Test Roast: Marysabel SL28

Size: 5lbs 
Origin: La Paz, Honduras
Producers: Marysabel Caballero 
Elevation: 1580 masl
Notes: Plum, jasmine, lime, milk chocolate, gentle, orange ginger, honeycomb candy
Roasted: 10/6

This is a test roast of a Honduran SL28 we're building a profile for. We're finding this coffee to be great but needs maybe 10% more tweaks to be perfect. The SL28 variety brings that classic Kenyan brightness and complexity but filtered through Honduras' La Paz terroir, creating graham cracker sweetness with citrus spice and honeycomb richness. This legendary farm has been consistently placing in Cup of Excellence competitions since 2004, and their sustainable farming practices across 36 different plots showcase true terroir diversity. In the name of good business practice we're offering our test roasts to our wholesale partners at close to green costs for maximum efficiency and cost savings for both our partners and our shop.

Context: We go through so much coffee as a roaster, and with demand steadily growing we have doubled down on test roasting especially for more experimental coffees. This means we have a decent amount of coffee's we're trying to find uses for. And while the uses are always present, the sheer volume of tests roasts we're producing leaves us with a little extra from time to time. We're reducing this formerly roaster waste by seeing normally acceptable, if not great coffees, offered a second chance for our clients to take advantage with accompanying aggressive cost savings. Use them to make great quick drip offerings interesting, training staff, cold brew unique or home spro fun. We've seen only a few other roasters we look up to utilizing the same practices recently to much of their clients success so it only makes sense to be early on the wave.