PEABERRY | Kerkeicoondah | Medium Roast

What is Peaberry Coffee?
Typically the coffee fruit (cherry) contains two seeds that develop flat against each other like two halves of a peanut. This is what we know as "coffee beans".
In about 5% of the cherries only one of the two seeds is fertilized and develops in the shape of a pea without anything to flatten it. This oval coffee bean is known as "peaberry".
Peaberry coffee beans are usually sold in bulk or commodity coffee without being separated. We find these beans so interesting and full of rich, complex flavors that we requested a bag for this special offering.
Peaberry beans are hand-sorted during the harvest process and taste completely different from their twin counterparts of the same plant.  Hope you enjoy it as much as we do! 

Tasting Notes:
This is a rich and complex coffee layered with flavor notes of cherry vanilla and baker's chocolate. Medium bodied with a velvety mouthfeel, this coffee is quite tasty any way you brew it. Great for espresso as well as filter coffee. 

Coffee Origins:
Kerkeicoondah Estate is located in the Chikmagalur district, within the state of Karnataka, India. One of the two Arabica coffee plantations owned by the Mammen family, the estate has been managed by the family for three generations. The coffee is shade-grown and inter-cropped with pepper, cocoa, and cardamom. We also source the S795 variety Plantation-AB coffee from this farm - see our Kerkeicoondah Single Estate offering. 

Producer: Joseph Mammen
Region: Baba Budangiri Mountains, Chikmagalur, Karnataka, India
Altitude: 3,940 feet / 1,200 meters
Variety: S795
Process: Fully washed, dried in the sun, hand sorted