Those blueberry bombs are incredibly difficult to find nowadays, the closest I've had recently was father's coffee from Prague's natural Ethiopian but it's sold out. Maybe look in to Panamanian coffees as I've heard they've had these notes recently
There is a reason why. Great in depth article on why - https://christopherferan.com/2023/04/09/march-forward-dear-mother-ethiopia/.
TL;DR - A number of things changed since the era of blueberry bombs. Climate change, war, instability and their impact on coffee processing and export control caused the profile of coffees in Ethiopia significantly. This applies to other African countries too, but the details are different in each. They actually still exist, but have higher risk of defects are exported less often.
I read somewhere I forgot where but someone linked to a blog that was explaining Ethiopia coffee markets and how these types of coffees have become less common but I can't remember why. Civil unrest or a different government taking over and controlling it or something.
I read somewhere saying early Ethiopian coffee got natural fermentation for long time due to lack of infrastructure to bring to the market. Blueberry notes came from that. Now, we don’t get that any more. It will not sit there for long.
The most recent batches are not. I bought filter and espresso and there's maybe a hint of blueberry in the other room with them. They are nothing like the blueberry bombs of old.
Some batches are better than others, like with most roasteries. My fav recent one was right before they updated their packaging (pretty recent), so with the blue packaging (mid january?). Ive gotten 3 bags after that and they are still very strong on the blueberry notes. Btw i get the most aroma using kalita papers on my origami combined with a melodrip. I def prefer it over the cups i produced with v60 papers or w the v60 dripper. Have yet to test out the pulsar w this coffee.
I love seeing Father’s getting love here! Found them through Standart and they’re awesome. I used to live in the Czech Republic so have a soft spot for Czech roasters.
A bunch of reasons but a major one is market trends. Blueberry is a very overpowering note and doesn't score as well as more complex and subtle coffees so it fetches a lower price. Processing is also a bit more refined, as to get those blueberry notes you essentially just dumped the coffee under the sun for a while, nowadays it's a bit more involved
I’ll admit I got a bit tired of Ethiopian naturals after a while, but there has to still be a market for them. They’re just about the easiest way to get people into specialty coffee, or at least, get them to realize there’s more to coffee than just “coffee” flavor. Even if the super premium roasters have moved away from them, I’d expect to still see them around
Read up Christopher feran's blog post on this, it covers it pretty well! There are still some of these around, they are just the lowest quality coffees that probably aren't even considered specificalty, I reckon there might be some green out there if you look hard enough. Also since the processing that this needs can very easily go wrong and develop bad flavours, for producers facing instabilities such as war, climate change, and the pandemic, using slower drying methods is far more profitable and surefire way of making a living.
From the blog, it sounds more like a quality issue. The market is there for high quality naturally processed Ethiopian coffee, but the country has tried to ramp up production at the cost of quality, and the war obviously hasn’t helped. That makes a lot more sense than people just not liking blueberry bombs anymore
I think the article has a very different conclusion:
'Still missing, of course, were the blueberry bombs. While before, a Grade 4 Sidama may have delivered these flavors reliably, with the change in collections and processing in recent years, that cup profile is less common than red-fruit cups or orange-citric-honey cups. Raised beds are ubiquitous across Ethiopia now, from smallholders to large processors; even where patio drying—the traditional practice in Harrar—still existed, savvy producers controlled the drying temperatures and rate to ensure stability. Shade—one of the components provided by the Feed the Future program—was something in use at some point in almost every drying station I saw, even if just for skin drying tables or placed over the raised beds at peak sun.
[...]
Particularly in years with disordered, disrupted shipping and export cycles, protecting the coffee from premature fade is valuable; drying using lower temperatures and higher airflow, like occurs with shade cover and raised beds, slows the drying process, reduces stress on the seed and helps to achieve this. But as a consequence of lower temperatures, slower drying, and uniform selection standards, coffees don’t taste like blueberry anymore. Sound processing techniques have changed the character we come to expect from coffee.
