Have you ever tried a coffee from Costa Rica? Let’s see how Mr Rubens Gardelli roasted these specialty beans!
Hey coffee lovers, how are you in this Saturday morning? Today here is very gloomy, but this didn’t stop the kids to wake up at 7 AM. I think we have ρ be grateful for this, because I know some kids wake wake up as early as 5 AM and refuse to go back to bed. 🤷🏻
Luckily, the little beasts are relatively calm… for now… and play around the living room with the baloons. So… because of the early morning first came the espresso! (Not photographed…)
And about half an hour after the forst caffeine shot comes the long waited coffee. This week the star comes from Costa Rica… Have you ever tried coffee from Costa Rica?
All we know which countries are the boggest coffee producers. Most of the coffee comes from
Brazil and some better quality beans come from Kenya and Ethiopia. I know the majority of the Cinnamon Coffee community is from Venezuela and they consume local products. This is great! But don’t you have coffee from Brazil and Africa in your supermarkets?
Costa Rica seems like a relatively small coffee producer in this big world market, but all the coffees I have tried from this exotic country were fantastic! There are a lot of specialty coffee roasters that process green beans from there, but I dont think there are many available at the local supermarkets and bigger chains.
I love the way Mr Gardelli roasts his coffee… always light and great looking! My coffee brewing routine is clear. I always grind my beans before brewing. Fresh ground beans taste a lot better, because the contact of coffee and oxygen never does good things… and when you grind, the surface that is exposed to air is significantly bigger. So… always grind fresh!
Aaaand… done!
I can already smell the fruity vibes of these Costa Rica beans. Cannot wait to taste them…
Time for AeroPress! I just love this brewing tool. It is really great for travelling for its compact size and easy cleaning, but I find it quite fun for home brewing too. The process is fast and easy!
My version of aeropress is perfect for brewing single doses of coffee. My wife cannot have another coffee that soon after the forst espresso shot, but I am always ready for more! Give me the coffee!
I just need to wait the two long minutes before I press the coffee out of the Press. Being so light roasted, it appears pretty bright in the jug too. This is related to the last week’s coffee conversation topic - the preferred amount of roastiness of coffee beans.
The aromas of passion fruit and pineapple tropical vibes are amazing. The coffee is very light and smells like heaven… if you understand me. But… when I tried it it seems a bit under extracted. I need to tune the process a little bit when I brew these beans again. Maybe grind them a little bit finer, or use a bit warmer water. We will see…
Anyway, this coffee from Costa Rica is another example of specialty coffee which tastes amazingly good! I will be happy to hear your thoughts on coffee from Costa Rica. Have you ever tried one? Was it good? Will you buy again when you find one?
Wish you a great weekend and a lot of coffee-licious vibes. Bye!
I have actually. Went on an elaborate coffee and chocolate tour in Fortuna with eyes in the back of my head and heavily guarded pockets from snakes.
Sounds great 😁
It was a highlight of that country for us. I was most fascinated by the bananas they had surrounding the coffee. Banana trees attract mosquitos which then pollinate the coffee. I had NO idea those flying nuisances were actually purposeful.
You mentioned CR contributes little coffee to the world. Finest beans on the planet and, you're right, they produce less than 1% of the world's coffee.
Saw a sloth that day too. Seen any of those?
Never seen any sloths! They seem like interesting animals 😁
The fact that mosquitoes pollinate the coffee plants is something that I hear for the first time too! Wow, everyday learn something new about the coffee. Thanks for stopping by!
You proceed the coffee well, I think it was nice have the right time to make our own coffee..
Actually all the coffees that I have tasted from my country Venezuela are unexceptional, I still have many more to try, I hope to finish the chain.
From this beautiful country Costa Rica, I have not had the opportunity, but if I am given the opportunity, I will not hesitate for a second to try it, there are good references of it.
Although we are more traditional, we like what is ours, the autochthonous, but there is always room to try something different from neighboring countries like Brazil and Colombia that have excellent coffee, which are worth trying.
Continue preparing yourself one more cup of coffee and sharing it with us. Greetings
It is good to buy local, from your own country went you produce coffee, and I am really not surprised that the people in Venezuela prefer these products. If my country produced coffee, I would gladly buy from local producers too, if they had good coffee of course. Maybe in would even try to farm my own specialty coffee!
If you have the chance, buy from Costa Rica. You won’t be disappointed, if the coffee seems good of course.
Thanks for stopping by!
We Venezuelans love local coffee, believe me, if I had the opportunity to grow coffee, I would not hesitate to do so.
When I get the chance, I'll try it if I can get it around here. Or I'll have to ask a friend in Costa Rica to send it to me.
Costa Rica has great coffee, I usually go for dark roasts for the flavor. One of the best I've ever had was from Honduras a special batch that Starbucks carried briefly. It was amazing!
I like the AeroPress as well, when I'm not in a hurry on the weekends it's the only way to go! At first I struggled to get the coffee right, but after learning the inverted method I was happy as a lark! I like strong coffee (old habit from my Army days!)
AeroPress is great. I like to hear that there are also other people in the community that brew coffee on this great tool!
Honduras has exceptional coffees as well, but Costa Rica always sounded a bit more exotic to me and every coffee that I have tried was excellent. I have a coffee from Honduras almost all the time in my home.
Best wishes!
There are just so many good coffee producing nations anymore. Costa Rica has some great coffee, and I've had some really good Peruvian coffee recently. I'm always always looking for some new really good coffee without paying a fortune!
this is one of my favorite method to make coffee, so delicious!!
Indeed, AeroPress is great!