Mamy, Espresso from Guinea

Mamy - Green Coffee Info

How We Would Prepare Mamy

The Mamy Espresso requires a relatively fine grind. If you're used to our Apas Espresso, for example, you'll need a significantly finer grind setting on your grinder for Mamy.

Why Does Mamy Taste the Way It Does?

The coffee is very low in acidity - on one hand because it's a 100% Robusta coffee, on the other hand because it was grown at approximately 600m above sea level. The very clean toffee note and the almost mild, classic aromas of roasted nuts and a touch of wood come from the variety itself, but only because the coffee was sorted with extraordinary precision. The honey process, which involves fermentation with the mucilage around the coffee bean, gives the coffee its soft, almost buttery texture.

Tell Me More About Mamy Espresso

Mamy Dioubaté is a pioneer. Born in Guinea, he earned his doctorate in Germany and later rediscovered his native homeland. The region around Macenta fascinated him. In the UNESCO-protected rainforest region around Macenta, coffee has been grown for a long time, but lacking direct market access, insufficient feedback from buyers, and poor equipment made coffee production never really attractive for local people. Yet the conditions there are extremely favorable for high-quality specialty or fine Robusta. Mamy and Relika dedicate their energy to building this still young project and have big plans.

Why Did We Buy Mamy?

When Macenta Beans sought support in 2020 through crowdfunding for a processing station, we participated. Since then we've been in contact with Mamy and Relika, who are advancing their projects in a region with many challenges and are able to reach more and more producers.

How Do We Roast This Coffee?

As a 20kg batch on our 30kg roaster. We normally roast our darker coffees at full capacity of 30kg, but this coffee is very hard - Canephoras have hard cell walls and require a lot of heat for faster roasting. So we roast the coffee until just before the first crack with 70% energy, which is very high. We roast the coffee for a total of 13:30 minutes to the same end temperature as our APAS. The roast level is therefore similar, but the color is lighter because Canephoras don't get as dark as Arabicas at the same temperature.

Shipping Also Available as Coffee Letter

All our coffees can be ordered in the form of a coffee letter. This reduces the shipping cost for 250g coffee from CHF 8.50 to CHF 2.50. It's treated like a regular letter and lands in your mailbox.

At checkout you can choose between Coffee Letter, A-Post, and B-Post options.

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