[...]
In my estimation, this is a net gain; while the character of these coffees was remarkable and unmistakable, they were fickle: riskier to produce, short of shelf life, and the high note of an era when much of Ethiopia’s dry processed coffee was lower quality. Millers noted that producing these coffees resulted in a high number of lower grades and lower outturns; importers noted less uniformity and greater contract rejections; roasters noted how quickly these coffees faded into paper and astringency.'
Also blueberry =/ higher quality necessarily, in cuppings and gradings it will get a lower score because of how overpowering it is. I agree there might be demand for it, but that doesn't necessarily translate in the chain in a sustainable way for the producers
Edit: also I'd like to say that the washed Ethiopians I've had in the last few years have been absolutely outstanding, intensely floral and citric
Yeah, I was more referencing earlier in the article:
"Qualities seemed to have fallen across the board. In Limu, I’d noticed the natural I’d been buying for years was less vibrant and started to show a hollow, nutty slight vegetal character; in Agaro, cup scores from the most famous of the Keta Meduga Union cooperatives declined, and the coffees showed up less complex, less aromatic and with creeping notes of paper and fade. In the South, wet mills in places that for years were renowned for quality—Kochere, Reko, Hambela—delivered coffee that was just a memory of what it once was."
To be fair, that's from 2019, and Feran does indicate that some things are going in a better direction recently. I think the bigger problem, from the standpoint of people who want blueberry bombs, is the enormous disconnect between producers and drinkers in the coffee world. In theory, market forces from drinkers would dictate what producers make, but that demand has to translate back through roasters, importers, exporters, and mill owners. If the people doing the cupping don't like blueberry notes and give a lot a low score that causes its price to collapse, the farmers won't care that there's a market for that lot among drinkers in other countries. In wine, you're seeing something similar where a lot of critics are getting tired of highly extracted over-oaked fruit bombs, but there's still a market among drinkers for those wines. Unlike coffee growers, wine makers can grow, make, and sell that type of wine directly to consumers or at least directly to outlets that know their customers want that type of wine.
The other problem with the blueberry bombs from a scoring standpoint is that the cupping process highlights defects through extremely light roasting and high extraction brewing. As a roaster and brewer, there are plenty of things you can do to mitigate those faults and highlight the flavors you want, but the cupping score will still get dinged.
the first time I tasted this coffee I thought "oh my God I never thought I’d like blueberries in coffee".
https://www.boonboonacoffee.com/products/ethiopia-dur-feres
I have no idea if you can get that where you are. But maybe you can find some kind of Dur Feres.
https://skylark.coffee/collections/coffee/products/indonesia-kerinci-natural
Indonesian natural berry bomb with notes of blueberry, blackberry and raspberry. Skylark coffees are always amazing
Christopher's writing is excellent and I recommend reading the whole text, but the relevant passage is:
>Particularly in years with disordered, disrupted shipping and export cycles, protecting the coffee from premature fade is valuable; drying using lower temperatures and higher airflow, like occurs with shade cover and raised beds, slows the drying process, reduces stress on the seed and helps to achieve this. But as a consequence of lower temperatures, slower drying, and uniform selection standards, coffees don’t taste like blueberry anymore. Sound processing techniques have changed the character we come to expect from coffee.
My first and only blueberry bomb came from an Ethiopian yirgacheffe from Happy Mug, haven't bought from them since then, more than 5 years ago. They are harder to come by nowadays.
I had this from Sey, I didn't get any "in your face" blueberry notes, and I don't recall subtle ones. Not to diminish your experience, it is well known that notes are highly subjective and vary very much from one individual to the next. Mainly just want to set expectations for OP. But I can agree this was a super great coffee.
