Costa Rica is Back!
We are excited to introduce a new coffee to our lineup - a seasonal offering we’re calling Switchback! This Costa Rican coffee will be available for a limited time until the season’s beans are gone.
While not as popular as our espresso blend, Costa Rican coffees always have a strong band of fans. They’re also a big staff favorite, so we were excited to get our hands on another one this harvest season. Costa Rican beans are often loved for their fruity, bright flavor notes. We often find ourselves tasting citrus and the tropical fruits grown in the same area. The climate is relatively mild with lots of rain, and the mountainous regions of the country are known to help beans grow slowly and steadily, developing lots of flavor (this one is grown at 1600 meters + above sea level).
This coffee comes from the same farm as our previous Costa Rica (Finca Cordillera del Fuego in the Tarrazú region) that brought us the unique Thermic processed coffee we loved. This season, Luis Eduardo Campos used the Anaerobic process, which has been growing in popularity among specialty coffee roasters recently. Anaerobic means “without oxygen,” a process where the beans are fermented in tanks with the fruit still attached. As bacteria eats away at the sugars in the coffee cherries, the beans are able to absorb some of the fruit - this leads to a sweet, clean, floral cup of fruity coffee. Read more about the different coffee processes here!
In this coffee, we’re getting those great bright, fruity flavors like Kiwi, Strawberry, Cherry, and Apple, along with some herbal notes - Lemongrass, Hibiscus, Rose, and especially Cinnamon, which comes through during the anaerobic fermentation.
We’ve roasted this coffee on the lighter side to provide you with a clean, well-developed cup that’s free from the burnt taste you may have tasted in other coffees. The pleasant acidity in this leads to some tea-like flavors as well, and creates a flavor profile that might have you saying “is this really coffee?!” with your first sips.
We hope you love it, and we look forward to continue finding unique Costa Rican coffees for you in the future!
