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Clyde Steamer Espresso Blend

Clyde Steamer Espresso Blend

£10.50

Clyde Steamer Espresso Blend

£10.50
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Fruit
Chocolate
Rich

Our award-winning house espresso blend delivers a full-bodied coffee with bags of character. This blend is seasonally changing, but always delivers rich chocolate and nutty flavours.

Product variants:

Clyde Steamer Espresso Blend
Clyde Steamer Espresso Blend - 6 months (prepaid)
Clyde Steamer Espresso Blend - 12 months (prepaid)
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Description

Clyde Steamer is a full bodied blend for espresso and is perfect paired with steamed milk. Its name is a nod to the paddle steamers that used to bring holidaymakers ‘doon the watter’ to Argyll.


Please note that images are representative of packaging, and may not represent the current blend of Clyde Steamer, which changes seasonally, whilst maintaining the flavour profile you love. The current composition of this blend is provided in the information below. 

Brazil Fazenda Vila Boa

Farm:

Vila Boa

Processing:

Natural

Owner:

Monica Borges de Sousa

Region:

Campos da Vertentes, Sul de Minas

Varietal(s):

Yellow Bourbon

Altitude:

1,150 metres above sea level

Town:

Carmo da Mata

Founded in 1988, after former psychologist, Monica Borges de Sousa inherited 90 hectares of farmland from her father, Fazenda Vila Boa is located in the region known locally as Vertentes, as it forms a border between two important basins in Brazil: the Grande River Basin, which runs to the south, and the São Francisco River Basin, which runs to the northeast. Now certified carbon neutral, Monica continues to push Fazenda Vila Boa forward, revolutionising production techniques for the future of coffee. In order to produce such high quality coffee, Fazenda Vila Boa follows a strict set of standards. The soil and leaves are regularly analysed at the lab for possible deficiencies, with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, carefully applied three times a year in the recommended dosages. The team at Fazenda Vila Boa also make sure to renovate 10% of the estate’s coffee trees each year, helping to keep their crop productive. As well as renovation, Fazenda Vila Boa looks to expand its coffee crop by between 8-10% each year, meaning nearly a fifth of the farm is always under some form of renovation.

Brazil Nova Blend

Farm:

Smallholdings

Processing:

Natural

Owner:

Smallholder farmers

Region:

Sul de Minas

Varietal(s):

Various

Altitude:

Minimum 900 metres above sea level

Town:

Various

Named for traditional Bossa Nova music, this is our first blend supplied by Bossa coffee. With notes of Toblerone, it's serving the chocolate and nut notes, and creamy mouthfeel that you're looking for in your espresso.

Uganda Mount Elgon Gibuzale

Farm:

Smallholdings averaging 1 hectare each

Processing:

Washed

Owner:

1,328 smallholder farmers

Region:

Mount Elgon Region, Eastern Uganda

Varietal(s):

SL14, SL28

Altitude:

1,700 to 2,200 metres above sea level

Town:

Bulambuli District, Buginyanya Sub-County

Bordering Kenya, the slopes of Mt. Elgon in eastern Uganda are ideally suited to the production of high quality specialty coffee, and Kyagalanyi Coffee Company has tapped into this budding potential, making it possible for smallholders to participate in specialty markets. Kyagalanyi operate three sustainable Arabica washing stations in Uganda, of which the largest, highest and most remote is Gibuzale. Situated at 1,900 metres above sea level, Gibuzale serves 1,328 smallholder producers, offering state of the art wet mill facilities as an alternative to pulping cherries by hand at home. This offers greater control over processing, protects the fresh crop from the often unreliable weather conditions, and takes a degree of manual labour away from the growers. Beyond this, Kyagalanyi have invested in training and learning tools to help farmers improve their agricultural and land-management practices, as well as educating them on better stewardship of the environment, to the point that they are the first African coffee company to have been awarded a Rainforest Alliance Sustainable Standard Setter Award.
Roaster's Notes Clyde Steamer
We love the challenge of continually tweaking and elevating our house espresso blend and, right now, it’s up there with our best. We've tweaked our roast profile to make the most of the sweet creaminess of the Brazil Fazenda Vila Boa, to compliment the chocolate and nut of the Brazil Nova Blend. We went lighter with Uganda's Mount Elgon Gibuzale to give juicy fruit notes and acidity, to cut through the milk and give your brew a bit of zing.
About Brazil
Smuggled into Brazil in 1727 by a Portuguese soldier, after seducing a Governor's wife in French Guiana, around 40% of all coffee in the world is produced in Brazil - around 3.7 million metric tons annually - making it the powerhouse of world coffee production.

Typically, Brazil naturally processes its coffee, but has recently started to experiment with washed and pulped lots.

Brazilian coffees are usually associated with sweet caramel and chocolate notes, big bodies, and a relatively low acidity.
About Uganda
Uganda is one of the few countries with indigenous coffee, with native varieties of Robusta growing wild in the rainforests flanking Lake Victoria.

Arabica was introduced at the start of the 20th century and, despite devaluation of coffee in the 1980s, Uganda is poised to produce ever better specialty grade Arabica.

The main harvest of Kent, Typica, SL-14 and SL-28 varieties takes places between October and March, with a second, fly crop from April to August.

Expect a dark fruit sweetness and clean finish.

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