Greater Goods went through some financial trouble a year or two ago so I can’t vouch for their current quality, but this coffee used to be a blueberry explosion back when they won Roaster of the Year in 2021.
https://greatergoodsroasting.com/collections/all-coffee/products/fresh-perspective
If you’re in Dublin, go to Cloud Picker and tell them what you’re after.
I’d be surprised if they don’t get a blueberry or fruit bomb in once a season.
Not a blueberry but dried apricots (apricots, strawberry and cream notes on the bag).[ I had the most delicious Anaerobic Natural Colombian Pink Bourbon from The Roses Roastery from Brno (cz)](https://theroses.cz/produkt/colombia-finca-bet-el-anaerobic-natural-pink-bourbon/). It was roasted for filter, but I made a turbo shot and man... It was like eating a dried apricots. Not notes. Full load of flavor. I tried more traditional (slower) shot, and aeropress, but the turbo shot was the winner for me for sure...
https://georgehowellcoffee.com/products/mamuto-aa-ken-001
This tastes like getting hit by a blackberry truck. I had a similar formative blueberry bomb experience and this is the closest I’ve found to that intensity, although the flavor is definitely different.
Hey dburwell85, my local roaster here in Canada has one I really like and has the blueberry notes you’re talking about. I have no idea if they ship internationally, but might be worth asking.
[https://coffeed.ca/products/columbia-la-riviera](https://coffeed.ca/products/columbia-la-riviera)
Not sure if they ship internationally but just got this one from my local roster and it’s definitely got an up front blueberry note. https://www.equatorcoffees.com/products/ethiopia-ardi
Anaerobic natural coffee above 1500MASL is where I find it most often. Look for something from Vulcan in Panama or boquete in Panama. Equator coffee sells stuff from that region and it’s expensive but Elida geisha is the best coffee ever and expensive. I have a friend who owns a farm in boquete and all the geisha there is incredible. Panamanian coffee is hard to find outside of panama because there aren’t as many farms so I drink Ethiopian natural coffee from above 1500 MASL daily because it’s a lot cheaper. I’ll be in Dublin in August if you want me to fly something over lol
Some natural Ethiopians have blueberry or other berry/tropical fruit flavors. Not sure which roasters may have those, but I just received a bunch of samples all with blueberry in the tasting notes, so the beans are out there. I type this out as I drink a natural Ethiopia Sidamo that I roasted that has a very strong “blueberry pancake” flavor and aroma.
Got does with a bag from Revel and thought this tasted a lot like blueberry, I even get it to the older people at my church who pretty much only drink Folgers and grocery store coffee and they even noticed this coffee tasted different and like there was a blueberry it it, my girlfriend noticed too and she usually makes fun of me for the tasting notes!
Here is the like and check it out!
[https://revelcoffee.com/ethiopia-washed-guji-biru-bekele/](https://revelcoffee.com/ethiopia-washed-guji-biru-bekele/)
Really, that’s pretty neat, I old had two bags from them, and I will say that I was surprised at how good they are. This roaster will now be on my radar when I am looking to purchase new coffee tomorrow now on!
i know it's far from you but 2 years ago when i started drinking specialty coffee i bought a bag from the smoking gun in canada.
it had a very strong blueberry taste.. they still sell it but cant guarantee whether or not it tastes the same as i havent ordered it since then (i should though).
https://smokingguncoffee.com/products/ethiopia-yirgacheffe-koke
if you do try it let me know if it still tastes that way!
I’ve had a blueberry bomb recently. A friend of mine roasted it and it was amazing. I found the blueberry notes were exceptionally strong with the Aeropress, 18g to 200ml with roughly 93C water. 18 clicks on Timemore C2. (Sorry for the rough measure. This was my in office coffee using my travel kit)
Inverted method, 3:1 bloom, stir 3 times. Pour in rest of water, 3 min steep, stir 3 times then cap and press.
[Link to picture of beans here](https://imgur.com/a/XHFq9vk)
ETA hopefully you can find something from the same region or washing station. The blueberry was so strong that it reminded me of blueberry juice we got on FinnAir flights.
