FrontStreet Coffee Panama Boquete Butterfly Coffee Beans - Premium Blend with 70% Geisha

Product Information:
Manufacturer: Coffee Workshop
Address: FrontStreet Coffee, No. 10 Bao'an Qian Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Processing: Roasted coffee beans
Brand: Coffee Workshop
Series: FrontStreet Coffee Roasting
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Panama
Roast Level: Medium roast

Origin & Classification

Country: Panama

Grade: SHB (Strictly Hard Bean)

Region: Boquete

Roast Level: Medium roast

Processing Method: Washed

Varieties: Caturra, Catuai, Geisha

Flavor Notes: Tea-like aroma, honey, berries, classic Esmeralda Geisha flavor profile

The Panama Coffee Heritage

Panama, a Central American nation bordered by Costa Rica to the west and Colombia to the east, is renowned in the coffee world for its exceptional Geisha variety from Hacienda La Esmeralda. This represents a country dedicated to coffee excellence and producing premium quality beans.

Panama coffee gained fame through Hacienda La Esmeralda's Geisha, and the growing region itself holds considerable prestige: the Boquete region in Chiriquí Province. Boquete is a town in Chiriquí Province, located near the Panama-Costa Rica border and close to the famous Barú Volcano. With its picturesque landscapes, fertile soil, and ideal climate conditions, Boquete provides perfect conditions for producing exceptional coffee.

Within Boquete, numerous outstanding estates are distributed. Besides the famous Hacienda La Esmeralda, estates like Elida and Akaban are also renowned for producing premium specialty coffee. This success stems not only from Panama's superior ecological conditions and the fertile volcanic ash soil of Barú Volcano but also from an important factor: the unique microclimates in Boquete's highlands. As Panama's east-to-west environmental patterns cause cold air currents to converge above 6,500 feet through the central mountain range, multiple microclimates form in the Boquete area. The resulting temperature and rainfall patterns create ideal growing conditions, allowing coffee trees to thrive exceptionally well in this region.

The Flower Butterfly: Exceptional Value

However, in such a privileged growing environment as Boquete, there's more than just the precious Geisha variety—a coffee king renowned for its exceptional flavor, quality, and value. Yet drinking Geisha daily might be considered extravagant, and even without financial constraints, indulging in it constantly would be like eating delicacies at every meal, which loses its special appeal. Coffee, too, should be explored broadly to fully appreciate the pleasure of tasting different varieties.

This is where the Flower Butterfly comes in—a coffee bean from Boquete offering exceptional value with a beautifully poetic name. This coffee possesses 40% Geisha heritage, composed of three varieties: Geisha, Caturra, and Catuai. Cultivated in the Barú Volcano region of Boquete at an altitude of 1,600 meters, it undergoes meticulous washed processing. Panama's special microclimate ensures abundant rainfall and significant day-night temperature variations. Combined with the region's unique volcanic rock soil and careful harvesting and processing, this coffee demonstrates outstanding performance in body, acidity, and floral aromatics.

Unique Origins & Processing

What's particularly remarkable is that despite its exceptional quality, the Flower Butterfly offers incredibly approachable pricing, making its value proposition outstanding. The special characteristic of this coffee bean lies in its three-variety composition, with 40% Geisha variety giving it distinctive Geisha flavor notes. Research indicates that due to the estate's historical practices—when pursuing higher yields—the early Geisha variety was planted alongside Caturra and Catuai coffee trees. For easier harvesting, coffee farmers didn't reclassify the varieties but processed all three together directly. It was only after Geisha's meteoric rise to fame and soaring prices that the processing plant began implementing refined washed processing for this particular coffee blend.

Today, there are many washed processing methods, but they generally follow similar principles: after coffee cherries are harvested, floating beans are removed, then the pulp is stripped away. The coffee beans are then soaked in fermentation tanks, where enzymes in the water soften the mucilage attached to the parchment, while natural yeasts break down the sugars in the mucilage. This process is called fermentation. Once fermentation completes, the beans are moved to drying patios where they must be constantly turned to ensure even drying. Finally, they're stored in parchment in warehouses until green bean buyers place orders, at which point hulling and bagging occur. This processing method yields clean coffee flavors, emphasizing bright, lively fruit acidity, along with clear fruit flavors and floral aromatics.

Flavor Profile & Cupping Notes

Consequently, it's easy to imagine that with the Flower Butterfly's superior varietal advantages combined with refined processing, when completed with a medium-light roast to determine its final flavor direction, you'll certainly appreciate this coffee with its distinctive Geisha floral notes, Southeast Asian tropical fruits, berry flavors, honey-like sweetness and smoothness, and exceptionally persistent aroma and aftertaste.

Cupping Notes:

Fragrance (Dry Aroma): Jasmine, citrus, tea-like notes, honey

Aroma (Wet Aroma): Berries, floral, buttery, vanilla, citrus

Flavor: Juicy sweetness, refined non-aggressive acidity, excellent clarity, bergamot, honey, citrus, spices, floral notes, berries, tea-like notes, cherry, delicate aftertaste, persistent aroma, classic Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha flavor profile.

Taste Description: Jasmine floral notes, citrus, tea-like aromatics, honey, berries, vanilla, bright acidity! The Flower Butterfly, containing Geisha variety, is an exceptionally high-value specialty coffee bean!

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