Penrose v16

Blueprint

St. Louis, MO

Penrose v16

Comforting & Rich

Get ready for your mug shot. This house espresso is updated with the seasons, always offering a farm-to-cup traceability.
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    About the Roaster
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    Location
    St. Louis, MO
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    Fun Fact
    Blueprint's logo often gets mistaken for a hexagon, but it’s actually a blueprint for a cube with a tetrahedron on the inside.
    Details
    Penrose v16
    • Washed, Honey icon
      Process
      Washed, Honey
    • Cundinamarca = 70%, Nariño = 30% icon
      Sub Region
      Cundinamarca = 70%, Nariño = 30%
    • Sinisterra = 70% icon
      Producer
      Sinisterra = 70%
    • June – November 2017 2017 icon
      Harvest Time
      June – November 2017 2017
    • 1650 icon
      Elevation
      1650
    • Colombia, Tabi, Typica, Yellow Catarra icon
      Variety
      Colombia, Tabi, Typica, Yellow Catarra
    Roaster’s Notes
    PENROSE (named after the creator of the impossible triangle) is our “house” espresso. We feel perfect espresso is an impossible goal, but we still attempt to create it. Penrose is our ever-updated offering in the quest for the perfect espresso. While the seasonal components at times may be single-origin, and at other times a blend, it is always (nearly) perfect for your hopper. The aim of Penrose is: • to be a reliable and consistent offering • to be delicious with milk and without milk • to maintain seasonality and farm-to-cup traceability • to maintain a stable price point so it can be the main espresso on our bar and the bars of many of our wholesale partners • to be easy to dial-in on an espresso grinder. Penrose also does well in the brewer – look for notes of lasting sweetness and heavy body, with a subdued acidity. Version 16 is a blend of coffees from Colombia. The larger percentage is from La Fragua in Cundinamarca. We’ve worked with the Sinisterra family, owners of La Fragua, for the last few years, featuring coffees from Media Luna, La Fragua, and their variety garden. The coffee this year is extremely sweet with pleasant, juicy acidity. To round out the depth and sweetness in the espresso, we are featuring a red-honey processed coffee from the Inga Aponte Cooperative in Nariño, Colombia. We source this through our partners at Ally Coffee and have featured coffees from Inga Aponte in the past.