Sideyard Coffee: January 27 - West Java Blue 🇮🇩

Hello Sideyard Friends,

This week's coffee is a wet-hulled process coffee from West Java. It gets its blue moniker simply due to the fact that the green coffee beans have a unique ghostly blue coloring. Wet-hulled coffee involves a multi step fermentation process that was developed to move coffee quickly from harvest to export in an extremely wet climate that makes certain types of coffee processing extremely difficult. As a rule of thumb, the wet-hulled process produces lower palate-acidity and flavors that are often described as earthy, mossy, and woodsy. In short, it's very different from last week's dry process Ethiopia (floral/bright/fruity)! 

I'm tasting the characteristic earthiness that one expects in the form of tobacco, cedar, and a touch of something spicy. It's brooding and enigmatic in a way that keeps me guessing and coming back. 

For the sake of newer subscribers and anyone that missed it the first time around, I'm re-upping one of my all time favorite origin track recommendations–the raucous 1970s psych/funk rock Koes Plus by Mobil Tua. Turn it up, as they say.   

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Cheers,

Ryan