BSCA Espresso Blend No. 1

by Reiss Gunson on Monday, 25 April 2011 21:53

The Brazil Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA) offers not only estate coffees and varietals, but also an Espresso blend that is available throughout the year.

We are reliably informed that the BSCA espresso blend is made with some of the finest naturals, pulped naturals and fully washed coffees produced in the Bahia, Cerrado, Mogiana and Sul de Minas regions of Brazil, and carefully mixed to enhance body, aroma and natural sweetness.

Over the last couple of weeks we have been experimenting with a bag of this coffee.  We thought it might give us another fine single origin coffee from Brazil, but in truth it is just too insipid.  It works well when deployed as the base in a blend.  As a result we have decided not to offer this coffee for sale.

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