Impressive acidity plays off long lasting sweetness, brown sugars, aromatic accents, mouth refreshing lemongrass tea, hints of fruit and chamomile. Light roasts make a fantastic pour over, with darker roasts there’s a range of chocolate flavors and impressive level of sweetness, milk chocolate up front fading to punchy dark cocoa powder, and bittering baking chocolate in the finish. City to Full City

Full Cupping Notes
This Parainema variety from Maria Fernandez brings balanced flavors and aromatic accents at a wide range of roasts, with subtle vibrance at the lighter end of the spectrum, and pleasant bittersweet layers when roasted dark. The fragrance of City roasts show a very nice brown sugar scent, with light fruited accents of pear and peach. The wet aroma has a sticky dark caramel note, with dried fruit, and herbal accents of spearmint and sage. Brewing a light roast, the coffee shows impressive brightness right from the get go. It comes off a bit like lemongrass tea when the coffee is hot, brisk and mouth refreshing, and offers the perfect counterpoint to an underpinning of brown sugar notes that holds on through the finish. As it cooled, faint fruit suggestions start to stack up, like fruit compote, apricot, and a sharp citrus accent. The finish also had some more delicate hints, like chamomile flower, and fresh rosemary. Full City roasts had a straight-ahead bittersweetness that pairs well with the creamy body that comes with deeper roast development. There’s a range of chocolate flavors and impressive level of sweetness, milk chocolate up front fading to punchy dark cocoa powder, and bittering baking chocolate in the finish.