Caramel, white flowers, and light body
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Blue Turaco is a clean, delicate, and elegant specialty coffee from Uganda, with notes of caramel and white flowers and a light, juicy body. It comes from the slopes of Mount Elgon, in eastern Uganda, where smallholder farmers grow Arabica coffee between 1,400 and 2,200 meters above sea level.
Its washed process offers us a defined and balanced cup, in which we find a clean sweetness of caramel accompanied by a delicate floral character. It is a coffee designed for those who seek clarity and elegance over intensity.
At Artisan Coffee Roasters, we roast it with an Omniroast profile. It works especially well for filter methods and also allows for the preparation of modern espressos that are lighter, sweeter, and more aromatic. It is available as whole bean or ground coffee depending on your brewing method.
Blue Turaco is a coffee with a clean, delicate, and floral profile. The most recognizable note is a soft caramel sweetness, accompanied by hints of white flowers and a light, juicy mouthfeel.
Its acidity is medium and defined, but it does not dominate the cup. The result is elegant and easy to drink, with a clean finish and moderate intensity.
It is precisely this combination of sweetness, cleanliness, and lightness that sets Blue Turaco apart from other, more explosive or fermentative African coffees.
Although we roast it with an Omniroast profile, we especially recommend Blue Turaco for filter methods.
In a V60, Orea, AeroPress, or Chemex, we can particularly appreciate its cleanliness, floral notes, and caramel character.
For espresso, we recommend using a modern recipe, seeking a clean extraction and a slightly longer ratio that allows its aromatic character to be preserved, preventing its delicacy from being hidden behind excessive concentration.
In a stovetop moka pot, you will get a more intense version, with caramel taking center stage.
We would not define it as a coffee with particularly intense acidity. It has a medium, clean, and direct acidity that provides liveliness without becoming the protagonist of the cup.
Its character is more defined by the combination of caramel, white flowers, cleanliness, and a light body.
It can be a good choice for someone looking to start discovering more delicate and aromatic African coffees without jumping directly into extremely fruity or fermentative profiles.
You can buy Blue Turaco as whole bean or ground coffee. If you have a grinder, we recommend buying it as whole bean and grinding only the amount you are going to use right before preparing your coffee.
In a coffee that is as particularly delicate and aromatic as this one, grinding just before brewing helps better preserve the aromas we want to find in the cup.
If you don't have a grinder, you can select the ground coffee option and we will prepare a grind suitable for your extraction method.
Blue Turaco is born on Mount Elgon, in eastern Uganda, a massive volcanic mountain located on the border between Uganda and Kenya.
Its slopes encompass different altitudes, temperatures, and ecosystems. In this batch, the coffee comes from smallholder farmers located between approximately 1,400 and 2,200 meters above sea level.
The mountain rises up to 4,321 meters and is home to montane forests and high-altitude ecosystems with an extraordinary diversity of flora and fauna.
It is a landscape particularly appropriate for representing one of the ideas we want to convey with this new Artisan collection: coffee is not born in isolation. It is part of an ecosystem.
Mountain Harvest began its project in 2017 with the goal of challenging some of the stereotypes historically associated with Ugandan coffee and demonstrating the potential of its smallholder farmers.
A fundamental part of their work consists of bringing training, infrastructure, and better processing systems to the farmers.
Traditionally, much of Ugandan coffee is processed individually on small farms, which can lead to significant differences between lots. Mountain Harvest has developed community-managed processing stations and more controlled drying and storage systems to achieve cleaner, more stable, and more consistent coffees.
The result in Blue Turaco is precisely what we were looking for in this lot: clarity, balance, and cleanliness.
Mountain Harvest's work goes beyond coffee processing. Their program with smallholder farmers incorporates initiatives for income diversification, financial education, regenerative agriculture, biodiversity, and infrastructure improvement.
Their programs include the introduction of beehives, avocado and macadamia trees, companion crops, and training on composting, biodiversity, cherry harvesting, and organic production.
