When it comes to overseas specialty coffee brands, perhaps everyone from the early days of attention to some old Nordic brands, in recent years will pay more attention to the production of Japan, Australia and other countries of fine roasters, it can be said that there may always be surprises in the search for beans, there may be strange experiences, but anyway, all the way blind selection to find a variety of interesting beans, which in itself is an unforgettable thing. For this reason, my "World Specialty Coffee Bean Hunt Review" series has also been increasing, and the entire wall of my home is covered with bean bags, which can be regarded as some souvenirs for myself on the bean hunting trip.
The brand I want to talk to you about today is from the United Arab Emirates, if you will "black question mark face", then it is too small to look at the UAE, in fact, the UAE's coffee throughput is quite large, remember the early years, I was still a little addicted to "%", have been expecting it to quickly come to the country to open stores, it is expected that it would rather choose Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and even Sri Lanka, did not put China into its eyes, in fact, to some extent, it is also the priority of market potential and demand, the domestic coffee industry has flourished in recent years, It can be regarded as a good improvement. The topic is far away, so I am still curious about this specialty coffee brand that grows in the UAE. For the local tycoon UAE, this roaster located in Sharjah, they have a very strong green bean resource, which is when you browse their official website, see the source area and batch of beans on the shelf, you know that this is definitely rich, hahaha.
This roaster is also famous in the UAE, and has won coffee brewing competitions and barista competitions in the UAE for many years, and they also have a very close cooperation with Deborah, Alida, Donkey and other golden estates, so the overall Archers' bean list is also quite amazing, divided into high-end competition series, micro-batches and special batches, and even some beans are exclusive distribution of Archers. The bean I want to share with you today is a bean in the Archers competition series, an anaerobic sun-dried bean from ALO village in Ethiopia, and its most noteworthy bean seed is "74158", I opened the bean bag and was shocked, this 74158 bean seed, I drank it for the first time, how can it be so cute? It's too small, hahahahaha, it's cute.
This batch of beans is from Tamiru Tadesse, the first and fifth place winners of the 2021 Ethiopian COE, and the winning score is more than 90 points, the real 90+, hahaha. For this bean, you need to talk about "74158" before talking about brewing, which is the name of a bean seed, the reason for this name, in fact, 74 refers to the year, that is, 1974, and 158 is the number of the bean when it was discovered, that is, bean No. 158. Initially, it was better known to more people, but because in the 2021 COE Competition, Ezesi Dharma's "74158" won fifth place, with a high score of 90.1, which also made people look forward to it.
This is also anaerobic treatment, and now it is really a "10,000 beans can be anaerobic" treatment. I like this sentence in the self-introduction of this brand: we let the coffee tell it's own story, a brand's baking concept is also very important, how to grasp the big and let go of the small, promote the strengths and avoid the weaknesses to fully reflect the flavor characteristics of a bean, a little bit of a matter of opinion, but can make people feel the flavor and produce memory points, I think that is success.
The first thing you feel after grinding this bean is that it is processed cleanly, there is almost no silver skin, and the dry aroma is full of juicy and full fruity aroma, full of sweetness. With a relatively strong lychee flavor (and it is also the sweet and sour lychee of the concubine laughter, hahaha), the juicy candy tone is the best interpretation of the dry fragrance.
The wet aroma of the beginning of brewing really makes me very like, rarely in this link there will be a clearer aroma of flowers and fruits permeating, and you can smell some Chinese pastry flavor, a bit similar to hawthorn stuffed mooncake feeling, hahaha. Overall, this bean is still relatively durable, my double-hole large trapezoidal filter cup has a medium flow rate, the overall brewing control is completed in about 2 minutes, the water temperature is not recommended to be too high, in fact, anaerobic treatment of beans, I do not recommend high water temperature, otherwise there will be some fermentation of the flavor becomes more obvious. I think the fermentation of this bean will still be overshadowed by the aroma of other flowers and fruits, and the focus of your flavor perception is in the sweetness of lychee rose and a little fruit sugar, and the taste is solid and round, which can be drunk without realizing it.