Once again I woke around 3:00 p.m. Instead of indulging in the cream and crema if an affogato, I sipped from one of my current favorite coffees: Edwin Noreña’s Gummy Sharks. Though Noreña is the farmer, Black and White Roasters from North Carolina, US, is the company who has collaborated with the farmer and who has mastered the roasting process above any other north american roastery I’ve experienced.
Ah, but what a pleasure it is to take my time over a cup of excellent pour over, and a pour over with such a queer name. Gummy Sharks?—as in the blue and white candy gummies? Yes; those exactly, but how? Well, this coffee is a blend of two co-fermented beans by Noreña: a green apple co-ferment, and a blackberry, strawberry, and raspberry pulp blend co-ferment.
What does it taste like? As you can imagine: gummy sharks. It tastes like such an iconic gummy through the combination of its four tasting notes: peach rings, lemon candy, caramel apple, and fruit gummies. Each of these notes are not hard to flush out through a few sips, and they combine beautifully.
All the while, I sit with my loved one, and together we watch the last episode of Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens which takes place in Bangkok.
I could not ask for a better start to the day—though it is tremendously late.
