Product Description

Specialty coffees are high quality coffee, produced in special geographic microclimates that give it its unique flavour profile. This coffee is different from normal coffee in terms of cup and visual quality. Speciality coffee has its own distinct taste, imbibing the flavours from its environment.

Underlying this idea is the fundamental premise that specialty coffee beans would always be well prepared, freshly roasted, and properly brewed. This is the craft of the specialty coffee industry that has been evolving slowly.

Specialty coffee begins at the origin of coffee by planting a particular variety into a specific growing region of the world, and includes the care given to the plant through harvest and preparation for export. There are regions that have proved their ability to grow great coffee owing to their attributes like altitude, latitude and soil among others.

The Green Coffee Classification Chart clearly defines specialty coffee in the green bean phase as a coffee that has no defects and has a distinctive character in the cup. The grade just below specialty is labelled as 'premium'.

The premium grade has no primary defects, but does not necessarily evidence a distinctive character. It has to be notably distinct to be graded into a 'specialty coffee'.