
ecuador coffee
by tandem coffee roasters · portland, usa
you'll taste red apple before jasmine. this is fausto romo honey - ecuador, a honey ecuador from tandem coffee roasters.
the cup leads with red apple acidity and jasmine florals, backed by honey and honeycomb sweetness. it is delicate and fruit-forward rather than bold or chocolatey.
it is grown in pichincha, ecuador, and processed using the honey method, meaning the coffee is dried with some of the fruit mucilage still attached to the bean, which adds sweetness and body to the final cup.
a pour-over or aeropress works well here, as both methods preserve the floral and fruit character of a honey-processed coffee. aim for water around 93c and a medium-fine grind to avoid muting the jasmine and apple notes.
you can taste the deliberateness in every cup tandem puts out. this portland roaster has built something quietly essential on washington avenue, the kind of place where the coffee does the talking. their work with hawaiian estate beans, particularly from the kona belt, shows up in the cup as something almost buttery, warm stone and soft fruit underneath, nothing sharp or aggressive. tandem means two things moving together. here, that's the farmer and the roaster, and you feel that partnership in every sip.
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