Basin Blend — pour-over carafe

Basin Blend

$18 / 12oz

Our house espresso: Brazil for body, Guatemala for structure. Chocolate, roasted hazelnut, a short sweet finish.

Origin
Cerrado, Brazil + Antigua, Guatemala
Altitude
1,000–1,600m
Process
Natural + Washed
Variety
Mundo Novo, Bourbon
Roast level
Medium-Dark

Basin Blend exists because a single-origin espresso shot is a hard sell to a café that’s pulling four hundred shots a day into milk. The Brazil natural brings low acidity and body; the Guatemala washed lot brings the structure that keeps the shot from tasting flat under milk.

We roast the two lots separately and blend post-roast, not co-roast — the natural process Brazil and the washed Guatemala develop at different rates, and co-roasting them means picking a compromise that shortchanges both.

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Highwire

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