Thor - Medium Roast

This Maracaturra offering showed delectable sweetness like creme brûlée, walnuts candied with brown sugar, creamy caramels, dulce de leche, and a lactic aspect that came off like caramel flan. The top notes peek through in the cooling cup, and included the aforementioned green grape/tartaric aspect, which played off tannic black tea notes, and an aromatic hint of powdered ginger. My Full City roast produced weighty chocolate roast flavors, still accented by just a hint of baked apple.

The Maracaturra cultivar is a large bean variety of coffee, a cross between Caturra and the so-called "Elephant Bean", Maragogype. It seems to be grown mostly in Nicaragua. This coffee is wet processed, which means that the whole cherry is mechanically separated from the coffee seed, and then the sticky layer of mucilage is broken down and removed using overnight wet fermentation.