POSSIBLY MAYBE

CONTINGENCY IN A CUP:
Possibly Maybe is the wild card on our menu. There are no strict guidelines for it. Instead it is a celebration of emergent or underrepresented origins, or perhaps a sensory profile that veers far from its regional expectations, or simply it is a lot that is delightfully surprising! We call it contingency in a cup because the flavour profile presents what is 'neither necessary, nor impossible', which is also part of what makes coffee so fun. As Björk says in her song Possibly Maybe, "uncertainty excites me" because "who knows what is going to happen?" 

ORIGIN:
East Timor is precisely the type of coffee that Possibly Maybe is designed to celebrate! Coffee is essential to the Indonesian archipelago, with nearly 25% of the Timorese working in coffee production. Due to the relative isolation and inland forests, it is home to the truly unique Timor Hybrid. It is the result of natural propagation of local robusta and typica trees dating back to the 1920s and is similar to some of the endemic typica variety coffees that flourish in nearby Papua New Guinea.

This lot comes from 15 small lot producers near the village of Letefoho in Ermera. The coffee trees are tended for many years, and harvesting is done by hand with processing done frequently on shared local equipment. This offering was separated as part of Cafe Import's Regional Select program that identifies top scoring lots and prevents them from being used in larger blends.

FLAVOUR:
Timor Hybrid is one of those varieties that presents such a unique sensory impression! Off the top there is fresh strawberry flavors with a light cocoa aromatic. There is a nice solid cooked cranberry flavour that carries the cup into a sticky and sweet finish. We went with blondie as our taste note because the sugars bridge  white chocolate to vanilla with caramel undertones. Balancing that punch of berry against those more rounded sugar notes makes for a very fun cup!