Subscriptions – BeanCurious https://beancurious.com Whole Bean Coffee, Subscriptions and Supply Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:11:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://i0.wp.com/beancurious.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-BC-Favicon-552f65c2v1_site_icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Subscriptions – BeanCurious https://beancurious.com 32 32 162840667 The MacLehose Blend https://beancurious.com/shop/the-maclehose-blend/ https://beancurious.com/shop/the-maclehose-blend/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:48:22 +0000 https://beancurious.com/?post_type=product&p=73152

A “Greatest Hits” of Ethiopia Blend

Named after the 100k long MacLehose trail, we aimed for a blend that is complex, elegant and that can be enjoyed every morning without becoming dull.

To achieve this, we focused on Ethiopian single origin beans. These coffees are widely considered to be the best you can buy. They are famously floral, fruity and require delicate a preparation to bring out their best attributes. 

The MacLehose celebrates all the tastes that make Ethiopian coffees great. We added intensely floral beans with a character found through out the region. We mixed in beans that exhibit a very berry, fruity character to give it sweetness. Finally we added some slightly darker roasts to add a honeyed depth.

The result is a blend that is far more complex than it’s individual parts. Like walking through a field of honeysuckle, while snacking on plums. The layers of sweetness makes this a cup you will keep coming back to.

Blend #2 - The MacLehose

Floral
Fruits
Honey

Inspired by the famous Hong Kong Trail of the same name, the Wilson is an exceptionally nutty, chocolatey blend from Yunnan, Honduras and Uganda.

Very low acidity, smooth and full-bodied.

No Roast Levels?

Blends are tricky beasts. Unlike single origin coffees, each bean in the blend is roasted to a unique level. This creates a very specific, very consistent flavour profile for the blend but it also means that “roasting it darker” just isn’t possible.

Resting Your Coffee

Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.

Generally your coffee will be at it’s peak after:

Light: 7-9 days after roast date
Roaster’s Choice: 5-7 days after roast date
Dark: 3-5 days after roast date

But every bean and person is different so please experiment and find what works for you!

No Pre-Ground Beans?

Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.

The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.

As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.

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The Daily Blends

It would be great if every single day I could wake up and savour the nuances of single origin and specialty coffees, but sometimes, if I’m being honest, they’re a bit much. Sometimes (like every Monday to Friday where I’m yelling at my kid to stop jumping on the bed or he’s going to miss the school bus, or those other days when going to the office is like going off to war and I know that there better be an extra happy happy-hour after work) you just want a damn coffee that isn’t crap.

Well this is our solution. Introducing BeanCurious’ sweet, nutty blends that are custom mixed by our master roaster to be your go-to-cup of goodness that won’t break the bank. These every day blends are smooth, full bodied coffees containing some of our most popular beans: Yunnan, Hondoras, Guatemala. Use them in your aeropress, espresso machine, office drip maker or wherever you find yourself. Blend the dark brew with milk, oats, soy, add a sinful touch of sugar if you like, or just drink it black, however you enjoy your coffee these workhorse coffee blends will start your day right.

And don’t worry, just because the price is neat we are still committed to supporting sustainability and paying fair prices for the beans. We’re just buying the off-auction beans from the same farms our single-origins come from. If you know wine, think of these as like a Bordeaux second wine, they’re not the choicest the supplier has to offer, but the 2nd tier of beans from top-quality suppliers.

Blend #1 - Wilson

Lemons
Nuts / Cashew
Milk Chocolate

Inspired by the famous Hong Kong Trail of the same name, the Wilson is an exceptionally nutty, chocolatey blend from Yunnan, Honduras and Uganda.

Very low acidity, smooth and full-bodied.

No Roast Levels?

Blends are tricky beasts. Unlike single origin coffees, each bean in the blend is roasted to a unique level. This creates a very specific, very consistent flavour profile for the blend but it also means that “roasting it darker” just isn’t possible.

Resting Your Coffee

Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.

