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Costa Rica Alajuela, Brewtay Coffee
Brewtay Coffee, Wynnewood, PA

Costa Rica Alajuela

RoastMedium
Tastes like
Sweet apple, raisin, honey
Process
Eco-pulped
Size
Grind
$25.0012 oz bag, $2.08/oz

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About this coffee

A medium roast, eco-pulped coffee from Alajuela, Costa Rica, grown at 1,300 to 1,445 m.

What Brewtay Coffee states about this coffee, and what is on record about it.

Roast
Medium
Process
Eco-pulped
Variety
Caturra, Catuai
Altitude
1,300 to 1,445 m
Good for
Filter, cold brew

Why this coffee

What will it taste like?

Mostly fruit, some sugar.

  • Fruit67%
  • Sugar and spice33%

The roaster’s notes: sweet apple, raisin, honey.

Acidity
Body
Sweetness
Balance
Clean

Profile estimated from the roaster’s tasting notes.

See these notes on the flavor wheel

Mapped from the roaster’s tasting notes to the SCA flavor wheel: our reading of their notes, not the roaster’s own categories.

How does the price compare?

$2.08an ounce for the 12 oz bag, before shipping and tax.

We sell too few coffees like this one to compare it side by side.

Estimated from its listed traits and this roaster's other prices: $1.65 to $2.89 an ounce.

$1.65$2.89

What moves the price

  • Roaster brand and sourcing+13%
  • Single origin+3%

The estimate comes from a statistical model, refit weekly on coffees listed by the roasters in our shop. A price comparison says nothing about how a coffee tastes.

The variety and the origin

About caturra

Genetic group
Bourbon-Typica group (Bourbon related)
Lineage
Natural mutation of the Bourbon variety
Breeder
Instituto Agronômico (IAC), Brazil
Stature
Dwarf/Compact
Bean size
Average
Yield potential
Medium
Quality at high altitude
Good
Coffee leaf rust
Low resistance/susceptible

Source: World Coffee Research, Caturra

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