It is a vision that we especially share at Artisan: improving a coffee shouldn't mean looking only at the cup, but also understanding and caring for the human and natural system that exists behind it.
Blue Turaco is a washed coffee. In this type of processing, after the cherries are selected and pulped, the mucilage surrounding the seed is removed before the final drying process.
Compared to processes that seek to enhance very expressive fermentations, the goal here is different: to favor a cup in which we can clearly recognize the character of the coffee and maintain a clean, stable, and defined profile.
In Blue Turaco, that cleanliness allows caramel and white flowers to appear with particular clarity, accompanied by a light body and a juicy texture.
This lot brings together three varieties of Arabica coffee: Nyasaland, SL14, and SL28.
Nyasaland is part of the history of Arabica cultivation in Uganda, while the SL selections are closely linked to the development of coffee in East Africa.
The combination of varieties, altitudes, and smallholder farmers helps build a community lot in which we seek balance and consistency without losing the identity of Mount Elgon.
Each coffee in our collection is accompanied by a bird that helps us discover the nature that exists behind its origin. For this Ugandan coffee, we have chosen the Great Blue Turaco (Corythaeola cristata), known for its spectacular blue-green plumage and its close relationship with African tropical forests.
Unlike our Pitta, here we find an especially beautiful connection with the world of coffee: turacos are fundamentally frugivorous birds.
They move through the trees looking for fruit and are part of the natural relationships that allow forests to regenerate. By consuming fruits and transporting their seeds, frugivorous birds participate in seed dispersal processes that help maintain the plant diversity of the forest.
We are not claiming that this turaco is the one who selects the Blue Turaco cherries. The connection we want to tell is broader: a bird that observes the forest through its fruits and a coffee whose quality begins precisely with the selection of the fruit.
There is something especially interesting in the contrast.
The Great Blue Turaco is a bird of spectacular appearance: large, colorful, and impossible to mistake. However, the coffee that bears its name does not seek to attract attention through intensity or extreme fermentations.
Its beauty is in its elegance.
Caramel, white flowers, light body, and a clean cup. An apparently simple profile that reveals its details when we pay attention, in the same way that the forest discovers colors, sounds, and movements that initially remain hidden.
And we find another connection in the fruit. Turacos seek fruits as a fundamental part of their diet; producers seek ripe cherries as the starting point for a quality coffee.
Two different ways of relating to the same natural principle: recognizing the right moment of the fruit.
Mount Elgon is home to an extraordinary diversity of birds and other animals. Its forests, montane zones, and high-altitude ecosystems remind us that behind every coffee there is much more than just a plantation.
That is why birds become the natural artisans of Artisan. Some select fruits, others disperse seeds, control insect populations, or simply need forests and diverse landscapes to survive.
We do not mean to say that birds produce our coffee. We want to remember something much more important: an exceptional coffee begins in an ecosystem capable of being alive.
At Artisan Coffee Roasters, we roast Blue Turaco in Malaga with an Omniroast profile, seeking to preserve the cleanliness of the washed process and develop its sweetness without hiding its floral character.
The result is a light, clean, and elegant cup, especially interesting for those who enjoy discovering the small nuances of coffee.
Blue Turaco combines caramel, white flowers, and a light body. A coffee from the slopes of Mount Elgon inspired by the colors and biodiversity of Uganda's forests.
Siempre había comprado café del supermercado y quería probar eso del café de especialidad. La diferencia se nota muchísimo. Lo que más me ha gustado del pack es poder probar varios cafés y descubrir cuál encaja más conmigo.
No tengo una cafetera profesional ni entiendo demasiado de café. Lo preparo en mi cafetera italiana de toda la vida y está espectacular. Cada bolsa tiene un sabor diferente y se nota muchísimo comparado con el café que tomaba antes.
Llevo tiempo tomando café de especialidad y me ha sorprendido bastante el pack. Hay perfiles diferentes y eso hace que sea divertido ir cambiando de café. El Brasil Santa Cecilia me ha encantado especialmente.
