- Roasted on 3/7/2019 to a Full City roast level, also known as the darker end of a medium roast
- Beans used: Sweet Maria's Sumatra Giling Basah Kerinci
Link is no longer active, but here are cupping notes from Sweet Maria's:
The dry fragrance is intense to say the least, and rustic sweet smells of brown rice syrup, herbal accents, and earth tones come out in the dry ground coffee at a wide roast range. Aromatically, there's a peat-like note that comes through in the wet grounds, and also marks the aroma in the brewed coffee. It adds an earthy tone to the cup flavors that has a sort of sweetness like fresh compost, not to be confused with "dirty"! Really, it's much more like the aftertaste of a good scotch, or the smell of an old leather bound book.
There is a nice interplay between sweet and bittering flavors at City+ like molasses and palm sugars mixed with raw cacao nibs and carob, and the finish is marked by a Yerba Mate note.
Full City has much more of a chocolate bittersweet core, and will make a rustic-toned single origin espresso, or add body and bittersweetness to an espresso blend.
