The Future Mai Tai - Instant Coffee

Origin

• 🇨🇴 Colombia· Huila
• 🇨🇷 Costa Rica· Tarrazú

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  60
• Funky
  50
• Bright
  30
• Clean
  20

SPECIALTY INSTANT COFFEE ORIGIN | Colombia & Costa Rica NOTES | Jamaican rum, strawberry banana smoothies, pineapple, spices We took some of our favorite single originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. coffees and made them into instant coffee! We put as much care into our instant coffee as we do our roasting and produce everything in house. Take our instant and add hot water for instant coffee or even milk for an instant latte. This item comes with 6 pouches that make 1 - 8oz cup each Description of Coffee | HOW WE GOT HERE | It’s no secret that we love co-fermentedCo-fermentationCoffee fermented together with added fruit, yeast, or spices, which imprint their flavor on the bean. Loud, candy-like cups; purists debate whether it still 'tastes like coffee'. coffees here at Black & White. We also love taking inspiration from our favorite candies, desserts, and cocktails to create (or re-create) new and interesting flavor profiles in caffeinated form. With warmer weather on the not-so-distant horizon, our minds have been drifting to the latter—tropical bevys, good hangs, and teeny, tiny umbrellas. Speaking of teeny, tiny umbrellas… they were a hot commodity following the imminent fall of Prohibition. Less than a year after the repeal of America’s least popular Amendment, Donn Beach opened Don the Beachcomber’s in Los Angeles in 1934, and Victor Bergeron followed with the establishment that would become known as Trader Vic’s in 1936. Together, these two men paved the way for the rise of tiki bar culture in the US, mixing Caribbean-style rum drinks with loosely Polynesian decor to craft the perfect cocktail of exotic escapism for which Americans at the time were desperately searching. Donn and Victor, however, were not exactly chummy. Where Trader Vic claimed to have been “inspired by” Donn, Donn accused Victor of stealing his ideas outright. At the center of their decades-long rivalry sat the Mai Tai. Invented by Trader Vic in 1944 and named after a Tahitian colloquialism that roughly translates to “awesome,” the Mai Tai slowly rose to popularity for its unique balance of strength and sweetness, a feat not often accomplished in other tiki cocktail creations. Donn insisted that Victor had trie