Tailored Blends Coffee - The Perfect Mend

The Perfect Mend

On the river or sitting at the vice dreaming of the river, this coffee will put you in the right mindset. Rich and complex, elegant and artful, a great addition to your favorite fly fisherman's fly box.

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The Perfect Mend

Fly fishing is more than an activity, more than a hobby, more than even a sport: fly fishing is a state of mind. As the sun peaks over the eastern ridge, and the first shards of light bathe your secret hole in gold, you need The Perfect Mend (TPM); a coffee as rich as your surroundings and as complex as the task at hand.

A medium-bodied raisin -plum essence envelopes your taste buds, deepening your connection to the effervescent water and its majestic, jade-hued residents. A complex sweetness from the Guatemala Finca San Jose Ocana spreads across your pallet, offering hints of dark chocolate layered with a slight tang of rhubarb. Meanwhile, the Costa Rica Lourdes de Naranjo Herbazu's bright, citrus accents balances the cup with an understated zip, heightening your senses as you scour your box for just the right fly. TPM finishes strong with a snappy lemon zest, but melts quickly away to a luscious memory before that gloriously liberating first cast.

Yet even an excellent cast requires modification, so with a flick of the wrist you send your spare line upstream. As a beautiful teal flash explodes on your fly from below, you realize that just like The Perfect Mend from Tailored Blends Coffee, it was precisely the correct modification to an otherwise perfect day. Finally, an easy hatch to match.

$14.99/lb (Plus $4.50 for Shipping)

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Why Buy From Us?

* Freshness - Coffee begins to age as soon as it's roasted. After two weeks the flavor begins to lose its vitality, and after one month you can definitely call your coffee old. The best you can hope for, even when packaged correctly, is about one month. We roast the highest grade beans and ship them within 24 hours so that you have the freshest possible coffee in your cup.

* Individuality- Over-roasting causes each coffee to begin to taste similar. The only way to distinguish the fruity highlights of an Ethiopian coffee from the milk-chocolate sweetness of a Columbian is by roasting it just enough to fully roast the bean, yet not so much that the flavor oils become scorched and you're left with the same smoky, charred flavor for each type of bean. We roast each bean to its optimum roast level, bringing out the region's "terroir," processing style, and unique flavor.

* Variety - There are great beans from all over the world: Rwanda, Uganda, Peru, El Salvador, Timor, and Australia, just to name a few. When you buy from the supermarket or the national conglomerate, you are limited to the areas that can sustain mass production. These may or may not be the best quality or the most interesting. We order green beans from all over the world, depending on where the best coffee is, not for any other reason.

We use Sweet Marias as our sole-source green coffee bean supplier. They source beans from all over the world, concentrating on small farms and "micro lots" that would ordinarily fly under the radar of the giant distributors. They cup for quality at origin and they cup again for quality upon arrival in the U.S. Sweet Marias is a Certified Organic and Fair Trade supplier of green beans, so if we offer a blend that says a coffee is "Organic" or "Fair Trade", then you can rest assured it is. Sweet Marias also supports several coffee causes through their business. Please check out any of the linked websites below to learn more about how to help the coffee-growing regions of the word.

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