Generally your coffee will be at it’s peak after:

Light: 7-9 days after roast date
Roaster’s Choice: 5-7 days after roast date
Dark: 3-5 days after roast date

But every bean and person is different so please experiment and find what works for you!

No Pre-Ground Beans?

Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.

The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.

As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.

]]> https://beancurious.com/shop/the-daily-coffee/feed/ 0 51503 HK Coffee Subscriptions https://beancurious.com/shop/hk-coffee-subscriptions-ii/ https://beancurious.com/shop/hk-coffee-subscriptions-ii/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2020 02:03:48 +0000 https://beancurious.com/?post_type=product&p=48696 We change beans once every 4 weeks. To ensure you receive a new bean every month, we rotate our selection once every 4 weeks. This means you will receive the same coffee twice if you opt to renew your subscription every 2 weeks.]]>

Premium Coffee Subscriptions for Hong Kong

Want to explore the world of coffee but don’t have the time? We help you make it easy. Our master roaster samples coffees from around the world, selecting only the best farms to send to you. We roast, experiment and cup each and every supplier, figuring out the optimal levels to bring out the best feature of each whole coffee bean we have on offer. Whether you enjoy tea-like light roasts that highlight terroir, fruity, caramel like coffees for drip and aeropress or richly dark coffees for espresso we have figured out the optimal roasting time for your preferred method of preparation. Let us take you on a journey to exploring freshly roasted coffees from Africa, Asia Pacific and South America from your office or home.

BeanCurious is proudly based in Hong Kong. Our coffees feature photos taken by us and our subscribers of rare locations all across our fine city. Highlighting unexplored, out-of-the-way locations we hope to bridge Hong Kong’s vibrant, local  community with international coffee farms looking to do the same for their communities. Through something as simple and rich as coffee we hope to promote the idea that we are all in this together.

Choose Your Style

Light, dark or pick the “omakase style” Roaster’s Choice and let our master roaster decide for you.

Roast

Every week we’ll fire up the machine, roast, pack and ship your beans via S.F. Express or HK Post. The place of origin of our coffee changes every four weeks.

Delivered

Welcome every Friday with a mailbox filled with the aroma of gourmet coffee.

Light Roast

Acidity / Citrus
Floral Notes
Fruit
Caramel/Chocolate

If you like your coffee lighter and more delicate, this is your subscription. Your coffee will have more nuanced/tea-like flavours, fruit and citrus notes. 

(For those who know coffee lingo, this is your light to city roast)

Roaster's Choice

Acidity / Citrus
Floral Notes
Fruit
Caramel/Chocolate

Our most popular option. Our master roaster will adjust the roast level to preserve the best notes of the coffee while trying to reduce the acidity. 

We keep the roast from Medium to Dark range.

Dark Roast

Acidity / Citrus
Floral Notes
Fruit
Caramel/Chocolate

The Dark (full city to full city+) is for those who like their coffee more nutty, dark chocolate and toasted. If you have an espresso machine, pick this option.

Plan Details

We only bill you for the coffee you receive. If you find you have too much or too little coffee you can adjust the quantity at any time by logging in to your account.

  • The coffee of origin that we ship out changes every four weeks, we will send out a newsletter on the roast just before shipping.
  • Cut-off time for the weekly roast is 9am on Mondays.
  • It may take up to 10 days for you to receive your shipment if you order just after the cut-off.

Resting Your Coffee

Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.

Generally your coffee will be at it’s peak after:

Light: 7-9 days after roast date
Roaster’s Choice: 5-7 days after roast date
Dark: 3-5 days after roast date

But every bean and person is different so please experiment and find what works for you!

No Pre-Ground Beans?

Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.

The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.

As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.

Not Convinced?

That’s cool! Try some other subscription services and roasters around our city. If you find someone better let us know! We’d love to talk shop with them.

Coffee + Tales
88 Beans
Cupping Room Subscriptions
The Coffee Academics Subscription

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