Papua New Guinea Kinmuga
Apricot, Coconut, Black Tea
WHY WE LOVE IT: Complex but balanced, and bright yet heavy, this coffee appeals to all coffee lovers looking for a unique taste from a relatively unknown growing region.
REGION: South Waghi Valley, Jiwaka Province
ALTITUDE: 1,530-1,830 m
PROCESSING: Washed and Natural blend
VARIETY: Typica, Bourbon, Arusha, Blue Mountain
This coffee comes to us through new friends at Benchmark Coffee Traders. It was immediately one of our favorites in the lab from the moment it hit the cupping table. The cup presents a lush pineapple upside-down cake sweetness, crisp pear-like acidity, dried stone fruit and apricot notes, and a finish of black tea. It is complex but balanced, and bright yet heavy. We hope you all enjoy it as much as we do.
MORE INFO
The coffee is grown in the Waghi Valley, surrounded by the Anglimp and Kindeng districts. The coffee is processed by pulping and fermenting it down to parchment, then sent near Mount Hagen to the Kagamuga dry mill in Jiwaka Province for further processing. The loamy, sandy soil prominent throughout the Waghi Valley is fed by the Wara Tuman, a river flowing from the elevated volcanic mountains. This contributes to the quality of the soil and helps make the area ideal for growing coffee.
MORE ABOUT BENCHMARK
Every now and again, the opportunity to work with different green coffees and farms presents itself, and we simply cannot pass it up. Benchmark Coffee Traders is one such company. Over the last six years, they have invested in communities throughout Papua New Guinea by funding and supporting several community-focused initiatives. These projects include building seven water tanks for local communities, funding textbooks for schools, opening a library at an elementary school in Simbu Province, supporting women's menstrual health initiatives, and funding community vision clinics. They are doing a lot of meaningful work, and it is great to be able to support them by buying delicious coffee. You can learn more about their work at BenchmarkCoffeeTraders.com.
WE TASTE
Coconut, Apricot, and Black Tea
roast level
Medium-light
fresh roasted
Ships fresh roasted from our St. Louis roastery
CUPS PER BAG SIZE
Freshness Tip: Choose the size that you'll drink within 3 to 4 weeks
12 OUNCE
~18 cups
2 POUND
~48 cups
5 POUND
~121 cups
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We offer three different grind sizes on the vast majority of our coffee offerings: drip, espresso, and French press.
- Use drip grind if you plan on making your coffee using a coffee machine, in a pour over brewer, or if you want to try a newer way to make your trusty French press.
- Use espresso grind if you have an espresso machine at home. This grind will be very fine and will over-extract (in other words, taste bitter and chalky) in other methods.
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Please visit our brewing page here. Coffee brewing is as much an art as it is a science, and it might take a few tries for you to find a sweet-spot that matches your taste preference. We recommend not getting too lost in the "right" way to brew, but instead focus on what you like and try to educate yourself on some best practices. And then just take it from there!
That said, we offer several how-to's for many popular brewers:
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Our blends run from medium-light to dark. You can get a full breakdown of the blends in our Blend Buying Guide.
Core Blends include:
700 is our medium-roast core espresso blend that also tastes great as drip.
Cafe Kaldi has been our house blend since 1994. It contains coffee from Ethiopia that gives it a touch of complexity.
Dancing Goats Blend is a little more developed and gives a bit bolder of a cup.
Highlander Grogg is a fan-favorite flavored coffee.