Dory Coffee Roasters
Ethiopia Anaerobic
Roaster Location: | Taipei, Taiwan |
Coffee Origin: | Sidamo (also Sidama), Ethiopia |
Roast Level: | Medium-Light |
Agtron: | 56/74 |
Est. Price: | NT $500/230 grams |
Review Date: | November 2019 |
Aroma: | 9 |
Acidity/Structure: | 8 |
Body: | 9 |
Flavor: | 9 |
Aftertaste: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
Intense, original, sweet-spicy. Walnut, gardenia, clove, sandalwood, ripe lemon, a hint of yogurt-like tartness in aroma and cup. Balanced and sweetly pungent in structure. A clove-toned spice lifts and invigorates an otherwise heavyish finish.
Notes
This coffee tied for second-highest rating in a cupping of coffees produced using reduced oxygen (“anaerobic”) processing methods for Coffee Review’s November 2019 tasting report. Anaerobic processing in this case means this Ethiopia coffee was fermented twice in a sealed oxygen-evacuated tank, first in the whole fruit for two days, then after removal of skin and fruit pulp for two more days. Dory Coffee Roasters is a Taipei-based nano-roaster of specialty coffee. For more information, visit https://www.facebook.com/dorycoffee99/.
Bottom Line
Drink it for its original yet subtly expressed embodiment of the peculiarly intriguingly sweet-tart genius of anaerobic or lactic acid fermentation.
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This review originally appeared in the November, 2019 tasting report: Anaerobic Fermentation and Other Palate-Bending Processing Experiments