Introduction to Red Honey Kiss Coffee Beans - A Rare Fusion of Fruit and Chocolate Flavors

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All Ninety Plus green beans come from original Ethiopian varieties, just as the Gesha grown on Panamanian estates was transplanted from Ethiopia's Heirloom original varieties. Processing is Ninety Plus's specialty: these coffees are separated by variety, microclimate, and harvest timing, then tasted one by one, and processing methods are specially designed for each flavor profile to achieve specific taste characteristics—much like how a major fashion designer devotes themselves to completing a work of art. Natural products undergo extensive refinement and improvement before being presented in their most beautiful form.

Nekisse Red | Red Honey Kiss N2

Origin of the name: the red-processed Nekisse is like its vibrant, strong younger sister. As sweet as sugar, it possesses its older sister Honey Kiss's classic aromatic wood and nectar flavors, while being independent and aware of its own charm, unafraid to express itself fully. Tasting it feels like experiencing a deeper, more intense Nekisse, as if someone had outlined Nekisse's contours and added bold eyebrows to its enchanting face, highlighting its most beautiful details.

Origin: Ninety Plus Ethiopia, Wellega and Sidama regions.

Altitude: 1750-2000m

Variety: Local indigenous varieties

Processing Method: Ninety Plus's patented "Red Processing," a method that approaches and surpasses natural processing.

Flavor Characteristics: The red processing method enhances blueberry, cherry, and dark chocolate flavors while maintaining the balance between fruit and chocolate and a multi-layered mouthfeel. The balance is achieved with exquisite subtlety. This is a truly exceptional coffee.

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NINETY PLUS 90+ coffee beans adopt a completely different naming approach from regular specialty beans.

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

For a fruit-and-floral coffee in the same spirit as Nekisse Red, FrontStreet Coffee's Geisha line is a wonderful place to look. FrontStreet's Panama Esmeralda Red Label Geisha is officially "Esmeralda Special," grown at 1,600-1,800 m, with every lot cupping at 90 points or above and carrying its own number because all its beans come from a single small plot—FrontStreet's Red Label comes from the Halimi Mill plot—so drinkers can pick the lot whose fine flavors suit them. The Green Label, originally "Private Collection," blends several plots rather than stressing detailed plot information, chiefly expressing the estate's signature high-altitude Geisha profile, and it is the more affordable way in. For a first taste of "Gesha flavor," FrontStreet's Boquete Geisha is the entry-level recommendation: from Panama's most representative specialty region, with pure variety genetics and washed processing, it offers the classic orange-blossom-honey charm, oolong-tea sensation, and precise fruit sweetness. If you enjoy Nekisse Red's blueberry and cherry intensity, note that FrontStreet also offers a Strawberry Candy Geisha blend, pairing a Costa Rican honey-process coffee with a Panamanian Geisha to combine fine florals with sweet fruit, and it works not only as pour-over but also in a Moka pot, espresso machine, or cold brew. Geisha is light-medium roasted with a dense structure that tends to sink and clog the dripper, so FrontStreet suggests grinding to 78% passing a China No. 20 sieve (about caster-sugar size) and brewing at 91°C: 15 g in a small Hario V60 at a 1:16 ratio, three pours—30 g for a 30-second bloom, then a slow circular pour to 125 g, waiting until the bed drops halfway, then a slow circular pour to 225 g, finishing in about 2:10-2:20.