When Coffee Tastes Like Hay…

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Last week we had a roasting party at my friends Toby and Laurie’s house.
The first batch of 2008 Panama estate coffee was brewed in the french press, cups passed along…the ritual began – Laurie was the first to say what we were all thinking…”Smells like grass.” Other comments followed fast – “Tastes sorta grassy.” And “This would be better as a tea…” Oops.
There are two main reasons coffee might smell or taste like an alfalfa field. Here are the definitions that cover ‘grassy’ when used to describe coffee:
grassy: A odor taint giving the coffee beans a distinct herbal character similar to freshly mown alfalfa combined with the astringency of green grass. Created by the prominence of nitrogen compounds in the green beans while the cherries are maturing. Typical taste of unripe beans and of certain freshly harvested coffee batches, corresponding to the beginning of the harvest.

green: A taste taint giving the coffee brew an herbal character due to an incomplete development of the sugar carbon compounds in the roasting process. Results from insufficient heat during too short a period. A taste associated with that of a raw fresh vegetable leaf, often found in early new-crop coffees. Read more

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January 31, 2009 | Filed Under Caffeinated, Coffee Beans, Coffee Brewing, Coffee Cats, Coffee Friends, Coffee Roasting, coffee cup | 1 Comment 

Japanese Investors Are Buying Our Panamanian Estate Coffee

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After a tour of several farms in Boquete, Japanese businessmen acquired 600 quintals of coffee.
Laestrella.com.pa reports: “The representatives of the Japanese stores and roasters that visited the Boquete area for three days, expressed their admiration for the dedication and care with which the Panamanians cultivate and process the coffee. After visiting the plantations and greenhouses, they saw the various ways of drying, depulping and keeping the level of freshness in the grain, at the following farms: Casa Ruiz, Finca Beneficio, Finca Peterson, all producers of Keisha Coffee, which won various international prizes, in addition to the Callejon Seco Farm.”
[read original post from laestrella.com.pa in Spanish]

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January 28, 2009 | Filed Under Coffee Business, Coffee Culture, Coffee Industry, Panama Coffee | Leave a Comment 

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