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I'm partial to the creamy sweetness that shows through on honey process coffees. Years ago I used to love Blackcurrant notes, enough that I'd be frequently importing green beans from Yirgacheffee, Kenya to the US to have processed by a local roaster to my spec. I don't have that kind of disposable income anymore ๐ .
My perfect cup of coffee nowadays should have a full bodied earthiness, and notes of dried fruit and chocolate. For these reasons I usually reach for Guatemalan coffee lately.
If you like earthy coffee, have you tried Sumatra Mandheling? It's a bit of a divisive taste but I really enjoy it now and then, super low acidity and very earthy flavours, like leather and tobacco notes and often with a spiciness like white or black pepper almost.
That sounds divine ๐คค and like it would be magnificent on an early morning hike. I'll have to look out for some, thank you for your suggestion ๐
Sumatra coffees are also good candidates for aging, if you can find a good aged Mandheling that's an even more intense and complex flavour. I bought a bag of quality aged Mandheling a year or two ago and it was the most intense flavour I've tried, earthy like drinking the damp forest floor of a jungle (but in a good way!), very strong pipe tobacco and pepper notes and an aftertaste that felt like it kept developing for like a minute after a sip.