Kenya AA WP Decaf

Sweet Maria's Coffee

The secret of really good decafs is a properly processed coffee that begins with a really good, high quality green coffee lot. This is a Kenya AA euro-preparation (that means it has gone through colormetric and several passes of hand sorting, along with the usual machine sorting size and density methods) lot...not an auction lot but a coffee that was cupped for quality, then sent to the decaffeinator. I cupped all these Kenya lots and this was one of the AA's that out-cupped a lot of the discrete farm-specific auction coffees this year. (Yes, there were great auction lots, but there was an undue amount of really mediocre ones too.) This cup is aromatic, lightly bodied and spry, with a good top-end brightness to the cup, and malty-caramelly-mollasses mid-tones that develop in the roast. If you don't overroast stop it right at or right before 2nd crack) it's really a zippy cup, although I admit it does not have a heavy mouthfeel. But I really liked this coffee because, given the flavor character, it would taste quite wrong if it DID have a ton of body! If you like the aromatic and vividly flavored Ethiopian decafs we have (and you really should try those) then this coffee will also be up your alley.

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