Brandywine does a collaboration for Halloween with Fellow Drops, which is an interesting service from Fellow that promotes one or two high end coffees a week. I’m a sucker for a good special occasion edition, key word being good. Brandywine is the roaster I trust to deliver good, so this is my Halloween week coffee.
This coffee is pretty tame, relatively speaking to my recent fare and Brandywine in general, a pure Ethiopian natural process coffee from the Chelbesa station in Gedeb, reasonably lightly roasted. 15g coffee, 40 second bloom, 250g water total starting around 95 degrees. Brew time was 2.55. Fellow recommends a more coffee heavy recipe, which I’ll try, and I’ll grind a bit finer next time, but my default recipe handled this very well. Just a beautiful, plump Ethiopian coffee. I didn’t get the big red fruit notes mentioned in their listing, but I do get the creamy body and as expected lovely sweetness.
I suspect the Halloweenie on their website now is the same bean, they can’t be buying too many lots from Chelbesa. At the very least it would be similar.
If you’re well familiar with Ethiopia, I think many other roasters sell similarly good Ethopian coffee. If you want to try Brandywine, their weirder stuff is amazing. I seldom rebuy coffees but they had a peach coferment Star Trek TNG themed coffee earlier this year that I tried to buy more of after it sold out. One of the best coffees I’ve ever had. The others I’ve bought have been stellar, too.
Great bag art, too. It’s a little thing but I love it.