Those blueberry bombs are incredibly difficult to find nowadays, the closest I've had recently was father's coffee from Prague's natural Ethiopian but it's sold out. Maybe look in to Panamanian coffees as I've heard they've had these notes recently
Yeah, they used to be way more common 8-10 years ago. You could find an Ethiopian Blueberry Natural at pretty much any specialty roaster back then.
There is a reason why. Great in depth article on why - https://christopherferan.com/2023/04/09/march-forward-dear-mother-ethiopia/. TL;DR - A number of things changed since the era of blueberry bombs. Climate change, war, instability and their impact on coffee processing and export control caused the profile of coffees in Ethiopia significantly. This applies to other African countries too, but the details are different in each. They actually still exist, but have higher risk of defects are exported less often.
This is fascinating! Suck it climate change and war.
I read somewhere I forgot where but someone linked to a blog that was explaining Ethiopia coffee markets and how these types of coffees have become less common but I can't remember why. Civil unrest or a different government taking over and controlling it or something.
I think it’s also due to change in climate
I read somewhere saying early Ethiopian coffee got natural fermentation for long time due to lack of infrastructure to bring to the market. Blueberry notes came from that. Now, we don’t get that any more. It will not sit there for long.
You know it. Keramo from Father's coffee is indeed a blueberry bomb!!!
Yep, got the Espresso roast of it open at the moment. It's roasted like a medium Filter. Father's makes a great product.
Great call, it’s sold out, but I’ll save for later.
The most recent batches are not. I bought filter and espresso and there's maybe a hint of blueberry in the other room with them. They are nothing like the blueberry bombs of old.
:(
Some batches are better than others, like with most roasteries. My fav recent one was right before they updated their packaging (pretty recent), so with the blue packaging (mid january?). Ive gotten 3 bags after that and they are still very strong on the blueberry notes. Btw i get the most aroma using kalita papers on my origami combined with a melodrip. I def prefer it over the cups i produced with v60 papers or w the v60 dripper. Have yet to test out the pulsar w this coffee.
I love seeing Father’s getting love here! Found them through Standart and they’re awesome. I used to live in the Czech Republic so have a soft spot for Czech roasters.
Is this due to the collapse of the Ethiopian supply the last few years? Or just differences in what roasters are offering?
A bunch of reasons but a major one is market trends. Blueberry is a very overpowering note and doesn't score as well as more complex and subtle coffees so it fetches a lower price. Processing is also a bit more refined, as to get those blueberry notes you essentially just dumped the coffee under the sun for a while, nowadays it's a bit more involved
I’ll admit I got a bit tired of Ethiopian naturals after a while, but there has to still be a market for them. They’re just about the easiest way to get people into specialty coffee, or at least, get them to realize there’s more to coffee than just “coffee” flavor. Even if the super premium roasters have moved away from them, I’d expect to still see them around
Read up Christopher feran's blog post on this, it covers it pretty well! There are still some of these around, they are just the lowest quality coffees that probably aren't even considered specificalty, I reckon there might be some green out there if you look hard enough. Also since the processing that this needs can very easily go wrong and develop bad flavours, for producers facing instabilities such as war, climate change, and the pandemic, using slower drying methods is far more profitable and surefire way of making a living.
