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Cupping notes:
Half way between medium and dark is where this coffee seems to find its place. Hints of blackberry and floral notes, caramel sweetness, and slight tobacco. Fairly normal tasting cup, but it's better than you would think for an origin not known for specialty coffee. Roasting it into medium dark makes it a little boring, but its a nice cup of Joe. Roasting it into 2nd cracks (Dark-medium) it picks up a smoky and mineral note that reminds us of a Zimbabwe coffee -- pretty decent complexity and sweetness at this roast level.
*This coffee is a one time deal. Coffee is not normally sourced from here, so its a bit of a novelty. Enjoy :)
Farming notes:
Cameroon is on the West side of Africa which has almost no specialty coffee being grown. There's some robusta farms, and there are lots of other commodity crops like sugarcane. Cameroon has a mountain (Mt. Oku) with the altitude and soil appropriate for specialty coffee, and so on the slopes of Mt. Oku (the Oku Valley), a few arabica coffee farms exist. This one also grows oranges and bananas, and those trees shade the coffee, and the farmer is part of the Grassfield Cooperative.
Recommended Roast: Medium to Dark
Good For: Pour Over, Full Immersion, and Blends
Cupping notes:
Half way between medium and dark is where this coffee seems to find its place. Hints of blackberry and floral notes, caramel sweetness, and slight tobacco. Fairly normal tasting cup, but it's better than you would think for an origin not known for specialty coffee. Roasting it into medium dark makes it a little boring, but its a nice cup of Joe. Roasting it into 2nd cracks (Dark-medium) it picks up a smoky and mineral note that reminds us of a Zimbabwe coffee -- pretty decent complexity and sweetness at this roast level.
*This coffee is a one time deal. Coffee is not normally sourced from here, so its a bit of a novelty. Enjoy :)
Farming notes:
Cameroon is on the West side of Africa which has almost no specialty coffee being grown. There's some robusta farms, and there are lots of other commodity crops like sugarcane. Cameroon has a mountain (Mt. Oku) with the altitude and soil appropriate for specialty coffee, and so on the slopes of Mt. Oku (the Oku Valley), a few arabica coffee farms exist. This one also grows oranges and bananas, and those trees shade the coffee, and the farmer is part of the Grassfield Cooperative.
Recommended Roast: Medium to Dark
Good For: Pour Over, Full Immersion, and Blends