Pensaba que lo del café de especialidad era un poco marketing, pero después de probar estos cafés entiendo perfectamente por qué la gente habla tanto de ello. Tiene mucho más aroma y encuentras sabores que nunca había notado en un café.
Lo mejor es poder comparar unos con otros. Preparándolos en V60 se aprecian muchísimo las diferencias entre cada origen y perfil. Una selección muy buena tanto para descubrir cafés nuevos como para regalar.
Lo compré porque quería dejar las cápsulas y probar algo mejor. No tenía ni idea de qué café elegir, así que este pack me pareció la forma más fácil de empezar. Después de probarlos tengo claro que no vuelvo al café de antes.
Una forma sencilla de empezar a descubrir todo lo que puede ofrecer un buen café.
Every day from Monday to Friday we prepare orders for our transport agency to pick them up at 2pm. If we have all the coffees you have ordered and they are roasted, we will send them that same day. Otherwise we will do everything possible to get it out the next day. Our transport agency assures us of deliveries in 24-48 hours.
Example 1:
If you place the order on Sunday afternoon. Normally, if we have roasted all the coffees that you have ordered from us, on Monday morning we will prepare all the orders for the weekend and that Monday at 2:00 p.m. your order will already be on its way, in the hands of our agency. On many occasions it will be delivered the next day, Tuesday before 7pm, but on other occasions you will have to wait until Wednesday to receive your order. For your peace of mind, you will normally receive an email with which you can track it.
Example 2) worst case
If you place an order on Friday at noon, the normal thing is that we will not have time to prepare it and that the agency will not be able to pick it up until Monday at 2 p.m., and it may be that, as in example 1) your order will not arrive until Tuesday or Wednesday before 7 p.m.
Example 3) Best case
If you place your order early on a Tuesday, it is likely (if we have all your coffees roasted) that your order will leave on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. and if the agency delivers it to you in less than 24 hours, you will have your coffee on Wednesday before 7:00 p.m.
Our transport agency, once it has received and processed the package, will send you an email with the tracking number so that you can manage any changes directly with them.
We want you to order coffee from us periodically and to have direct contact with you. For this reason we have created our coffee lovers club, the Artisan Coffee Club , and for the members of this club we will assume the Shipping Costs , of course it is an effort on our part. But we are sure that in this way we will become your trusted coffee supplier and that you will be the first to receive our communications with enthusiasm.
A specialty coffee is characterized by using high-quality beans that are grown in optimal conditions and harvested and processed with care.
This type of coffee is scored by certified cuppers and scores above 80 on the 100-point scale of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA).
Although we at Artisan Coffee purchase the vast majority of our coffees above 85 SCA points.
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This information has little to do with what you usually find in supermarkets, and the only information you will have is whether it is natural roasted, blended or roasted (we talk about this below in another question).
When we talk about processes there are basically 3 types:
The degree of roast refers to how much a coffee bean has been roasted. Grades range from light roast, which retains many of the bean's natural flavors, to dark roast, which has a more roasted flavor and less of the bean's original flavors. In specialty coffee, the roast is carefully selected to highlight the unique flavors and characteristics of each bean.
In general, we apply a medium roast to our coffees, except in certain cases when we will apply a medium-low roast so as not to lose those delicate notes that tend to disappear with larger roasts.
We roast each coffee in a completely different way, and in our control tastings we define whether that coffee needs a different roast than the one we have done in order to further enhance its flavor notes.
All our coffees are Arabica and are roasted naturally , and in no case do we use roasting.
We only apply heat and do not add any extra ingredients, like roasting does, which adds sugar.
Many specialty coffee producers practice sustainable growing methods that protect the environment. This may include using shade to protect coffee plants and conserve biodiversity, water conservation through efficient irrigation systems, and composting coffee waste. Additionally, many specialty coffee producers receive a fair price for their product, allowing them to invest in sustainable agricultural practices.
In addition, our coffee bags are part of a CO2 compensation project.