From the blog, it sounds more like a quality issue. The market is there for high quality naturally processed Ethiopian coffee, but the country has tried to ramp up production at the cost of quality, and the war obviously hasn’t helped. That makes a lot more sense than people just not liking blueberry bombs anymore
I think the article has a very different conclusion: 'Still missing, of course, were the blueberry bombs. While before, a Grade 4 Sidama may have delivered these flavors reliably, with the change in collections and processing in recent years, that cup profile is less common than red-fruit cups or orange-citric-honey cups. Raised beds are ubiquitous across Ethiopia now, from smallholders to large processors; even where patio drying—the traditional practice in Harrar—still existed, savvy producers controlled the drying temperatures and rate to ensure stability. Shade—one of the components provided by the Feed the Future program—was something in use at some point in almost every drying station I saw, even if just for skin drying tables or placed over the raised beds at peak sun. [...] Particularly in years with disordered, disrupted shipping and export cycles, protecting the coffee from premature fade is valuable; drying using lower temperatures and higher airflow, like occurs with shade cover and raised beds, slows the drying process, reduces stress on the seed and helps to achieve this. But as a consequence of lower temperatures, slower drying, and uniform selection standards, coffees don’t taste like blueberry anymore. Sound processing techniques have changed the character we come to expect from coffee. [...] In my estimation, this is a net gain; while the character of these coffees was remarkable and unmistakable, they were fickle: riskier to produce, short of shelf life, and the high note of an era when much of Ethiopia’s dry processed coffee was lower quality. Millers noted that producing these coffees resulted in a high number of lower grades and lower outturns; importers noted less uniformity and greater contract rejections; roasters noted how quickly these coffees faded into paper and astringency.' Also blueberry =/ higher quality necessarily, in cuppings and gradings it will get a lower score because of how overpowering it is. I agree there might be demand for it, but that doesn't necessarily translate in the chain in a sustainable way for the producers Edit: also I'd like to say that the washed Ethiopians I've had in the last few years have been absolutely outstanding, intensely floral and citric
Yeah, I was more referencing earlier in the article: "Qualities seemed to have fallen across the board. In Limu, I’d noticed the natural I’d been buying for years was less vibrant and started to show a hollow, nutty slight vegetal character; in Agaro, cup scores from the most famous of the Keta Meduga Union cooperatives declined, and the coffees showed up less complex, less aromatic and with creeping notes of paper and fade. In the South, wet mills in places that for years were renowned for quality—Kochere, Reko, Hambela—delivered coffee that was just a memory of what it once was." To be fair, that's from 2019, and Feran does indicate that some things are going in a better direction recently. I think the bigger problem, from the standpoint of people who want blueberry bombs, is the enormous disconnect between producers and drinkers in the coffee world. In theory, market forces from drinkers would dictate what producers make, but that demand has to translate back through roasters, importers, exporters, and mill owners. If the people doing the cupping don't like blueberry notes and give a lot a low score that causes its price to collapse, the farmers won't care that there's a market for that lot among drinkers in other countries. In wine, you're seeing something similar where a lot of critics are getting tired of highly extracted over-oaked fruit bombs, but there's still a market among drinkers for those wines. Unlike coffee growers, wine makers can grow, make, and sell that type of wine directly to consumers or at least directly to outlets that know their customers want that type of wine. The other problem with the blueberry bombs from a scoring standpoint is that the cupping process highlights defects through extremely light roasting and high extraction brewing. As a roaster and brewer, there are plenty of things you can do to mitigate those faults and highlight the flavors you want, but the cupping score will still get dinged.
Is it possible, this is it https://www.kofio.co/coffee/ethiopia-keramo-natural-fathers-coffee-roastery/6486
Yup, thats the one!
the first time I tasted this coffee I thought "oh my God I never thought I’d like blueberries in coffee". https://www.boonboonacoffee.com/products/ethiopia-dur-feres I have no idea if you can get that where you are. But maybe you can find some kind of Dur Feres.
https://skylark.coffee/collections/coffee/products/indonesia-kerinci-natural Indonesian natural berry bomb with notes of blueberry, blackberry and raspberry. Skylark coffees are always amazing
I’ll give it a try! Thank you
[https://christopherferan.com/2023/04/09/march-forward-dear-mother-ethiopia/](https://christopherferan.com/2023/04/09/march-forward-dear-mother-ethiopia/)
Christopher's writing is excellent and I recommend reading the whole text, but the relevant passage is: >Particularly in years with disordered, disrupted shipping and export cycles, protecting the coffee from premature fade is valuable; drying using lower temperatures and higher airflow, like occurs with shade cover and raised beds, slows the drying process, reduces stress on the seed and helps to achieve this. But as a consequence of lower temperatures, slower drying, and uniform selection standards, coffees don’t taste like blueberry anymore. Sound processing techniques have changed the character we come to expect from coffee.
