Honey, Plum, Orange
Sugar Glider Espresso
$17
Sugar Glider, our syrupy-sweet seasonal espresso named for our favorite soaring, sap-seeking marsupial, is back! This year’s Sugar Glider blend is shot through with Bourbon genetics, an elegant variety celebrated for its natural sweetness. Those hallmark Bourbon flavors express themselves differently in each of the coffees that make up the blend.
The details
- Country Burundi
- Producer smallholder growers
- Region Kayanza
- Elevation Range 1750 m
- Processing Method Washed
- Drying Method raised bed shade-dried
- Harvest June-August 2019
- Direct Trade Partner Since 2016
How To Brew
We recommend your finished espresso should weigh 2.5 times as much as your coffee dose., which provides an excellent total extraction level and maximizes flavor pulled out of the ground coffee. For espresso we recommend a fine grind, setting 1 if you are ordering from Intelligentsiacoffee.com
Recommended Method Espresso Machine
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Weigh Coffee 18g of coffee yields 45g
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Grind Coffee
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Make an even bed of coffee in the portafilter and pull the shot
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Enjoy
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Why We're Different
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Intelligentsia coffee buyers travel year-round working with a network of farmers. From the farm, coffee arrives at the roasting works in Chicago and Los Angeles, where coffee professionals cup, grade, and release over 50 single-origins and blends annually.
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Intelligentsia Direct Trade means partnering with people who obsess about quality as much as we do, and building meaningful relationships with farmers. Today, the Intelligentsia Direct Trade community includes more than 50 partners in 14 countries.
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A quarter-century of obsession with quality, more than 15 years of sourcing great coffee the right way, and an authoritative point of view on how to elevate coffee make Intelligentsia a trusted partner on your coffee journey.
