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Product Info
About the Roast
Roast will be sent out within a week of roasting. Next roast is the coming weekend (cut off on Friday 6pm) and will be sent out the following week's Monday. *Check our homepage for exact next roast date!
If you had tasted the previous year's beans from this same estate, you would not believe they were the same. Yet, such is something in a plant that is living and breathing a different climate and air every year! In a surprisingly affectionate way you'd recognise it from it's familiar taste of strawberry - this time crisp, sweet, with less fermented notes (read: the previously noted wine). The Chiliarch beans this year is also slightly denser, often viewed by industry as "better". This can be seen with a difference in grind size and extraction at a coarser (or normal) grind setting, compared to the last year's crop that required a finer grind setting. Each has its unique beauty, but we definitely applaud this year's crop for having higher clarity and a cleaner cup.
Read more about it here.
We found that for these beans, the optimal filter / espresso roast profiles are very similar, and so we created this profile which can be brewed both ways and still tastes great!
Please note that the 500g / 1kg packaging comes in a white resealable valved bag.
Roasted for: Filter & Espresso
Body: Medium
Roast level: Light-Medium
Tasting notes: Strawberry, Blackberry, Pine Nuts, Roasted Almonds, Pink Florals.About the beans
Farmer: Ou Yang
Region: Pu’ er Jiangcheng
Varietal: Catimor
Process: Natural
Altitude: 900 - 1300 maslCherries are picked at the perfect point of ripeness. They are put to dry on raised covered beds for about three weeks to allow the seed to soak all the natural sugars in its cherry. This fermentation process draws out wildly rich flavours and aromas ranging from lychee to a strawberry jam in the beans.
These beans have been very well received among the roasters in London, South Korea, Canada, and Singapore and have won awards at the Australian International Coffee Awards in 2020 and 2022. These beans have been showcased on the coffee menus of Square Mile Coffee Roasters, London, IndoChina Coffee, London, Kiss the Hippo, London, and locally, Foreword Coffee Roaster, Singapore.
About the Farmer
David Ouyang runs the Chiliarch Coffee Estate in southern Yunnan and this is the beans they call "Ou Yang", named after the farmer himself. Ou Yang sees coffee farming and the prices he can access by producing high-quality beans as a way for him to help lift the members of the local hill tribes he works with out of poverty.
CatimorThe arabica in Yunnan is mainly of the Catimor variety – a hybrid of C. Arabica and C. Canephora that makes it more disease resistant and helped it establish itself in a new environment. With so much work going into breeding better and better Catimor strains, they now have brighter and fruitier acidity with woody and nutty notes.