Milasu Coffee Beans

The Costa Rican coffee region is known for its innovative processing methods. Honey processing originated here, categorized by varying levels of mucilage retention—such as black honey, red honey, and yellow honey. Additionally, it has evolved to include grape raisin honey processing, where the beans are dried once, fermented, then the pulp is removed but the mucilage retained for a second fermentation. These diverse honey processing techniques have given rise to many uniquely flavored coffee beans.

AndGesha coffee beans have been one of the most notable coffee varieties over the past two decades. They first gained attention at the 2004 Best of Panama (BOP) competition and subsequently became famous for their soaring reputation and price, surpassing other coffee varieties. It’s fair to say it’s an exceptionally high-quality coffee variety.

What unique and exquisite flavors emerge when Costa Rica’s grape raisin honey processing meets the famous Gesha coffee? The Strawberry Candy from the Mirasú region may offer us an answer. Let’s take a look below~

Costa Rican coffee is generally considered one of the best-flavored coffees in Central and South America.The country’s coffee-growing regions boast high altitudes, pleasant temperatures, and fertile soil—an ideal terroir perfectly suited for cultivating Arabica coffee varieties. This has made Costa Rica a major producer of high-quality coffee beans. Even globally renowned coffee chainssuch as Starbucks have included them in their Reserve coffee product lines.

This coffee bean from Front Street comes from the Tarrazú region, one of the high-altitude coffee-growing areas in Costa Rica. Most coffee here is grown under shade. Thanks to the high elevation, the coffee plants are rarely plagued by pests and diseases. The large day-night temperature variations at altitude also help the coffee accumulate nutrients, resulting in sweet and tangy coffee cherries. When processed, these beans often exhibit distinct fruit flavors like citrus.

The Mirasú Estate is a small farm within the Tarrazú region. Its owner is part of the family behind the well-known specialty coffee estate, Hacienda La Esmeralda. Both their experience in coffee cultivation and passion for coffee add a rich backstory to these beans.

The coffee beans produced by the Mirasú Estate are named “Strawberry Candy” in Chinese (a flavor-based name given by Front Street Coffee). They consist of 50% Gesha variety blended with ET47, SL28, and MAICO. The Gesha variety establishes the foundational flavor profile of these beans, while the other premium Arabica varieties enrich them with strawberry and berry-like notes. Coupled with 100% mucilage-retained, zero-water grape raisin honey processing, the sweetness of the coffee is significantly enhanced. The final brewed flavors include: rose, strawberry, raisin, and almond.

This concludes our introduction to the Mirasú Estate coffee beans from Costa Rica, a Central and South American coffee-producing region. This Gesha blend with intense strawberry jam flavors,I wonderif it has captured your heart?