India + Colombia
Araku Valley + Diego Bermudez
Zippy
$10
Size
113 g (4 oz) specialty whole bean coffee
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Roasted after you order — fresh, dated, never shelf-stale.
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Process- Washed
The story
Our baseline crossed with our most deliberate lot. Araku Valley does what it always does — chocolate, steady, nothing sharp to negotiate — and the Bermudez side brings the cardamom its long fermentation is known for, plus an apple sweetness that keeps the whole thing from getting heavy. Both washed, so the fruit stays clean rather than fermenty. It sits in the middle of the scale on purpose: interesting enough to pay attention to, familiar enough to drink every day without thinking about it.
What we got
Here's what we taste.
This is what the cup reminds us of — you might get something else, and that's the fun of it. Here's where it lands on the wheel.
- ChocolateNutty / Cocoa
- CardamomSpices
- AppleFruity
Why it tastes like this
It starts with the fruit.
Before roasting, before brewing, someone decided how to get the seed out of the cherry. That choice does more to the cup than almost anything after it.
- This coffee
Washed
The fruit is stripped off within hours, and the seed ferments in water before drying bare.
Clean and transparent. You taste the place it grew and the varietal, not the fruit it came in — so acidity reads sharper and the cup is easier to pick apart.
Honey
The skin comes off but the sticky layer underneath stays on through drying.
The middle ground, and the one people guess wrong. Rounder and sweeter than washed, without the fermented edge a natural can take on.
Natural
The whole cherry dries with the seed still inside it, fruit and all, for weeks.
Heavier, sweeter, unmistakably fruity — berries and jam. It's the loudest of the three, and where funk comes from when a coffee tastes wild.
Three ways
The same beans, a different cup.
We buy for versatility, so this isn't a bag that only works one way. Here's what changes when you brew it differently.
Pour-over
Hoffmann V60
Water passes through the bed once and drains away.
The cleanest, most separated cup — acidity reads brightest and individual notes stay distinct. Also the fussiest: grind and pour speed both show up in the taste.
- Grind
- Medium-fine · Comandante ~25 clicks
- Ratio
- 1:16.7
- Time
- ~4 min
Immersion
Hoffmann French Press
Grounds sit in the full volume of water for the whole brew, then get separated at the end.
Heavier body and more blended flavor — notes overlap rather than standing apart. Much harder to get wrong, which is why it's the forgiving one.
- Grind
- Coarse
- Ratio
- 1:16.7
- Time
- ~9 min
Espresso
Espresso (Normale)
Pressure forces a small amount of water through a tightly packed bed in seconds.
Concentrated and syrupy. The same coffee reads sweeter and far more intense, and its sharper edges get louder along with everything else.
- Grind
- Fine
- Ratio
- 1:2
- Time
- 28 sec
Where it's from
A blend across origins.
Freshness
Fresh by design, not by accident.
Small batches, roasted the week you order — never pulled off a warehouse shelf.
Off the cooling tray and into a box within days, so it lands near its peak.
Coffee tastes best 1–4 weeks after roast — we date every bag. Why →
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Flavor and origin marks by OpenMoji, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.