Coffee Island. Coffee has become a science. We go around the world to discover the best coffee varieties and offer them to fans of Coffee Island. In these travels we discover new people, cultures but the same passion we have for our favorite product, coffee! Coffee as it should be!
Not bitter and lacking taste and flavor. A coffee that is sweet, complicated and tasty. One that needs to take its time to be made. A product that is not industrialized so that it has the same exact taste each time but a product of farming that can hold pleasant surprises.
Here at Coffee Island we take samples, make countess cupping and sensorial analysis, so that we can evaluate raw coffee beans and search for the best way of roasting so that we can show off each coffees best tastes. The equipment we use and the training our employees go through under SCAE Barista standards complete he cycle of quality coffee Coffee Island wants to offer its customers.
On the other side of the planet there are people who take great care for the raw beans that will reach our hands. They give great gravity to the sustainability of the land they have and care deeply for the workers that are part of their farms and local communities. They use innovative methods of farming, gathering and processing the fruit from the coffee trees so that they can provide the roasters the best possible product for roasting.
They separate their lands to small lots and in each apply different methods so they can get the best possible flavor results. These lots yield anywhere form 1-30 bags of 69 kg of raw coffee bean. These are limited quantities with unique tastes that are hard to remake. Each time therefore is new and different.
Throughout travels we created a project with one basic objective. To make specialty coffee available to all. To make what is premium, common.
This project is called MicroFarm Project and it involves making small quantities of limited edition coffee available. This coffee comes from small farms all over the world. The quantities will be available at Espresso Bars at Coffee Island coffee roasters (espresso or filter Hario V60) or at home.
The quantities are going to be sufficient for 3-4 months. They will be a global exclusive and will be available only at Coffee Island coffee roasters. Information on the farm, variety, processing, certification, coffee roasting and flavor will be available.
After their success and our first specialty coffee Nicaragua Santa Maria de Lourdes was no longer available we followed up with another specialty coffee Rwanda Gashonga Red Bourbon from the Ruzisi area west of Rwamda. Up to today the Ethiopia Yukro, El Salvador Vista Hermosa and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Natural have been added to our successful Microfarm Project.
And the journey in taste continues… stay tuned!
