friday.29.july.2011
The Social coffee stocks have been depleted and so we’ve moved on to some freshly roasted Panamanian coffees. The website http://www.coffeefrompanama.com/ offers a one stop shop for coffee beans from a variety of Panama’s leading coffee estates in the Boquete region. These coffees are labeled by estate and not individually named. I haven't been able to figure out why it works that way; but it does seem that each estate produces just one or two coffees every harvest. This same Boquete region is home to the famed Esmeralda coffee, which comes from the Geisha coffee plant variety. These Geisha coffees grow extremely well in Boquete and are the feature coffee beans of the region. As a result of the focus of Geishas, coffees from these estates are classed as either Geisha or non-Geisha varieties.
The Elida estate coffee is consistently judged as a top 10 non-Geisha coffee. In 2007 it was actually chosen as the top non-Geisha in the Best of Panama competition.
Over the last week, we’ve been using these beans for our espressos and regular drip coffee. This medium roast coffee has a mild yet full and rich flavour, which is more floral than fruity.
The Silk almond milk has been able to complement the Elida’s flavour quite well. In other coffees the almond simply presents as a different aftertaste. Although, I’m still taste testing to figure out whether the brand of almond milk also affects the taste. Will follow-up on that at a later date.
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