Small Talk

Roast - Filter + Espresso
Style/Profile - Balanced
Structure - Balanced
Region - Rwanda (Rotating)

How do we feel about this coffee?
It feels deeply sweet, polite, and uncontroversial like dried apricots, caramel and a roasted almond dark chocolate bar shared over a neighbourly chat about good old days and the weather.

Coffee Story
I know I’m not speaking for everyone here, but with all the latest innovations in double anaerobic, co-fermentations, natural, black honey, yeast-inoculated specialty coffee, sometimes all I want is a really, really good medium roast. Nothing too fancy, just a coffee that’s polite, uncontroversial and fits any everyday occasion you can throw at it!!! Am I asking for too much? I don’t think so, so that's why we’ve developed the newest innovation in specialty coffee roasting…Small Talk…a medium roasted coffee!!

Small talk’s a medium roast that’ll always be there for you to fall back on. On the menu every day, no matter your mood or the weather, there will always be a fresh, seasonally sourced coffee with a classic, washed, old-fashioned profile that will taste well, like the classic, politely medium-roasted drip coffee you’ve been longing for, roasted to a perfect 220 degrees celsius right smack dag in the gosh darn uncontroversial middle. Heck, where else would you rather be!! Make it how you want, drink it how you want, Make Small Talk!

Built on our love of a classic medium roast drip coffee, this coffee is sweet, polite, and uncontroversial! Small Talk typically features a fresh, in-season single-origin washed regional blend of coffees from one of our favourite coffee origins. This means it's open to a wide range of flavours, as long as they have a politely sweet character.

The inaugural lot is a Red Bourbon from our inspiring friends at Semilla Coffee and Emmanuel Rustaria's Baho Coffee Network. After 15 years of working as a coffee producer, Emmanuel Rusatira and his family decided to build their washing stations in East Africa with a commitment to quality, traceability and sustainability. This regional blend, which collects coffee cherry from over 1500 farmers in the surrounding area, employs over 200 people during the peak of the season. As with all his mills, Emmanuel pays farmers prices for cherry that can be up to 80% over the national farmgate price set in Rwanda to incentivize producers to choose this station.

Origin Details
Region: Northern Province, Rwanda (Rotating)
Farm: Various (Rotating)
Variety: Various (Rotating)
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1550 to 1900 MASL
Producer: Various (Rotating)

Brewing Recipes
Drip | 16g: 1g | 20g coffee | 320g water | 3 min ( V60)
Immersion | 15g: 1g
Espresso | 2g: 1g | 18g coffee | 39g beverage | 27 seconds
Peak Rest time: 5 to 40 days off roast