panama coffee
by pirates of coffee · mississauga, canada
you'll taste stone fruit before peach. this is lamastus elida geisha: panama washed drd, a honey panama from pirates of coffee.
it carries stone fruit and peach up front, with jasmine and broader floral tones running through it, and a tea-like character, think black tea, that settles into honey and honeycomb sweetness.
it is a typica varietal grown in boquete, panama, by lamastus elida, and processed using the honey method, where some fruit mucilage is left on the bean during drying to add sweetness and body.
filter brewing, pour over or aeropress, suits the delicate floral and fruit notes best, and keeping your water temperature between 88 and 92 celsius will help avoid flattening those layers.
the parking lot off davand drive doesn't look like much, but inside pirates of coffee, something special happens. beans crack in small batches while the espresso machine hisses through another cortado. this is what happens when someone actually cares about coffee instead of just selling it. you can taste the difference immediately. that first sip carries weight, complexity that chain stores gave up chasing years ago. regulars know this. they drive across mississauga because consistency here means something different than everywhere else. the 546 google reviews averaging 4.9 stars tell the real story. people don't rave about adequate coffee. they talk about the barista who remembers their order, beans roasted days not weeks ago, cups that make monday mornings bearable. independent roasters like this survive because they refuse to compromise. every shot pulled here matters. every bag sold represents hours of careful roasting, testing, adjusting. that's rare these days.
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