I'm a recent first-time purchaser from Hacea after seeing the clearly well-deserved support from Black City Coffee Roaster.

I picked up a few items, including this coffee. If there were a platonic form for coffee, it would be this one.

I'm completely blown away. It's deep, complex, and undoubtedly chocolatey. It actually matches the description listed on the site (whoever does the tasting is right on). I also picked up some peach when the brew had cooled significantly.

Thank you for the experience,
Jordan

This a super interesting coffee, which has a big fruity flavor/aroma. The folks at Hacea advise being gentle with the heat when roasting -- heed their advice. I found it tough to prolong development after first crack without resulting in a darker final color than I was shooting for. These beans are quite dense, and what moisture there is seemed to escape more rapidly, earlier in the roast. First crack was faint: with less water vapor apparently still escaping during first crack, the rate of rise remained more or less constant after first crack. Regardless of all that, this coffee seems pretty forgiving in the cup -- it held up to a full city roast with more clear fruit than many much lighter Ethiopian coffees I've roasted.

Hands down the best most convenient cupping kit I found online not to mention the best price. Big thanks to the guys at Hecea for this. This saved me a ton of time and money, out employees loved this!

Great instructor and very informative. If i was closer I would have loved taking the rest of the courses. Hacea is now my place to order green beans!!!!!!!

Aricha has been one of my favorites for years now. I am pleased to say that this year is no different, it's still great! Fragrance good, aroma good, bright, green/black tea, black tea after taste, maybe brown sugar but it's not that sweet, rose, green apple, lemon, green grapes. Espresso is fantastic, complex!
Based on this roast (not my best) - https://roast.world/my/roasts/qIXN2H9IrWp0pLzU3WhYi

I’m a big fan of Guatemalan coffees. The interplay between the fruit forward aspect of this one held up with the heavier body, dark chocolate pleasant bittering, and balanced acidity make this one stand out to my palate in a region I already love. Thanks Hacea and the Gomez family for this gem!

I roasted this light and wow do these beans bring forth such chocolate fruit tart taste. It was so good I ordered another round. This was my first time roasting carbonic macerated beans and definitely not my last.

We loved the flavors of this cascara as an iced tea. A friend who is a mixologist was so impressed he developed a new cocktail with cascara as a base.

Unique delicious flavor, would definitely buy again.

Based on this roast on Roast World - https://roast.world/my/roasts/LaFRz82S89CSe8IIkKhiJ
This might be my favorite Guatemala I've tried from Hacea. Guatemala's aren't usually my favorites but this one is scrumptious. It's a nice cup of sweet citrus, orange, with great aroma and fragrance.

Been roasting for the past 3 years and Hacea is the only broker I go through! I can confidently purchase any coffee from them blindly trusting Jared’s palette and great customer service.
You can’t go wrong with there offerings or service!

I haven’t had an Ethiopia like this in a long time! The fruit notes definitely stood out. I should of stayed more on the light roast side ended up pushing it to medium, it was still good. I let it degass for 2 days and OH MY SOUL!!! This was treat!!! Definitely getting this one again!!!

This is a great class to educate yourself on the roasting process and its different phases, in addition to how the processing of the bean at the farm will affect the roast. I'd say the actual application is more applicable to home roasters, however, that took up a small portion at the end of class, so the class was still worth it for me as a commercial roaster. It was really helpful to go through the phases in detail and understand ideal times (proportionally) in each phase to get a well developed (not over or under) roast. It's also worth noting that actual roasting application would be hard to address globally as there are so many factors that affect a roasting process - your machine being one of them. However, this class gives you the foundation to apply the knowledge to perfect your roasts.

I’m a new roaster abs was worried I would screw this up… but WOW! On light roast or medium for espresso, it’s just so packed with dark fruit, berries, chocolate…

I really enjoy this Costa Rica. It's more fruity than expected, but we'll balanced in its flavor profile. WHT stands out to me most though is the velvety mouthful. Mmm