
Umalila
Summary
A washed coffee from the Umalila cooperative in Tanzania's Southern Highlands, grown at 1,759 masl. Varieties N39 and Compact produce a bright, fruit-forward cup with raspberry, blood orange and honey notes, soft silky body, bright lemon acidity and a short tea-like finish. Well suited to filter brewing.
Filter
- Coffee in
- 16 g
- Water
- 250 g
- Time
- 2:45
- Temperature
- 96°C
Grind: Medium fine (Setting 10 on Fellow Opus 2)
- 0:00Start with a 25g bloom, ensuring to wet all the grounds (30 s)
- 0:30At 0.30, begin pouring 25g every 15 seconds until 2.30 (2:00)
- 2:30Brew should finish around 2.45 (15 s)
Equipment: Orea O1 Brewer
Published by the roaster for this coffee. Treat it as a starting point — your grinder, water and machine will want their own tweaks.
Details
- Format
- Bean
- Roast profile
- Filter
- Decaffeinated
- No
- Cupping score
- 85
- Region
- Southern highlands, Mbeya
- Producer
- Umalila cooperative
- Altitude
- 1759 m.a.s.l
- Variety
- N39
- Notes
- Raspberry, Blood Orange, Honey
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