Kainantu, Eastern Highlands
Papua New Guinea · 6°17′ S, 145°52′ E
Roasted on Mondays, rested a week, poured until it runs out. A small-batch roastery in Brunswick East, Melbourne, keeping one page for every lot it roasts.
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Cupping notes
Kainantu sits high in the Eastern Highlands, where coffee grows in small gardens beside sweet potato and banana, a few hundred trees to a family. Cherries are pulped and fermented overnight, washed, then dried on raised beds before they travel down the Highlands Highway to the coast. We roast this lot to a medium, just past the first crack and well short of the second. In the cup it is raw sugar and red apple first, then cocoa nib as it cools, with a soft, round body and a clean finish. Rest it a week after the roast date. For filter, 15 g to 250 ml at 94 °C; for espresso, 18 g in and 40 g out in about 28 seconds. It takes milk well.
This month's sheet
| Lot | In the cup | 250g |
|---|---|---|
| 041 Kainantu, PNGWashed · medium | Raw sugar, red apple, cocoa nib | A$24 |
| 042 Guji, EthiopiaNatural · light | Blueberry, jasmine, lemon peel | A$27 |
| 043 Gayo, SumatraWet-hulled · medium-dark | Cedar, dark chocolate, clove | A$23 |
| House espressoPNG and Brazil · medium-dark | Caramel, hazelnut, milk chocolate | A$21 |
Lot sheet
| Lot 041 | Detail |
|---|---|
| Region | Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea |
| Grown by | Smallholder gardens, about 300 trees each |
| Altitude | 1,600 to 1,900 m |
| Varieties | Typica, Bourbon, Arusha |
| Process | Washed, dried on raised beds |
| Harvest | June to August |
| Roast | Medium, step 5 of 8; rest it 7 days |
| Bags | 250 g A$24 · 1 kg A$82 |
Counter hours
Message us by Thursday with the lot and how you brew; your bags are ready Saturday.
Shop 3, 172 Weston Street, Brunswick East VIC 3057
Near the Weston Street stop on the 1 and 6 trams; bike racks by the door.