Roaster: Flat Track Coffee Roasters
Name: Café Vida
Bean Origin: Central America; Costa Rica
Roast Date: March 20
As recently noted on my review of Flat Track the café, I have here now my experience with one of their coffee beans, precisely, the Café Vida from Costa Rica. If you’re not familiar with this country, it’s nestled between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and boasts incredible beaches as well as high altitude grounds, ideal for coffee growing. It is full of green vegetation as far as the eye can see and is never short of their rainy season which provides great nutrients to the soil. It is only to be expected that coffee production from Costa Rica will be consistently great given these factors and of course, the care that the farmers put into harvesting and drying the coffee beans.
With that established, it is then the roaster who is in command, it is their responsibility to enhance those natural flavors in the bean awaiting to be awaken. Flat Track, in my opinion, did a nice job roasting Café Vida. You can tell by the tastes in the cup that the homework was done on their end to ensure quality output in this medium roast.
I experienced this coffee on french press and clever and although both resulted in an enjoyable cup, my hands down favorite was the french press for this roast. On the clever, flavors of mildly smoked toffee took center stage so I would recommend this brew process to those looking to enjoy a cup with great taste and still get some of that smokiness you might miss from a darker roast. Now, brewed with the press, many more flavors came to life. The cup had a crisp red apple acidity, a chocolate body and a long finish of sweet caramel. Overall, Café Vida was a success and I truly enjoyed getting to know it. As always, I encourage you to try different brew methods, play with amounts and choose your personal favorite.
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*Thanks to Flat Track for being a sponsor. All opinions written here are mine and sponsorship has no influence on my review.
Clever & Pour 