Mind = Blown

OG best seller is back again and this time it's a light roast! The good folks at Mooleh Manay wanted to improve upon last season's outcome by adding a little more complexity without losing on the sweetness and not adding much funk. They have made small tweaks to their processing and it has worked wonders in the cup! The start of the process is by picking ripe arabica cherries(mix of Sln6, Sln 9 and Chandragiri) and using a syphon tank to remove immature cherries that float. The sunken cherries are then pre dried. This is a very important step as it reduces the moisture, which helps achieve better control in the fermentation. This goes a long way to prevent any off flavours. The pre-dried cherries are then put in sealed barrels , inoculated with a custom yeast culture and a controlled carbonic maceration enviornment is created. The fermentation lasts for 60 hours. The cherries are then dried in a poly house for 10 days, where they are raked constantly to ensure even drying. This intricate process has resulted in a coffee that is a revelation! We tried a lot of different roasts for this coffee and ultimately settled on a light roast that amps up the acidity and brings the complexity front and centre. We taste very prominent banana and raspberry in the acidity that is balanced really well with a vanilla-eque sweetness. This coffee is a real delight on a manual brew(we prefer a v60) with really vibrant acidity, great sweetness and next to no bitterness even when extraction is pushed. The coffee really opens up 12 days post roast date for manual brews and makes for a fruit jam of an espresso 20 days post roast date. This coffee is not be missed on any count!