Jaime Alvarez, Colombia — May 2022
MAY SUBSCRIPTIONJaime Alvarez — ColombiaWe have a pretty different coffee for you this month. It is a fresh release and won't be around long. Each year we decide to buy a coffee that is more experimental in its processing. The main reason for this is to plunge into a different spectrum of flavour, but also to see a wildly differing coffee in our roaster and how it reacts to heat inputs.We find that processing can take over the inherent varietal/terroir flavour profile and steer the coffee toward a different category of flavours. This leads the coffee away from classically standard quality attributes. Whether this is good or bad, it is for you as the drinker to decide. It is a...