Cats in Capes – Sample

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are a filter, Chemex or cafetiere.

Head over to our brew guides for making coffee for more.

Grown by a member of the Asociación de Cafetaleros La Gran Reserva, this coffee has been grown with quality in mind. With nutrient-rich soil, thanks to dormant volcanoes, paired with ideal temperatures between 14-20 ºC and altitudes of 1,600 meters above sea level, the Tabaconas region has been on a mission to grow more specialty coffees.

Once ripe, the cherries are hand-picked to ensure only the best fruit is taken for processing. Once delivered to the wet mill, the fruit is de-pulped and dry-fermented for 16 hours. After fermentation, the coffee is carefully washed to remove any remaining sticky mucilage, which gives this coffee its clean, bright profile. Finally, the freshly washed beans are laid across drying patios for roughly 15 hours until they reach the optimal moisture content.

Here at Two Chimps, our main coffees stay with us for around 8 – 12 months. Our limited edition coffees however, change more frequently. We source our coffees from small farms, cooperatives and single estates, meaning when a coffee has been harvested, processed and drunk, it is all gone. Our limited edition coffees will change every 3 – 4 months and are a great way of trying new and interesting coffees more frequently. They won’t follow a pattern of particular flavours or characteristics, but we can guarantee they will all be super interesting and tasty!

Every coffee has a score. If it’s below 80 points, the coffee is commodity. If it’s super-delicious, free from defects and scored 80 points or above, it’s speciality coffee!

Speciality coffee is better all round: acidity, balance, mouthfeel, aroma… Speciality coffee ticks all the boxes!

But, watch out. Don’t choose your coffee based purely on the score! A higher score might denote a more experimental coffee, or one with a very interesting lemony flavour, for example. This doesn’t mean you’ll like the flavour more than one that scored a little lower. Go with your gut – you know what you enjoy most!

Our awesome TC coffees all sit in the scrummy 80-90 region. We tend not to go for anything in the high 90s, as scores this high sometimes indicate an exceptionally rare coffee rather than one we think you’ll love! We always keep your cup in mind when selecting our coffee range!

We hand roast all of our coffees to bring out the most from each bean. We keep our roasts lighter too; to avoid any bitter or burnt notes. This way, you get to taste every flavour and characteristic of each coffee that the farmers worked so hard to produce. Lower grades of coffee will play host to undesirable flavours within the beans, resulting in a darker roast to mask these, but leaving a bitter taste. Luckily for you, we don’t need to do this. All of our coffees are smooth and sweet with natural flavours throughout.

Roast Style: Light & fruity

Location: Tabaconas, Cajamarca

Varietal(s): Typica, Caturra, Bourbon

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1600 metres above sea level

Country: Peru

Certification: Speciality

Produced by: The Asociación de Cafetaleros La Gran Reserva,

Score: 86

When you purchase a bag of Two Chimps Coffee, you are supporting the hard-working farmers who grow and harvest these amazing coffees.

We pay between 30 and 150% more for our coffee than the commodity-grade price. This, in turn, means more for the farmers, giving them capital to invest in better living conditions and an even better crop next year.

Keeping the supply chain as short as possible allows more money to make it to the farm and it’s workers. So from the team here at Two Chimps – high five and thank you!

Have you ever thought about why you haven’t spotted any Cats in Capes? Well, it’s because they only wear them when there are bad guys to catch. *Cue batman theme tune*