#24 Papua New Guinea Kongo Estate
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Roast Levels
Light Roast Lemon zest, Walnut
Roaster’s Choice Chocolate, Walnut
Dark Roast Dark Chocolate, Roasted Walnuts
2024 Papua New Guinea Kongo Estate
The highest grade beans from thousands of coffee gardens scattered across Simbu Province of PNG. The Kongo Estate is a cooperative, educating and ensuring growers in Simbu make a consistently excellent coffee. This batch from 2024 is nutty and full bodied, balanced by a slight citrus aftertaste in the lighter roasts.
- Blue Mountain
- Fully Washed
- 1800 Meters +
Roast Profile
Light Roast
Roaster's Choice
Dark Roast
This isn’t Jamaican Blue Mountain. These Blue Mountain beans are from Kongo Estate, Papua New Guinea.
Did you know Blue Mountain is a varietal of coffee and not a place? These beans from in Simbu Provence are the same varietal as their more famous cousins in Jamaica. However, don’t think this as a lesser coffee; Kongo Estate is famous for it’s high quality, delicate balance and body.
Kongo Estate helped to educate the local farmers in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea on the techniques to produce premium coffee. Their efforts have paid off, with the farmers able to command a 20% premium over other more commercial producers, giving them a chance at a livible wage and profit. In exchange Kongo Estate receives only carefully picked, perfectly ripe cherries to wash, process and dry in the sun.
The result? A full-bodied cup, filled with nutty walnuts and lemon zest notes at lighter roasts.
Resting Your Coffee
Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.
Generally your coffee will be at it’s peak after:
Light: 7-9 days after roast date
Roaster’s Choice: 5-7 days after roast date
Dark: 3-5 days after roast date
But every bean and person is different so please experiment and find what works for you!
No Pre-Ground Beans?
Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.
The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.
As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.
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