Decaf Organic Mexico - Green

$ 7.85

Country: Mexico
Region: Chiapas
Varietal: Bourbon, Caturra, Typica
Farm: Various
Process: Swiss Water Processed
Altitude: 1500 Meters
Grade: HG
Certification: Direct Trade, Organic
Recommended Roast: Full City to Full City+
Cupping: Floral, Sweet, Citrus

Description: This bean goes through a Swiss Water® Process which uses water from the pristine environment of the coast mountains of British Columbia, Canada to gently remove the caffeine until the coffee beans are 99.9% caffeine-free, while maintaining the bean’s distinctive origin and flavor characteristics. It’s decaffeinated coffee without compromise. Coffee decaffeinated using the environment-friendly Swiss Water® Process undergoes regular caffeine level audits to ensure compliance to 99.9% caffeine-free.

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Balanced and rounded flavor - be sure to sort before roasting!

Flavor-wise, this decaf is sweet like malted milk balls with some surprising brightness on the finish. Fairly light in body but that's to be expected. Also roasts pretty easily, once you get the hang of it (this was my first decaf). Took off a star because the prep/grading on this lot was... not great. Lots of shells/husks, broken beans and fragments, and split beans that needed to be sorted out before roasting. Took out about 9 grams of these types from a 125 gram batch I'd measured out. Maybe that's expected for decaf? Kind of a pain either way - maybe I just got the dregs at the bottom of the sack.