Product Description

Chinga puts on quite a show in the dry fragrance and wet aromatics (actually all along the cup experience!), heavily weighted in layers of fruit, dark tea notes, and incredible sweetness. In our City roast, we noted smells of red fruit punch, fruit leathers, and complex fragrance of spiced loose leaf teas. The sweetness unfolds to something even more intense in the wet aroma, blossoming with raw sugar-backed fruit smells that range from berry types to stone fruit. The cup displays brilliant acidity at a range of roasts, though definitely brightest at the light end of the roast spectrum. It's not overly acidic and citric per se, but like a watered down blackberry juice, or black currant tea, brisk and mouth refreshing. Brightness is at a moderate level for Kenya, and strings together a wide swath of flavor hints like pomegranate, dark sugars, fresh fig, and some chai spice tea. Brewing a slightly darker roast brought out more of a dark berry flavor tone that resonates in the cup, and chocolate covered coconut flavor holds in in the long aftertaste. In my opinion City and City+ roasts is where complexity really shines, yielding a light and bright cup with complex top notes, with underlying sweetness which does well to prop up the cup profile. But Full City is still deliciously fruited, but much more bittersweet at its core. Being an AA outturn, the beans are large, and in this case mean a little deceiving to judge the lightest roasts. I recommend waiting until the first pops have completely finished in order to make sure the interior is roasted. This can be difficult for those using poppers since the time between 1st and 2nd snaps is often short (or practically non-existant!), so pulling when 1st snaps have slowed significantly is a good place to start. This description is from the cupping notes of our coffee importer, Sweet Maria's

Cupping Score: 92.5
Region: Nyeri
Grade: AA
Appearance: .4 d/300gr, 17-19 Screen
Importer: Sweet Maria's


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