Day 16: Art on the Snow 🎨❄️
I painted angels in the snow.
Now I'm wet, cold, and disappointed.
Art demands sacrifice.
— Teodor, an artist misunderstood by his contemporaries.
French Calm, Vietnamese Liberica 🇫🇷🇻🇳
Day 16 brings a coffee that perfectly matches the existential musings of a cat lying in wet snow. The French roastery Tanat Coffee is known for its courage in pursuing niche, demanding projects far from the coffee mainstream. Instead of safe choices — exploration. Instead of the obvious — questions. And Liberica? That's a very loudly asked question.
Liberica — The Third Voice in the Coffee Choir 🌱
Liberica is the third, often forgotten, coffee species, standing alongside Arabica and Robusta. It is characterized by large beans, a different chemical structure, and a sensory profile that can surprise even very experienced coffee drinkers. For years treated as a curiosity, today — thanks to projects like this — it returns to the conversation about the future of specialty coffee.
Coffee Details ☕
This particular lot was created in collaboration between Tanat Coffee and the Vietnamese producer 96B Café & Roastery as part of the 96B Liberica Project — an initiative aimed at genuinely elevating the reputation and showcasing the full potential of the Liberica species, long underestimated and misunderstood in the world of specialty coffee.
- Origin: Vietnam (growing regions, including Huong Phung, Huong Hoa province)
- Species: Coffea Liberica (often mistaken for Excelsa – botanically Coffea dewevrei)
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Processing: Yeast Inoculated White Honey
The coffee cherries ferment for a specified period (approx. 120 hours) in anaerobic conditions with the addition of selected yeast cultures, and are then dried using the honey method, retaining part of the mucilage. -
Flavor Profile: white currant, honeysuckle, honey
(notes of white chocolate, red fruits, and stevia also appear) - Body: silky, distinct, very clean
Epilogue of Teodor the Cat 🐈⬛
I'm lying wet. I'm cold. I'm looking at the angel that came out crooked.
But we're drinking Liberica, and suddenly everything makes sense.
Art was fleeting. Coffee — remains.
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