Regina - A Custom Blend

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet
• Comforting
• Funky

In collaboration with our good friends at Layers (Ashley & Avery), we decided to pull our taste buds together and develop a blendBlendCoffees from multiple origins roasted or mixed together for a consistent, balanced profile year-round — the traditional backbone of espresso menus. that celebrates small business, the journey they are on and their memory that started it all, the food truck Regina. Words from Ashley & Avery: "Regina was our food truck, she was the engine that took us to where we needed to go every day. In honor of Regina, may this coffee be your engine." When visiting Seattle, make sure to visit their shop Layers in Greenlake ! Tasting NotesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee.: Complex in character, praline, cocoa with a hint of fruit. Origins: Kayon Mountain - Guji Ethiopia NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. - HeirloomHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. varieties Samamabaia - Santo Antonio Estates, Brazil Sundried/ Natural - Yellow Catucai Friends of Tolima - Tolima, Colombia WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. - CastilloCastilloColombia's leaf-rust-resistant variety, bred by Cenicafé from Caturra and Timor hybrid. Long dismissed by purists, it now wins competitions when grown and processed well., CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America., Colombia