Freshly Knitted Bicycle – Sample
CARBON NEUTRAL HIGH SCORING SPECIALITY COFFEE
Crafted with daytimes in mind, this coffee is chocolatey and smooth with a subtle apple and cherry acidity. Try a 125g sample in the grind of your choice today.
Freshly roasted with fast delivery.
What an interesting name!
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Tastes Like
Milk chocolate & a silky texture are present throughout, with a warming sweetness of caramel. Find a little apple & cherry in the acidity, too. Yum!
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How to Brew
While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are an espresso machine, Aeropress & moka pot.
Check out our brew guides for caking coffee too.
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Behind the Scenes
Back to us for its second year, we love this coffee from Jabiru. Grown by smallholders with around one hectare of land each, some of Guatemala’s best coffees come from this area of Huehuetenango. Why?
The north-facing aspect of the mountains allows the sun to take its time reaching the growing plots, which helps create a sweeter, rounder & fuller tasting coffee in the cup.
Coffee from Jabiru is fully processed by the smaller holders growing the crop. It is always washed and then sundried as the smallholders don’t have access to mechanical dryers. However, due to the mountain surroundings, they also don’t have that much flat area available. Every option is used, including rooftops and patio areas. The coffee is also turned regularly to ensure that there is no overfermentation.
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What Does the Score Mean?
The process of ‘cupping’ is used to give a coffee its quality score. We only source and roast speciality coffee, and for a coffee to be given this title, it must first receive a score of 80 or above. If it doesn’t get the score, it doesn’t get the name. We have a page all about coffee cupping if you want to find out more.
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Roasting
During the coffee roasting process, we never ‘over roast’ our coffee. Roasting is the time for us to show off the natural flavours and aromas in our coffees. If we were to roast a coffee too dark, these flavours and aromas would be lost and would be replaced with bitter and burnt tastes. We won’t ever need to hide any of the flavours from our coffees as they are all of such high quality to start with. As a result of this, all our coffees have a natural sweetness, ready and waiting to be enjoyed.
All our coffees are very different from one another. Some have a more intense flavour, such as a toffee sweetness, while others have lighter, fruity flavours. Coffee farmers and workers do an incredible job of always producing a great product. As a way of saying thank you, we will roast their coffee to its full potential.
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The Nuts and Bolts
Roast Style: Medium
Location: Jabiru
Varietal(s): Caturra, Catuai, Bourbon, Pache
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1500 – 1800 metres above sea level
Country: Guatemala
Certification: Speciality
Score: 84
What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.
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Why buy speciality coffee from us?
By purchasing coffee from us, you’ll be helping coffee farmers and their workers around the globe. We ensure that we pay between 30 and 150% more than the ‘going rate’ for our green beans. This gives the coffee farmers additional funds to invest in better living conditions and an even better harvest next year.
We aim to keep the supply chain as short as possible. This, in turn, means that more of what we pay makes it back to the coffee farmers and their farms.
Keep it up you awesome bunch.
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Where does the name come from?
As part of our carbon-reducing plan, our head roaster, Andy has bought a bike to get to work on.
It’s taken him so long to choose the right colour, he could have knitted it himself!