Monday, September 26, 2011

This Week Recommendation: DOKA ESTATE BREAKFAST BLEND

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Do you love Doka Estate Peaberry AA? Then you will find our Breakfast Blend as a juicy and bright way to start your morning; because it’s our combination of Doka Estate light roast (European), medium roast (French) and our exotic Peaberry.

The coffee is 100% Arabica beans and it has being grown at the slopes of the Poas Volcano Region in Costa Rica´s Central Valley, where through the volcanic soils and the altitude of 4.430 feet above sea level (1.350 m.a.s.l) this coffee exhales the freshness and flavorful of Costa Rican Breakfast.

Breakfast Blend (Light and Medium Roast)
Aroma: crispy orange
Acidity: bright
Body: light and mild
Flavor: clean and tangy

Our recommendation is to enjoy Doka Estate Breakfast Blend next to a Gallo Pinto with your favorite Egg and a plate of fruits.
GALLO PINTO RECIPE (Rice and Beans)1

2 cups of freshly cooked black beans with the
4 cups of cooked rice (better if it is from the day before)    
2 tablespoon of bell pepper, finely chopped
4 tablespoons of onion finely chopped
4 tablespoons of coriander finely chopped
1 clove of garlic finely chopped
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
½ tablespoon of Salsa Lizano
Hot pepper (optional)
Salt as desire or seasoning

Sautee onion and bell pepper in oil for 1 minute in a medium flame then add the beans and cook them for 3 minutes not let them dry. Add the rice mix them together and cook them 3 more minutes, now add the Lizano sauce (or chile picante) and the coriander, mix well, garnish this fresh cilantro or bacon crumbs, if desire top with a little bit or sour cream.

1 Meals a la Tica. Costa Rican Cook Book. Sandy. 2010

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Peaberry

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Peaberry is really a special bean and it can be found in every coffee plant, but at Doka Estate we sort all the beans to find the best Peaberry, then is craft roasted and we send them to you.

How it happens?

During the pollination of the flower usually each cherry develops 2 seeds, where for their positions one side is flat and the other rounded, but when only fertilize one its where the magic stars because it gives space for one bean to concentrate de flavor of two, and the shape changes as oval similar to a pea one of the most distinguish characteristics: a round coffee seed

What you will find in Doka Estate Peaberry cup?

Roast:   Medium
Aroma: Lively and intense
Acidity: bright
Body: medium
Flavor: sweet with lime notes

We encourage you to enjoy the sweetest notes of this particular coffee every day.