Comparing Single Origin Coffee Beans
While there are many different blends of coffee that we offer from various countries across the bean belt, there is also a great demand for single origin coffee beans. The bean belt is the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, with the perfect climate to grow the coffee fruit. Single origin coffee beans are grown within a single farm and in a specific geographical region, such as a country. Koffee Kult is here to help you compare the flavors of the different single origin coffee beans across the bean belt, beginning with light to dark.
- Kenyan beans have the taste of berries and citrus in a light roast.
- Brazilian coffee beans taste like chocolate and vanilla in a light roast.
- Ethiopian coffee beans from Koffee Kult have hints of blueberry and citrus when in medium roast.
- In a light to medium roast, Malawi beans have the taste of lemon and honey.
- Burundi beans taste like lemon and lime in a medium roast.
- Mexican coffee beans are smooth and nutty when roasted medium.
- Myanmar coffee beans offer a chocolate, nutty, herby, honey, smooth body that is sweet as it cools.
- From El Salvador, medium roast coffee beans taste like creamy caramel.
- At a medium to high roast, Nicaragua coffee beans taste like hazelnut.
- Medium roasted Koffee Kult Colombian coffee beans taste like caramel and toasted nuts; however, when brought from a different area they taste like caramel and fruit when roasted to a full medium.
- Guatemalan medium roast beans taste like sweet honey.
- In India, the beans have mellow spices at a medium roast.
- Papua New Guinea beans have gamey undertones when roasted medium.
- Interestingly, Rwanda medium roast coffee beans have the flavor of plum and floral notes.
- Sumatra beans in medium roast have a chocolate and liquorice taste, while Koffee Kult coffee beans from Tanzania have chocolate and fruit.
- Vietnam coffee beans taste nutty and have a bit of a spice when roasted mediumly.
- Another interesting single origin coffee bean is from Indonesia, where when dark roasted they taste like chocolate and tobacco.
- In India, when the coffee beans are roasted medium to high, they taste like smooth chocolate.
- Cuban coffee beans taste like sweet caramel when roasted medium to high, while in Peru they taste like rich caramel at the same roast.
- In a medium to high roast, Tarrazu makes beans that taste like apples and dark chocolate.
- At a dark roast, East Timor coffee beans have the taste of pleasant cocoa.
Here at Koffee Kult, we hope you enjoy the various flavors that single origin coffee has to offer and try ours to find the one that suits your palate best.