News & Notes For October

What's Happening at the George Howell Coffee Company

 

October 16th , 2008

 

Special Offer!


Three of our Top Rated Coffees are on sale through the end of October!

Through the end of the month we invite you to enjoy three of our top rated coffees, featured in the Coffee Review, at a special savings!

El Injerto, Huehuetenango, Guatemala

New 2008 crop. The cup is very structured with dazzling razor-fine acidity, honeyed citrus, red currant, other berry notes and a touch of anise. Full bodied. 100% Bourbon variety.
On Sale for $12.95, regularly $14.95.
Click here to order!

Kangocho, Nyeri, Kenya

What makes this lot of Kangocho so special are its sumptuous Reserve Webmouthfeel and its sweet blueberry notes, melding so harmoniously with the classic grand Kenya riot of blackberry and black currant flavors.
On Sale for $13.95, regularly $15.95. (either our Full Flavor Roast, or slightly Darker Profiles!)
Click here to order!

Sumatra Mandheling, South Italian Espresso Roast

This coffee produces massive crema and jumps out with an intense perfume of roasted almonds, followed with a burst of blueberry embedded in dense bitter-sweet chocolate, and ends with a smooth, sweet creamy finish.
On Sale for $12.95, regularly $14.95.
Click here to order!

To see all of our current offerings rated in the Coffee Review, please click here.

Hurry! Sale ends Friday, October 31st 2008.
(Orders for this sale must be received by 8:00am Eastern Time on October 31st 2008.)

 

 

 

Upcoming Limited Edition Roasts


Another Premiere: 2008 El Salvador Cup of Excellence Winner La Lainez to be roasted this Monday, October 20th.

La Lainez is a forty acre farm at 5,000 feet elevation. ItReserve Web produces a little over 7,000 lbs of coffee per year, not much when commodity prices are a little over a dollar per pound. It is the first time this farm competes in the Cup of Excellence, in search of recognition. This coffee really struck me as having a particularly sweet acidity, with finely layered caramelized apple, ripe raspberry and light citrus flavors and a clean, sweetly lingering aftertaste.
Click here to order or call (866) GHH-JAVA.

 

 

Roasting on Mondays -
La Esperanza, Huila, Colombia

La Esperanza, is a jammy ripe dark plum saturated coffee, layered with tropical fruits and streaks of honeyed raw sugar cane. It is among the finest of any Colombian I have had, an exemplary coffee revealing a peak expression of Colombian terroir. We will offer this coffee as a special roast only on Mondays. Make sure to order yours ahead of time!
Click here to order or call (866) GHH-JAVA.

Coming Soon: Our offerings from this year's El Salvador Cup of Excellence!

Please note:
When ordering our Limited Edition Coffees, orders must be placed by 8:00 am Eastern time on the day they are scheduled to be roasted. Thanks!

 

 

 

More October Sale Coffees!

Alejandro Ahumado's Boca Chica, Nariño, Colombia

Daterra ReserveBoca Chica is a five acre farm at 6,000 feet elevation and is planted entirely with the Caturra cultivar. The photo was taken just after the havest.

Boca Chica has the classic Nariño character: high-grown black tea notes melding with light tropical fruits and a trace of wintergreen; full bodied and rich aroma. We roast this coffee quite lightly to capture all its delicate flavors.

Regularly $16.95 per 12 ounces. Now $14.95 through October. Click here to order.

 

 

 

 

 

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Konga Cooperative
Available in both our Full Flavor Roast and North Italian Espresso Roast.

Kangocho Web Yirgacheffe is one of the great aromatic coffees of the world. The scientist- quality coffee pioneer Ernesto Illy (Illy Coffee) stated at the SCAA Conference in Boston, 2003 that the coffee of this region shared an aromatic component found in Darjeeling tea and Chanel #5.

This particular lot from the Konga Cooperative was the best we cupped last year. It is refined and delicate and very aromatic, having notes of Darjeeling tea, sweet lemon and a hint of ginger. Its aromatics pair ecstatically with dark chocolates when taken black with no milk or sweetener. Many of our cafe and restaurant clients have called our Yirgacheffe Espresso our signature coffee.

The Konga Cooperative has 1683 farmers of which 133 are female heads of family. The average size of a farm is 1.25 acres on which coffee and various foods for the local market are grown. Yirgacheffe is amazingly lush with vegetation. The coffees are grown at over 6,000 feet in altitude.

Full Flavor or North Italian Style Espresso Roast.
now $12.95 through October. Click here to order.

 

 

 

Daterra North Italian Espresso Roast, Cerrado, Brazil

A "light" dark roast in the tradition of Northern Italy (Milan - Reserve WebTrieste). Terroir has carefully blended several Daterra Farm varieties to produce this exceptionally sweet, full bodied coffee.

As an espresso, it has a floral, cocoa- almond aroma. The cup is elegant, smooth, of one piece from first contact to aftertaste. It is honey textured, extra-sweet and lively, with notes of mellow clean fruit, chocolate, nuts and refined butter-marzipan. Other brewing methods produce a rich very mellow, low acid cup with complex nutty-chocolate flavors.

Regularly $14.95 per 12 ounces, now $12.95 through October. Click here to order.