Single Origin Peaberry From Doi Chaang Coffee Review

The Drink: Single Origin Peaberry From Doi Chaang Coffee
Type: Whole Bean Peaberry
Overall Rating: Four Out Of Five Coffee Mugs

Doi Chaang’s Single Origin Peaberry is a very unique type of coffee, the type that I don’t see very often. I’ve only sampled peaberry coffee a handful of times and I’ve never tasted coffee from Thailand before. When Doi Chaang Coffee sent me a half pound of it to review, I couldn’t wait to rip open the bag and grind up some beans for the french press.

But first, a little bit of background. A coffee cherry usually produces two flat sided beans, however there’s times when the cherry only makes one oval shaped bean, the rare bean is called a peaberry. The peaberry is smaller but has a higher concentrated flavor.

The Doi Chaang Coffee Company is a unique partnership between the Akha hillside tribe of Doi Chaang Village, located in the Chiang Rai Province of Northern Thailand, and a small Canadian group of coffee enthusiasts. The Thai farming family co-operative cultivate and process 100% Arabica, organic, single-origin coffee beans while the Canadian experts roast, market and distribute the coffee. The literal translation of “Doi Chaang” is Elephant Mountain which describes the imposing shape of the hills rising behind Doi Chaang Village.

But now the important part – the review!

The Doi Chaang Peaberry earned an elite 91 score on the Coffee Review scale, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to get a free pass at Daily Shot Of Coffee.

However, right from the first sniff, I knew I was going to like this coffee. It had a pleasant, dark roast, almost tobacco like aroma. Mixed in were earthy, cherry and chocolate scents.

The taste was smooth and my tongue loved it from the first sip. It had a serious coffee taste. It wasn’t bitter, but it wasn’t overly sweet either. It started with a distinctive dark roast flavor, followed up by a tiny fruit explosion on the end. Mixed into the flavor was subtle hints of a dark cherry and a woody taste.

It was a dark roast, but the kind of coffee that even a medium to light coffee drinker like myself could like because of all of the flavors in it.

Overall, a good coffee. It earned a well above average rating of four out of five coffee mugs. At twenty dollars for a pound of it, it’s probably not an every day coffee, but I strongly suggest trying it out

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