La Guatuza –
Origin: Esteli, Nicaragua
Producer: The Canales Family
Farm: La Guatuza
Varieties: Caturra
Elevation: 1350 – 1450 meters
Harvest: unknown
Process: uknown
Roaster: Ecco Caffe
Roast Date: December 1, 2009
Cup Date: 12/9/2009
Catadors: Ilenia (4), Devlin (4), Kimmy (4), Jeremy (5), Rebecca (3), Stephanie (2), Lindsay (5)
Average Score: 3.86
Fragrances:
Waxy lipstick, chocolate and blueberry, terribly sweet, savory – like slightly sweet oats, berry, sweet chocolate, fig, floral, cardboard, blueberries, caramel, cocoa, blueberries, orange
Aromas:
Waxy veggies, wet paper filter, sour apple, winy, honey, citrus, butter, wet sponge after wiping up yogurt, tart berry
Break:
Cardboard, cherries, paper
Brightness:
Zingy, low, dull, well, tangy, medium, bright
Flavor:
Veggie lipstick, musty, thrift store apple juice, color pencil, grape leaf, nutty, wet concrete, faint flavor of blueberries, rotting roadkill, sour candy (not sweet), cherry lemon paper – like one of those fruit pies in a cardboard box
Body:
Medium (x4), light (x2), heavy
Aftertaste:
Chalky, brothy, dry, empty, smokey, cat box, more paper
Likes:
Not much – but it wasn’t absolutely disgusting, brightness (?), smells, NO LIKES!, the fragrance, fruitiness (almost) – always a plus in my book!
Dislikes:
Waxy flavorings – chalkiness in texture, this coffee is mehness, tastes, very faint flavor and smells like cardboard, that the fragrance was deceiving, tasting like paper/cardboard certainly isn’t – thumbs down
Descriptions:
A strange cup, this one begins with strong scents of wax and lipstick, and moves on to a zingy veggie broth flavor, still with overlapping notes of wax. Chalky and brothy, the aftertaste doesn’t help this cup improve.
Empty promises of great coffee. Chocolate and blueberry aromas are non-existent in the brew. Only old flavors with no aftertaste…thankfully.
This fragrance is a bit sweet oats to me, its aroma smells like wet paper filter. The brightness is enjoyable but the flavor tastes like a mix of color pencil and grape leaf. Somehow, it doesn’t work out in a beautiful combination. Just odd, medium body too – so filling one’s mouth with oddness.
Sweet smells of berry, fig, chocolate and flowers, an aroma of sour apple, and citrus. Nutty tones mixed if the strange earthiness of wet concrete. Medium body and a smokey aftertaste.
This coffee wants to be great. It wants to be really great. This coffee is “ok”. It’s very light and has a faint flavor of blueberries. A disadvantage is that it smells like cardboard.
I’d prefer never to drink this cup again. It was no where near as delicious as the fragrance anticipated. This cup was dirty, disgusting, and gross.
With notes of blueberries, cherry and lemon, this fruity light-bodied coffee is fair. A papery flavor takes away some of the enjoyment of this cup of coffee. Overall, something – but not something to desire.
Jay’s Notes: