is run by Wendy Alvarado and her two sisters. The work they do at their wet mill is so impressive that they have slowly, but surely, made quite a reputation for themselves as some of the best processors and producers to come out of their little, remote town in the southern region of Costa Rica. They have definitely brought pride to their family as is easily seen when their parents speak about the excellent work which they are doing. Their family has always been farmers, but not necessarily with coffee as this area was mainly known for grazing cattle and growing tomatoes. In fact, coffee was never seen as a great option as an agricultural product in their area as the Brunca Growing Region had a bad reputation for quality and therefore coffees from their town would fetch unsustainable prices. However, since this particular town at the base of Costa Rica’s tallest peak, Chirripo, named “Vista de Rivas” has the highest elevations and very fertile soils – the Alvarado Family had the vision and took the risk of starting to grow specialty coffee.

About processing

They collect the ripest cherries and tell us that for naturals it is particularly important to select only ripe fruit. After measuring the coffee their pickers picked, they bring them to the wet mill and here they pass it through a floating system where they clean and disinfect the fruit by removing strange materials and unripe fruit. They let the clean cherries rest for 50 hours in mountains, then they spread out the cherries in a thinner layer and sundry them on patios covered by a greenhouse to protect the coffee from rain for 20-25 days depending on the weather.

 

Taste profile
How to understand the grid on packaging?

We wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to choose your coffee, so we worked with the guys from Steezy Graphic Studio to come up with a “grid” – a simple grid where you can easily find the characteristics of each coffee.
The red dot next to the description of each coffee is placed exactly there, so that you can easily imagine how the coffee will taste.

Citrus – chocolate
Here we’d like to give you an idea of how fruity the coffee will be. There’s a long way from citrus to chocolate, so imagine more in between:
citrus, berries, green apples, red apples, stone fruits, dried fruits, nuts, milk chocolate and dark chocolate 😉

Mild – wild
What is mild coffee? We’d say it’s unpretentious. A coffee that you can just have every morning and not have to think too much about it. It’s just good.
The higher the dot, the more excitement you can expect in the taste of coffee. The more surprising and fun it can be. These coffees are fruity, fun, interesting and make you think about what it is that you actually enjoy about them so much.