Origins
Why here
Three things line up here, and the map is where they do. Temperature sets the band: arabica yields best at 18 to 21°C, robusta at 22 to 26, and those four degrees are most of the belt’s shape. The rain has to arrive in a pattern rather than a trickle — the flowers open when a dry season breaks. Height is how a farm on the equator reaches the cooler window without going anywhere. Volcanic ground lies under a lot of this country; whether it or the altitude is what you taste, nobody has separated.
coffee / where-it-grows →- Temperature highland: cooler air, arabica’s window
- Rainfall the belt: frost-free, a wet season then a dry one
- Soil volcanic arc: common, not proven the cause
- All three where the best-known origins sit
5 bags · 5 countries · 5 regions
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In the cupboard
Dancing Goats
Minas Gerais, Brazil · De Mello Coffee
“Back to basics. Nutty, smooth, bitter like cocoa: the taste most of the world knows as coffee.”
9.0/10
The shelf
Everything I have finished, newest first. 4 bags of the 5 in the journal since Sep 2026, from 5 countries.
Intensity, not quality. A low number is a different coffee, not a worse one.
1,100–1,500 m
1,700–1,900 m
1,600–1,900 m
1,900–2,350 m
- Dancing Goats, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Natural, 1,200 m. Flavour cocoa and nuts. Rated 9.0 out of 10.
- Mt. Ijen, East Java, Indonesia. Natural, 1,100–1,500 m. Flavour strawberry jam. Rated 8.5 out of 10.
- La Pacaya Cinnamon, Tarrazú, Costa Rica. Cinnamon anaerobic, 1,700–1,900 m. Flavour spiced warmth. Rated 8.0 out of 10.
- Kii, Kirinyaga, Kenya. Washed, 1,600–1,900 m. Flavour citrus. Rated 7.0 out of 10.
- Ana Sora, Guji, Oromia, Ethiopia. Natural, 1,900–2,350 m. Flavour strawberry. Rated 9.4 out of 10.
How this works
A bag lasts one to two weeks. When it is finished the next one takes the top of this page and the old one moves down to the shelf, where it stays. Nothing gets deleted. The map fills up as the shelf does, one dot per origin, larger where I have been back. The rating is mine. The profile is eight axes of character rather than a score, and it is the same eight every time, so after a year it should be obvious what I actually reach for.