Once again Blendin Coffee Club has removed their web page for this coffee so I can’t link to it, although the promo on Instagram remains up. I don’t know why they scrub web pages and wish they didn’t.

Anyway, this is a naturally-processed Chakira, which is a new coffee variety, from Kotowa Farms in Panama. It cost $25 for 100 grams, no doubt priced that cheaply ($6.25 a cup) since no one has ever tried the Chakira variety.

Here’s the card for the coffee, which is useful since the web page at Blendin has disappeared.

Soft grind on the beans … I always use 25 Clix with the Comandante C40.

Do you even sift, bro?

20 grams of perfectly consistent grind. It is essential that you set aside fines (anything sub-800 microns) when making pour-over.

Lovely color in the hand-blown Chemex (pronounced “sha-may”). 50g of 200 degree fahrenheit water to bloom, 100g more on second pour, 150g more on third and final pour.

Yielding a perfect 10 ounce cup of coffee.

This was interesting … a more coffee-forward coffee, especially since I’m mostly drinking Geishas of late. It wasn’t bad, it was different. Glad I experienced it.