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 On the Porch
When you subscribe for Deft Coffee Roasters delivery, splendid coffees from around your world are master roasted and biked to your door. I purchase small quantities of exceptional seasonal coffees for their inherent uniqueness, choosing to support growers who follow sustainable, ethical farming and employment practices. Each Delivery will be a rotating selection from these coffees. Roughly every month, I will send out an email with new coffee descriptions, and anything else of interest.
Here’s how it works.
Deft Coffee Delivery Subscriptions are available for every or every other week. Just fill out and email this form to coffee@deftcoffee.com or print it and mail it to the roastery (address listed on order form). My roast schedule is every Sunday, and we ship and deliver on Mondays. Local subscribers within a 5 mile radius of our roastery receive free bike delivery directly to your home or office. Home delivery subscribers also get a reclaimed wood box to keep your coffee safe until you get home (shown at left). Payment can be made by cash or checks made payable to Deft Coffee Roasters. Look forward to new additions to this list in the next couple weeks.
These are the current coffees for delivery:
Daterra Farms – Espresso Reserve from Minas Gerais, Brazil.
From the Cerrado region in Minas Gerais, Brazil comes a wonderfully complex Brazilian coffee. Daterra has long been on the forefront of producer technology, but that isn’t why I am so fond of their coffees. It’s the flavor. A rich, full-bodied chocolate & cocao base that mingles with deeply fruited layers of raisin and black cherry delivers an extraordinarily balanced, structured cup with a long, sweet finish. This particular coffee is a blend of three varietals, grown and selected from different plots on the farms, and although it has espresso in the name, it is equally suited for press and drip brewing. And to top it all off, this coffee is certified by Utz Kapeh & The Rainforest Alliance.
La Berlina Estate (Typica varietal) from Boquete, Panama.
Grown on old Typica coffee trees at around 1900 meters, this coffee has a softer touch than the Daterra Espresso Reserve. Medium bodied, with caramel – more than sugar – that comes through as the cup cools. First whiff is sweet, fruity with a nicely balanced toffee, cocao background to it. As a varietal, this doesn’t have the heavier fruit (blueberry, huckleberry) that a typica coffee from Harrar or Sidamo might – it’s softer, lighter than that. Subtly stretched out. There is the influence of climate and the growers particular skill showing through – giving it a character that is completely enjoyable early early in the morning, or mid-afternoon as an iced-vietnamese coffee.
Water-processed Decaf from Buramera, Butare, Rwanda.
A medium bodied, classically structured heirloom varietal. Floral and citrus hints linger above a balanced base.
Dave Ewald
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