Custard Cream Nicaragua
Custard Cream Nicaragua
Custard Cream Nicaragua
Custard Cream Nicaragua Custard Cream Nicaragua Custard Cream Nicaragua

Custard Cream Nicaragua

£9.99

Cup of Excellence award-winning coffee from the tropical highlands of northern-central Nicaragua. A stonker for all brew methods but challenging for espresso due to being a high-grown light roast.

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Origin: Nicaragua

Certifications: SHG. Rainforest Alliance. Direct Trade. Cup of Excellence

SCA Score: 86

Roast: Light

Suitable for: 
Pour over
Inverted aeropress
Espresso (challenging)

Varietal: Yellow Catuai, Red Catuai, Caturra.

Process: Washed

Various fruity notes & an increased toffee and caramel sweetness as it cools. Lingering aftertaste of vanilla and caramel reminiscent of custard creams!

This a stonking, high-scoring & cup of excellence awarded single origin coffee grown in the fertile volcanic soil of the La Bastilla Estate, in the lush tropical paradise of the Cerro Datanli El Diablo Nature Reserve in Jinotega, northern-central Nicaragua.

The Speciality Coffee Association score of this coffee bean is 86, and it is also a Cup of Excellence winning coffee. It's Rainforest Alliance certified, and it's a direct trade coffee which means it's purchased directly from the farmer.

Please note, this is a bean we'd recommend for pour over and inverted aeropress.

It's not recommended for cafetiere, or for espresso for standard espresso setups. If you're accustomed to pulling shots of espresso with lighter roasts, however, then this coffee can be very enjoyable as espresso when well extracted.

How it Tastes

This is a very high quality coffee, with a broad range of both interesting and satisfying flavour notes, the most discernible of which for me is custard creams.

It's important to note if you're new to coffee tasting, that when we're talking about taste notes, we're talking about fairly subtle flavours, and it's very subjective.

Don't worry too much if you don't agree with my particular taste descriptors, it's very common for people to not concur exactly with taste notes on coffee, as taste is a subjective thing.

The important thing is, do you enjoy it? If so, great, put it on subscription to make sure you don’t run out, and save 15% too :-). If not, each to their own, we have lots of other lovely coffees for you to try.

La Bastilla Farm

La Bastilla coffee farm is located around 20 kilometers from Jinotega, in the stunning tropical paradise of the Cerro Datanli El Diablo Nature Reserve, an extremely important biodiverse protected habitat.

The farm is situated in a unique microclimate, with an abundance of natural shade-providing trees, volcanic soil and a natural biodiversity which results in exceptional quality coffee with distinctive qualities.

La Bastilla became Rainforest Alliance certified in 2003 and maintains an ongoing program for continuous improvement.

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Carl
Amazing

I'm still relatively new to non-commodity coffee. One of the coffee works blog posts really helped to explain different roasts (and what was actually important when it comes to picking coffee!) - I put in an order for a range of beans and worked my way through them from darkest roast to lightest roast. I'm so glad I did it that way, as it helped me appreciate the flavours and differences so much more. I used to be a "if it's not a heavy roast, i'm not interested" person - but this changed my coffee life! This bean and light roast are full of flavours that really showed me how much more there is and can be to coffee. I've tried a lot more beans since I first had this, but this is still a massive LOVE from me. Can't recommend it enough!

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Mr I.F.
Choc & Nut Columbia

I recently purchased these beans. Although I prefer the lighter, fruitier beans, these Choc & and Nut Columbia make the perfect Cappuccino.
Thanks
Iain.

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Thomas T.
Lovely

Lovely creaminess to it really hits the spot as a milk based drink. Will be having more of it soon.

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Scott B.
Custard Cream Nicaragua

New to beans me, I liked the chocolate brownie, and this was a close second so far, many more to sample still…

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john e.
absolutely gorgeous

as title says this blend is gorgeous both myself and the wife drink it daily even carers love a cup daily we all highly recommend this blend 2nd time buying 5 stars also recommend chocolate brownie blend

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