Papua New Guinea Simbu

The Simbu Province (also known as Chimbu) where this coffee came from is in the Eastern Highlands province, which is where the best Papua New Guinea coffee tends to comes from. All things considered, it's a great value. It's sorted to be just the A sized beans which makes it more consistent for roasting. 

I roast this bean dark. On the light side, JUST out of the first cracks, you have a smooth, savory, creamy mug. Think papaya with an almost broth-like undertone. But there's some earthiness to it that ruins the mug for me. On the opposite spectrum, you can roast it like a dark Sumatra giving it 30 seconds into the 2nd cracks to get a great dark roast. The middle roasts are empty and flat. Not defective, just boring -- nothing that makes you want a refill.

US Arrival: January 2025