El Salvador Miraflores Coffee: Is It Morning Yet?
Wow! Is it morning yet?
This coffee was fantastic! I am a morning person, I admit it. Miraflores is a morning coffee for morning people. Seriously. If you hate mornings do not drink this before one o clock.
The beans are very oily and dark. The fragrance when the bag was opened totally enveloped the kitchen. And the smell of coffee brewing was fabulous. The coffee, when poured was dark and rich looking. SO far so good, right?
I drank it black. The notes were bright and almost tingly on my tongue. There was no heaviness to it, no lingering aftertaste…Just bright and fresh.
My daughter added cream and sugar to her cup. It took the flavors well, but I thought it lost some of the unique aspects of the black coffee and tasted like really good coffee, not particularly a standout. The flavor was somewhat muddied in the process of adding the cream and sugar.
El Salvadore Miraflores is a single origin coffee, grown high on the Ahuachapan slopes. It is described as having a cocoa flavor and nutty but that seems to me to be a line that is added to many coffees lately.
Smoky, woody, with a moderate acidity. Seriously happy coffee.
The brand I brewed was Archer Farms Reserve Roast, available at Target. It was $7.98 a pound, very reasonable, and very, very good.
I would not serve this with chocolate or heavy desserts. Main courses, grilled meats, eggs and bacon type of breakfasts…or just on it’s own…
Give it a try, and let me know what you think.
Images: (c) Marye Audet, Apronstrings & Simmering Things, personal collection
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