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| Our amazing Bean Market coffee arrives. |
A little while ago SnowCrabNebula was lucky enough to receive a sample selection of coffees from the fantastic new coffee start-up Bean Market.
Bean Market is a Melbourne based outfit that seeks out the best coffee from small batch roasters around the state, packages them according to taste and preference and delivers them direct to your door. We had heard rumblings about them for a while and as such were very keen to try their wares when they reached out to us.
After being added to their delivery system, our coffee arrived promptly and elegantly packaged. The beautiful tan coloured slips that contain the beans reminded me of the great hessian bags that green coffee is shipped about in prior to its being roasted. Each packet also came complete with detailed information about the origin, providence and attributes of the coffee contained, which as a massive coffee nerd I found spectacular.
We were sent three varieties to try:
A high altitude Guatemalan coffee from Rumble Coffee Roasters, a very delicate El Salvadoran variety from The Mailing Room and a light and citrusy Nicaraguan from the Queensberry Pour House.
I tried each variety three ways: in a French press, in my aeropress and run through an espresso machine. I was very satisfied with each cup, and I can say before launching into the details, that this was seriously good coffee. Fresh, delicious and very well chosen.
The Queensberry Pour House Nicaaraguan was perhaps the most interesting of the three. It was citrusy and almost savoury at points and had a very complex flavour. Its not the sort of coffee that would make its way into many mainstream cafes and I think that Bean Market has done its customers a great service in sending it out. Interesting and wonderful, I would buy this one on the regular.
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| Seriously amazing beans. |
Sweet, rich and desert-y, the Guatemalan coffee from Rumble Coffee Roasters really hit the spot. I thoroughly enjoyed its boldness and syrupy sweetness and I think the roast that Bean Market chose really brought out the flavours fantastically well.
Finally, the El Salvadoran coffee from the Mailing Room. I have very many pleasant memories of afternoons spent drinking coffee at the Mailing Room on Mailing Road and I can tell you that the rich, sweet, flavours that came from these beans transported me right back there. This was perhaps my favourite of the lot, and not just because of the memories.
Like independent bottlings of whisky or ebauche movements in watches, independently selecting and curating the products of others tends to either go fantastically well or end up particularly badly.Bean Market lands very comfortably in the 'fantastically well' category. Having been (no pun intended) to several of the cafes and roasters from which they sourced their inputs, I can tell you that they have chosen the very best of the various coffees they offer. Bean Market has a connoisseur's nose and pallet for fine coffee and I doubt very much whether anyone would be disappointed in the brews they extracted from the beans I tried.
I am a convert to Bean Market and look forward to seeing great things from them in the future!
