Dark Matter Coffee – 12 Oz Bag – Janis Joplin (BG-New)

We’re releasing a collaboration to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Janis Joplin’s first live performance in 1966! We connected with these folks a few years ago through the collaboration we did with Parliament Funkadelic ft. George Clinton, and are excited to be working together again with another iconic musician. There are gallery shows this month in both LA and NYC featuring rare, archival photographs of Janis Joplin taken by Ray Andersen, licensed through ©Fantality Corporation.

For this blend, we wanted to create somewhat of a throwback style blend, using a little more roast to capture a profile that we might imagine being brewed up in a 1960’s coffee house in San Francisco. We felt that Santa Barbara, a washed coffee from Colombia, would be a fun one for this because even with more heat and time added to the roast, there is still some complexity that peeks through. We paired this with a newly landed washed Sarchimor from several of the farms owned by the Pacas Family at Cafe Tuxpal, an expression we haven’t seen from them, as we typically see this coffee being processed as a natural. These Sarchimor cherries were harvested from different farms they have in the Santa Ana region and processed at their central mill, with this washed expression creating a cup that has a baking spice, brown sugar-like profile, adding a good amount of sweetness to the blend! Here’s the breakdown:

Country: Colombia
Farm: Santa Barbara
Cultivar: Mixed
Process: Washed

Country: El Salvador
Mill: Cafe Tuxpal
Cultivar: Sarchimor
Process: Washed

Tastes like Chocolate Covered Cherry, Roasted Almonds and Molasses