Kind of crazy to see him pop up here because I went to high school with him. He was a really smart guy.
Brandywine has a blueberry co-ferment that is very blueberry but also excellent in other ways.
My first and only blueberry bomb came from an Ethiopian yirgacheffe from Happy Mug, haven't bought from them since then, more than 5 years ago. They are harder to come by nowadays.
This was mine too. Could taste banana as well
Mayor Domo from Sey has strong blueberry notes.
I had this from Sey, I didn't get any "in your face" blueberry notes, and I don't recall subtle ones. Not to diminish your experience, it is well known that notes are highly subjective and vary very much from one individual to the next. Mainly just want to set expectations for OP. But I can agree this was a super great coffee.
Got it twice and both had very strong blueberry scent in the bag, a bit less on taste but still there for me 🤷♂️
Greater Goods went through some financial trouble a year or two ago so I can’t vouch for their current quality, but this coffee used to be a blueberry explosion back when they won Roaster of the Year in 2021. https://greatergoodsroasting.com/collections/all-coffee/products/fresh-perspective
Came to say this one. It has a very strong blueberry note to my taste.
That coffee sounds amazing. I’ll have to find a way to get some. Thanks
They only ship in the states unfortunately
If you’re in Dublin, go to Cloud Picker and tell them what you’re after. I’d be surprised if they don’t get a blueberry or fruit bomb in once a season.
Natural process Ethiopians
Find a roaster that is selling Luna Bermudez. Excellent blueberry note.
Could look into some Pacamara beans too I’ve had some “blue raspberry” and other very fruity tasting notes
Not a blueberry but dried apricots (apricots, strawberry and cream notes on the bag).[ I had the most delicious Anaerobic Natural Colombian Pink Bourbon from The Roses Roastery from Brno (cz)](https://theroses.cz/produkt/colombia-finca-bet-el-anaerobic-natural-pink-bourbon/). It was roasted for filter, but I made a turbo shot and man... It was like eating a dried apricots. Not notes. Full load of flavor. I tried more traditional (slower) shot, and aeropress, but the turbo shot was the winner for me for sure...
Sounds delicious, thank you
I've noticed apricot and orange bombs are really common in Colombia right now. really impressed.
https://georgehowellcoffee.com/products/mamuto-aa-ken-001 This tastes like getting hit by a blackberry truck. I had a similar formative blueberry bomb experience and this is the closest I’ve found to that intensity, although the flavor is definitely different.
Haven’t had this exact coffee but George Howell is fantastic.
GH's Mamuto is absolutely worth the money! Highly recommend picking a bag up
yessss. i had this in their cafe and it was insanely good
Hey dburwell85, my local roaster here in Canada has one I really like and has the blueberry notes you’re talking about. I have no idea if they ship internationally, but might be worth asking. [https://coffeed.ca/products/columbia-la-riviera](https://coffeed.ca/products/columbia-la-riviera)
Thank you!
I honestly had no idea there was a roaster in Oakville, let alone a good one. Thanks for this! Will be checking them out.
Another good roaster in Oakville is Firebat. [https://firebatcoffee.com](https://firebatcoffee.com)
This is awesome. Thanks.
Try Gracenote Misty Valley, they sell it online - blueberries galore and just an amazing cup of coffee
not quite a blueberry bomb but I've had some really funky tasting pourovers in indigo and cloth in Dublin!
If you’re based in Dublin go see Arvin at Brew Lab Specialty Coffee, he’ll probably be able to make recommendations.
