Our family tradition is to drink
Jamaican Blue Mountain on Christmas morning. As my kids have gotten older (much older than the cute nephew and niece of mine pictured here), they don't get up as early on Christmas Day. They're not at the age yet to drink coffee with us, but the later start means that I get to slowly wake up while sipping great coffee. The slow start is one of my favorite Christmas Day habits.
This week we are featuring our
Colombia Cauca El Tambo AA, and you can try a cup with the code below. It's grown by a group of twelve farmers, each with their own micro-mill so that they can carefully process the coffee. They then work with
Banexport to bring this traceable community product to the international market. Banexport matched them for their meticulous processing and beautiful flavors in the cup. Roasted, this is creamy and smooth with walnut tones.
I also want to tell you about this extraordinary
Panama Howling Monkey Natural Geisha this week. Geisha is unique varietal of arabica, originally brought to the New World from Ethiopia. It’s a delicate bean, hard to grow, but completely rewarding in terms of exquisite flavor. Panama Geisha has won many cupping awards, and is one of the world’s most exclusive and expensive coffees.
This
Panama Geisha comes from the famous Boquete region, high in the mountains near the Volcan Baru National Park, where over 550 species of birds and other animals live. Hacienda Bajo Mono is owned by the de Dianous family, and is uniquely located in the Bajo Mono valley, a microclimate perfect for coffee with natural springs, volcanic soil, and the Bajareque mist. From there you can hear the monkeys howling, one of the world's loudest animals.
The beans are carefully hand-picked when ripe, and then expertly dried on raised beds for up to 20 days. This is a full natural process, which leaves the coffee with intense fruit flavors. We’ve roasted this light, and the flavors dance in your mouth. You taste meyer lemon and honeydew melon first, and then it finishes with dried plum and apricot tones. It has a depth and body that helps the flavors to linger as you swallow. You can sample some this week with $5 off per pound.
In other news, we are open every Friday night for Cornish Christmas, so you can find us here until 9 pm tonight. And if you love this community like we do, go check out all the Nevada County love on the
Outside Inn blog. Erin has put together another
epic giveaway, and this time she's done TEN baskets of goodies from local merchants. We live in such an amazing community that supports each other like this. Enjoy your weekend, and drink good coffee. Cheers!
--Holly Fike
