Costa Rica La Minita Estate Tarrazu Costa Rica: La Minita Estate, Tarrazu

Truly delicious coffee. I take it into a few seconds into second crack somewhere just shy of 10 minutes into the roast using a dedicated profile of drying, yellowing and roasting. This bean roasts perfectly. I recently read information on the estates website at https://www.laminita.com/farms-mills/hacienda-la-minita. Neighbors love it too. :)

Took these to FC and really enjoyed the cleanness of the cup. The pour over proved to bring out the brightness of the citric acid (orange-like), and overall sweetness IMO, while the espresso was more balanced with the dark chocolate notes. Also got out the mokapot for one cup and the aroma was surprisingly strong-yet-pleasant. While it may not have blown me away, I did enjoy it very much.

This by far one of my go to coffees and The beans from Coffee Bean Corral are of extremely high quality. I roast this to just a bit past first crack and let it rest for a couple days. The flavors are extraordinary. I’m very impressed so I ordered more !!!

Makes really good coffee.

Well balanced… I love the finish! I always want another cup. Great coffee.

This is an update to my review on Nov. 22. I did roast up to a medium (full city) roast profile and am very happy with the results. Even after resting for only two days the flavors are more pronounced than the light roast, with a pleasing aroma, and combination of nutty and caramel flavor profiles. I am by no means an expert roaster but this coffee seems like it may have great range of roast levels. It has very low chaff and the final result produces extremely attractive beans. Should make a good stocking stuffer for friends.

Roasted to second crack, this coffee is delicious. They sell Costa Rican La Minita at my local coffee shop for $20, I loved that too, but freshly roasted is far better!

I love this coffee. I roasted medium dark which is wonderful. In this wonderful coffee I felt aroma, chocolaty and sweetness. No need to add syrup.

Gonna be another favorite

This is my first roast. Got the Nuvo ceramic stovetop roaster thingy. I don't have time for that. I'll be roasting for years. I drink coffee. Not make it half my life. So I got that Whirley Pop thing and it's amazing. Anyhoo...this is a fantastic coffee for noobs. Seriously. It's easy to roast and has fantastic colors as it roasts. Went to first crack, and when you drink it, it's like crack. The caffeine level is no joke. Can't wait to make my next order.

I home roasted a batch, half City, half Vienna. After seven days, the City roast had a cedar-like, slightly spicy aroma, a nutty chocolate flavor with an overall light body and pronounced acidity. The Vienna roast had an aroma of chocolate and orange citrus, more chocolate and burnt sugar in the flavor with more body and less acidity than the light roast. A 50/50 blend of the two was magic! The aroma had a chocolate/cedar/pipe tobacco thing going on, subtle fruit, big chocolate/caramel flavor with a lingering sweetness through the finish and the perfect balance of body and acidity. The Tarrazu region is really is the Costa Rican “cream of the crop”. The coffee was ground medium fine on a Cuisinart burr grinder and brewed on an Aeropress.

Costa Rica coffee is our favorite.

Ordered a pound sample and loved it so entered a 10 pound order.

Received a sample pack of La Minita among a few other CBC beans as a gift along with an SR540 to begin home roasting. First time roaster, and these beans have me hooked. I ended up close to a Full City / early second crack and could not be happier with the resulting brew.

Wonderful coffee. It is superb whether roasted light, dark, or any level between. Smooth, delicious, a pleasure every time.

As billed in a medium roast!! Roasted this for Christmas presents and can’t wait to hear the reviews! I will be ordering this one again!

Roasting your own beans truly provides a good example of how doing things at home from scratch can lead to cool experiences. The description above with respect to medium body, with its flavors and finish is spot on. I have been ordering from this company for years now and its been a great experience, and great coffees.

This variety is at its best when dark roasted. Very smooth with no aftertaste. I'm a dark roast lover, and I did not like the taste when I brown roasted La Minita

Low acidity and very smooth. It is my go to for everyday.

I finally got back around to working on finding a good roast profile for this one again. First time was good but not GREAT and I set it aside a while. City+ seems to be the sweet spot where it has near perfect balance. For a small bean it surprisingly needed an extended drying phase like a big Kenya AA. Not a wild-and-crazy-knock-your-socks-off-and-jolt-you-out-of-bed kind of coffee, more like a sip-on-it-slowly-while-reading-a-book kind of coffee because the longer it sits in the cup the sweeter it gets, and to me it is relaxing to drink. Tarrazu is one of my all time favorites but I haven't had a good cup of Tarrazu in decades until now.

Costa Rican Tarrazu has been my go-to coffee for years. Got imprinted by La Minita many moons ago. Don't know if my taste buds have improved but La Minita, as good as it is (and it is very, very good), just doesn't seem as outstanding as it was five to ten years ago. When I served it, friends became immediate converts. Still and all, this is a top ten, daily drinker. Tarrazu has a reputation for being 'just too non-descript, too straight forwardly good'. This crop is no exception. Roast easy, let it sit for two to three days and it. is. good. Not great, but very good.

Great coffee. One of my all time favorites.

I have come back to Costa Rican coffee after circling the globe (of coffees). I am blending this with Ethiopian to give it a little more acid and more chocolate flavors. Still, Costa Rican is the base coffee in the blend, and the best.

I roast at least 50 pounds of this coffee a year. I also roast Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain Peaberry as gifts for family and really good friends but my wife and I prefer the La Minita Tarrazu over these more well known and more expensive varieties. Overall a great coffee, My family members who have been getting the more well known premium coffees and visit us now are requesting the La Minita instead. My order quantity as risen from 10 pounds a time to 25 pounds. Highly recommended!!!!

Rated this yesterday but made a mistake. i roasted it 3 ways - city+, full city and full city+ city + - a tiny bit acidic full city - perfect - lovely flavors full city+ - slightly bland Of course I drank up all of the roasts.

Very low acidity and no bitterness. Will not consider drinking another coffee now.

A VERY special coffee! Well balanced and great any time of day. I like it before second crack.

3rd time purchasing. This time a 5lb bag. Solid coffee. Roasting on the stove in a popcorn popper in 1lb batches and it roasts uniformly. Using it for both drip and espresso. Fantastic crema and flavor. All around it is my favorite coffee. I always go back to it. Drink it everyday and may purchase a 50lb bag one day!!

I really enjoy this CR LaManita. I was surprised at the chocolatey tones, other beans stated the chocolate flavoring but didn't deliver like this one does. We just upgraded to a behmor 1600+ so I'm excited to see what we can do with this bean in that new machine. Please keep carrying it and we will definitely keep buying. Currently my favorite. Thank you

It roasts up beautifully and not a lot of chaff to dispose of..... pleasant sweet aftertaste. Highly recommend this 👍🏽

We roast this into SC to about 440F . It's actually milder in acidity compared to some other Costa Rican coffees from the Tarrazú region. What it has is a refined sweetness in the cup, balance. It's a very mild coffee. The aromatics are sweet and clean. It's a refined, clean cup. The acidity and sweetness are perfectly in balance with just a touch of dark chocolate. The grading is immaculate.

Good well balanced, smooth cup of coffee. Roasted city +.

Very easy to roast. I do a medium roast (first hint of second crack) and the result is a complex blend of earthy flavors with hints of chocolate. One of the smoothest coffees I've ever had.

This is a great Costa Rican coffee. Very smooth and well balanced. I roasted to City+ and was surprised at the sweet chocolate notes at that level of roast. Very well balanced.

Very nice flavor. Very chocolatey and smooth. I roasted a dark roast and I love it

A great coffee. One of my favorites.