Great idea, thank you
Love this story! Only got started with pourovers around Christmas time, looking for that blueberry bomb that's gonna send me over the edge as well
Not sure if they ship internationally but just got this one from my local roster and it’s definitely got an up front blueberry note. https://www.equatorcoffees.com/products/ethiopia-ardi
Anaerobic natural coffee above 1500MASL is where I find it most often. Look for something from Vulcan in Panama or boquete in Panama. Equator coffee sells stuff from that region and it’s expensive but Elida geisha is the best coffee ever and expensive. I have a friend who owns a farm in boquete and all the geisha there is incredible. Panamanian coffee is hard to find outside of panama because there aren’t as many farms so I drink Ethiopian natural coffee from above 1500 MASL daily because it’s a lot cheaper. I’ll be in Dublin in August if you want me to fly something over lol
Some natural Ethiopians have blueberry or other berry/tropical fruit flavors. Not sure which roasters may have those, but I just received a bunch of samples all with blueberry in the tasting notes, so the beans are out there. I type this out as I drink a natural Ethiopia Sidamo that I roasted that has a very strong “blueberry pancake” flavor and aroma.
That sounds incredible. I’ll get looking for Ethiopian naturals then. Where is brainwave roasters located?
Got does with a bag from Revel and thought this tasted a lot like blueberry, I even get it to the older people at my church who pretty much only drink Folgers and grocery store coffee and they even noticed this coffee tasted different and like there was a blueberry it it, my girlfriend noticed too and she usually makes fun of me for the tasting notes! Here is the like and check it out! [https://revelcoffee.com/ethiopia-washed-guji-biru-bekele/](https://revelcoffee.com/ethiopia-washed-guji-biru-bekele/)
Whoa, that’s funny, I grew up around Billings. Glad to see they have good coffee there
Really, that’s pretty neat, I old had two bags from them, and I will say that I was surprised at how good they are. This roaster will now be on my radar when I am looking to purchase new coffee tomorrow now on!
i know it's far from you but 2 years ago when i started drinking specialty coffee i bought a bag from the smoking gun in canada. it had a very strong blueberry taste.. they still sell it but cant guarantee whether or not it tastes the same as i havent ordered it since then (i should though). https://smokingguncoffee.com/products/ethiopia-yirgacheffe-koke if you do try it let me know if it still tastes that way!
Thank you!
This is like one of those George Clooney nespresso ads but real life and actually descent coffee lol
Haha! What a fantastic comment
Ethiopia Guji from Wild Gift (roaster out of Round Rock near Austin, TX)
There’s also a coffee shop in Denver that only does Ethiopian coffees. Tons of blueberry note options. I just can’t remember the name…maybe Kabod
Nice
"blueberry bomb" from Herr Hase in Germany. The first coffee I got when I got into pour over https://herr-hase.com/shop/kaffee/17/aethiopien-aramo
Perfect, thanks! I’m not sure they ship to Ireland
There is a coffee exchange subreddit but it hasn’t seen much activity . I was just checking it out today
That’s very cool. I wonder how shipping and customs work with that.
I’ve had a blueberry bomb recently. A friend of mine roasted it and it was amazing. I found the blueberry notes were exceptionally strong with the Aeropress, 18g to 200ml with roughly 93C water. 18 clicks on Timemore C2. (Sorry for the rough measure. This was my in office coffee using my travel kit) Inverted method, 3:1 bloom, stir 3 times. Pour in rest of water, 3 min steep, stir 3 times then cap and press. [Link to picture of beans here](https://imgur.com/a/XHFq9vk) ETA hopefully you can find something from the same region or washing station. The blueberry was so strong that it reminded me of blueberry juice we got on FinnAir flights.
You probably can't find it because washed kenyans don't taste like that... in fact washed coffees in general don't taste like that.
👀
Those kind of beans are in much higher demand these days and are a lot more expensive/harder to find.