FRIEDHATS FLAVOUR BOX
Friedhats (Amsterdam)
Inside the Friedhats Flavor Box, you will get:
I don’t know, maybe we’ve opened Pandora’s box. But there’s only one way to find out. In this “keeping it real-box” we bring you the following three coffee’s 100g each:
Wilton Benitez Decaf Washed
El Diviso Sidra Washed
Zarza Pacamara Washed
Cheating is embedded in our nature. Men and Women do it to their partners (not your partner of course), Lance Armstrong did it in the Tour the France (probably with most of the other riders) The United States of America did it with the moon landing (or did that actually happen?). Anyway, cheating is bad of course. But it can also be kind of nice. The moon landing was pretty cool. And Lance Armstrong did put up a pretty amazing show all those years.
When it comes to coffee, it’s hard to say when we started cheating. Some would say the first naturals didn’t taste like “real” coffee anymore. Others would say we’re not cheating at all, and that it’s part of discovering new and exciting flavors..For those new to this, when we say cheating we mean that the farmer added something during the processing-stage to enhance the flavor profile of that coffee.
More on this topic in our ‘artificial-blog-post’; but for now, let me just quickly explain why we made a box with ‘artificial’ coffee in it.
One of the reasons would be because it’s out there. Farmers are doing it, specialty roasters are buying it. And it’s hard to deny the appeal: they are some of the craziest coffee’s we ever had in the short history of specialty coffee. Is this something we should embrace? Or not? This is why we thought we’d give it a whirl. To see what you think. And to see how we feel, about a little authorised cheating (:
Wilton Benitez Decaf Washed
Wilton’s farm (Granja Paraíso 92) shares a name with another farm that is famous for their experiments: El Paraíso. I guess they share more than a name, because just like the coffee’s from El Paraíso, this coffee too tastes like a lot more than just coffee. And what better way to cover up any unpleasant flavors from the decaf process (:
Expect a very perfumy coffee, think of lavender, very herbal and botanical. Notes of lemon grass, orange soda, vanilla and a bit like drinking a artificial cactus juice.
El Diviso Sidra Washed
Another big name in the enhanced coffee world is El Diviso, run by Nestor and Adrian Lasso and yet another washed coffee that’s far sweeter and funkier than you would expect. The variety adds a lot of spice to the flavor-profile.
Making it taste like a gingerbread-man that fell into a glass of passion fruit-juice. Probably because they added Mosto (coffee cherry juice) to the last fermentation stage..
Colombia Zarza Pacamara Washed
This Pacamara is produced by the Gasca brothers.
My three year old daughter really likes this coffee because she thinks it’s a kind of lemonade that she’s normally not allowed to drink.
It’s a washed coffee but somehow still insanely sweet, tropical and funky. Think of winegums, tropical fruit, lots of florals and bubblegum. Mosto was used here as well.