![]() What few know, and that which we honor, and remember today, is that it was Keble Munn’s successful fight for the Jamaica Blue Mountain district recognition that became the knowing model for all these later specialty coffee successes. We are the smaller for his passing as his personal energy, love of coffee, and love of coffee farmers energized a singular achievement. In the generation before the phrase “Specialty Coffee” was coined, and prior to the acknowledgement of Price Peterson’s La Esmeralda, and William McAlpin’s La Minita, there was Keble Munn’s Mavis Bank Blue Mountain Coffee of Jamaica. Since the earliest days of coffee commerce there have been great coffee districts, great farms, and great farmers folks who have stood up and stood out for the quality of their product. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.We recognize the Kona district of Hawaii, the Antigua district of Guatemala, and most recently Yirgacheffe, Harrar, and Sidamo in Ethiopia as special coffee production areas producing beans of high quality, and unique characteristics. Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. It is only after you have come face to face with the robusta godhead that you truly understand that caffeine is a drug.įor more information or to sign up for a Specialty Robusta Tour subscription, visit Paradise Coffee Roaster’s official website. You may think you know what “2x the caffeine” means, but you don’t truly get it until you’re vibrating at a whole new wavelength after subbing out your daily Arabica for robusta. ![]() But be forewarned, the caffeine content in robusta is no joke. It’s a great way to discover something new in the world of specialty coffee, from origins that you may not necessarily be as familiar with. The Specialty Robusta tour subscription costs $25 per 12oz delivery and can be scheduled to recur anywhere between one- and eight-week cycles. Produced in the Santa Elena Province by Denise Bustamante, the lactic acid anaerobically fermented, natural processed robusta has notes of creamy vanilla, coconut, mulled wine, and oak. For their first offering, Paradise is featuring a robusta grown on Hacienda Legrand in Ecuador. Each month, they will highlight a different specialty-grade robusta from around the world, including producing countries like Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, and India. ![]() So to highlight some of their more unheralded offerings, Paradise has created the Specialty Robusta Tour subscription. ![]() Along with coffees from more popular producing countries like Colombia-roasting many high-end varieties like Gesha, Pink Bourbon, and Wush Wush-Paradise trades in the road less traveled, at least for Arabica drinkers, with coffee from Yemen, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, even a little Jamaica Blue Mountain, and yes, Kona. It’s from Paradise Coffee Roasters and it is being touted as the “first specialty robusta subscription.”īased in Hilo, Hawaii, Paradise Coffee has been in the business for over 20 years roasting exceptional-and exceptionally diverse-coffees from around the globe. We’ve seen aerobic fermented robustas, robustas used in the US Barista Championships, World Coffee Research even recently published a robusta variety catalog, and now there’s a robusta-only coffee subscription. Long the fodder for cost-conscious blending and caffeine boosting, robusta is now receiving the same similar levels of attentiveness in producing more associated with Arabica, and it is creating specialty-grade and very tasty results. ![]() canephora is emerging from the shadow of its coffee species counterpart in Arabica and gathering a bit of momentum in specialty coffee circles. The Robustaissance is officially upon us. ![]()
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