Mind = Blown

Our OG best seller is back and this time it's a processing tour de force! This year's iteration of Mind=Blown is a carbonic macerated, yeast inoculated natural!

 The good folks at Mooleh Manay wanted  to up the complexity of this year's lot while maintaining the consistency they achieved last year. To do this, they decided to throw the kitchen sink at the coffee in the processing department by using a custom yeast  culture along with carbonic maceration.

 The start of the intricate process is by picking ripe arabica cherries(mix of SLN 5B, Catuai and Chandragiri) and using a syphon tank to remove immature cherries that float.

 The sunken cherries are then pre dried for 48 hours. This is a very important step as it reduces the moisture, which helps achieve better control in the fermentation. This goes a long way to prevent any off flavours.

 The pre-dried cherries are then put in sealed barrels along with a custom yeast culture and a controlled carbonic maceration enviornment is created. The fermentation lasts for 60 hours.

 The cherries are then dried in a poly house for 10 days, where they are raked constantly to ensure even drying.

 This extensive and intricate process has resulted in a coffee that is a revelation! There's oodles of strawberry and peachy fruitiness in the cup that is balanced with a sugarcane like sweetness and a big bold, mouthfeel. All these flavours harmonize very well without any off tastes or excessive booziness, making this year's Mind=Blown very drinkable apart from being a flavour riot.

 The coffee really opens up 8 days post roast date for manual brews and makes for a fruit jam of an espresso 18 days post roast date. This coffee is not be missed on any count!