Musician Series Coffee Names: Costa Rica's Musician Series - The Powerhouse Trendsetter

FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Costa Rica Musician Series

"Tarrazu," in the south of San Jose, Costa Rica's capital, takes its name from the ancient Huetar people who once settled here. In these hills the Canet Estate mainly grows passion fruit, with coffee planted in only one specific area. The coffee from that plot is known to be distributed exclusively by Taiwan's Black Gold, a green bean trader. Canet Estate rose to fame quickly on the strength of its acclaimed "Musician" series of green beans (Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven). According to Black Gold Coffee's official site, Canet Estate sits in the highest-altitude coffee growing area of Costa Rica's Tarrazu region (1,950m and above).

Canet is located in the highest coffee growing area of Tarrazu, Costa Rica. Caturra is a single-gene variant of Bourbon, discovered in Brazil in 1937. It yields more and resists disease better than Bourbon, and its shorter stature makes harvesting easier. In flavor it brings lemon or citrus acidity with fruity sweetness.

The area is Costa Rica's most intensive fruit-growing zone. The estate owner primarily grows passion fruit, and coffee production is quite limited. Coffee is planted in just one area, given special care, and only ripe red cherries are picked selectively.

Raisin honey processing is considered a form of double-fermented honey processing. The cherries are first dried to a raisin-like state, then depulped and fermented as honey. This produces more intense fermentation flavors and preserves more mucilage than other honey methods. The 100% mucilage honey process truly delivers a distinctive raisin flavor. It is an exceptionally sweet method that offers a white-wine mouthfeel and balanced acidity, with more intense fermentation notes and greater mucilage retention than other honey techniques.

The Musician Series consists of four varieties: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Chopin.

In summary, FrontStreet Coffee is a dedicated coffee research establishment that eagerly shares coffee knowledge with everyone. We share without reservation to help more friends fall in love with coffee. Every month we hold three coffee events with significant discounts, because FrontStreet Coffee wants to provide the best coffee at the lowest possible prices to more friends. That has been our mission for the past six years.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

To try Brazil, FrontStreet Coffee suggests starting with the half-sun Cerrado, a classic Brazilian single origin. Cerrado is a well-known coffee region prized for high-quality beans, and FrontStreet's lot uses the red Bourbon variety common across South America. Roasted medium, it shows rich aromas of creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel and hazelnut, with a round body, no acidity and a light bitter edge, and it works not only as pour-over but also in a moka pot, as an espresso SOE, in a siphon or in a French press.

For a rarer variety, FrontStreet Coffee also offers the Queen Estate yellow Bourbon from Mogiana, close to South Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil lets the fruit take up plenty of nutrients and develop a full aroma. Yellow Bourbon is a natural mutation of red Bourbon, and its fruit character is cleaner. Whether brewed as pour-over, in a moka pot or on a home espresso machine, it brings a sugarcane sweetness found in few other regions, along with fruit and chocolate notes. Brazil's low acidity, balanced cup and approachable price have also made it the first choice in many espresso blends, where it contributes chocolate and cream aromas plus a gentle sweet-sour-bitter balance that helps keep extraction stable.