Gold

Origin

• 🇧🇷 Brazil

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  30
• Clean
  20
• Funky
  20

Sweet caramel, dense chocolate, spice box and dried fruit with abundant crema and syrupy smooth bodyBodyThe weight and texture of coffee in the mouth, from tea-like and delicate to syrupy and heavy. Driven by process, roast, variety, and brew method.. We carefully roast and blendBlendCoffees from multiple origins roasted or mixed together for a consistent, balanced profile year-round — the traditional backbone of espresso menus. this coffee to bring out the finest qualities in espresso coffee. When properly extracted the Barrington Gold yields unctuous crema and a complex lineup of bold flavors followed by a long, smooth finish. To attain this perfection, we begin by sourcing coffees that are naturally very low in acidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it. and extraordinarily high in body. Our proprietary blend includes aged and conditioned coffees from Southeast Asia and South America. Though we are mindful not to fully disclose the components of this blend, there are some unique aspects about the Gold that we would like to share with you. Critical components in the Gold include carefully conditioned monsooned coffees from Southeast Asia. Monsooned coffees are green coffees that have been allowed to absorb the moisture of the monsoon winds after picking. The seeds expand as they absorb the moisture, the cells rupture and then they are dried for export. Numerous chemical compounds in the seeds are altered in the process, but the overall effect is a profound decrease in the coffees acidity. This blend also includes coffees that are part of our Landed Aging Program™ whereby we further soften the green coffees acidity through storage in a relative humidity controlled environment. The conditioning and aging processes we employ are risky, labor intensive and very costly. Yet they are central to the identity of the Gold. When the otherwise delicate flavors of these coffees are concentrated through the high pressure extraction of an espresso machine, the qualities are magnified to an essential level. The Gold is an espresso blend that we created in the mid 1990’s. Year in and year out, the aroma and flavor profile remain true to the original. If anything about the Gold has changed over the past two decades, it would be a slightly refined focus that we have been able to attain through years of fastidious