Happy May! This will be our last “behind-the-scenes” post for a while, since we’ll again be doing our technical “RE: Summer Series” in June, July, and August this year - which we’re planning to focus on 3 major coffee brewing methods (let us know if there’s a particular one you absolutely don’t want us to miss!).
So, we’d like to share some upcoming changes to our lineup this Summer. We’ll be discontinuing “Rio Coco” (Nicaragua) to make room for a limited-edition, off-the-charts microlot from Colombia… it’ll be called “El Espejo” and it may one of the creamiest, most complex and boldly sweet coffees we’ve ever encountered! It comes from a talented farmer, Marlibia Perdomo, who is a member of ASOPAP in Planadas (yes, the same region as our current “Planadas”!) - her coffee was just so outstanding this year, that they singled it out to submit to local coffee competitions and sell the rest to a small-farmer-championing roaster (lucky us! 😉). You’ll see a “last call” on Rio Coco for the next month or so, and you’ll see the new “El Espejo” launch soon after! (why the need to keep our options limited? we’re in our “slower” summer months, so having too many choices is a bit problematic on the production side… as the more choices we have, the smaller the size of our batches, which makes it challenging to achieve a consistently great roast).
We’ll continue offering Ethereal until September… and “Pacheco” for as long as supplies last (we may have a replacement later in the year if our non-profit partners are able to identify and select another high-scoring microlot from the group of small farmers they’re helping in Honduras right now… it will likely be a beautiful Washed coffee (our current “Pacheco” ended up as an award-winning coffee that was sold to Japanese buyers for record-setting prices this year… we declined the opportunity, as we’re also focused on maintaining our value, and a $40/lb coffee seemed not to offer the value we would want for our Ethos family) - yet we feel so fortunate we were able to be one of the earliest champions of this outstanding farmer who is now inspiring and helping lift others in his community.
We look forward to keep Brewing Greatness with you this Summer, and we and our small team are always grateful for every single chance we get to roast for you,
Jolian & Lisbeth