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Moonbow Decaf Medium-Dark Roast
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Tasting Notes
Tasting notes of vanilla, dried fruit, and butterscotch. Roasted with espresso in mind, but also makes an excellent pourover coffee to pair with desserts.
Our Moonbow decaf has been rated at 91+ points on Coffee Review several times over the years. Most recently receiving 91 points in 2023
"Blind Assessment: Evaluated as espresso. Richly chocolaty, gently fruit-forward. Dark chocolate, dried plum, rhododendron, roasted almond, fresh-cut fir in aroma and small cup. Very syrupy mouthfeel; crisply chocolaty, wood-framed finish. In cappuccino-scaled milk, attractive notes of dark chocolate and dried plum dominate.
Background Info
Amazing things exist at night! Our home island of Hawai‘i is one of the best places in the world to observe moonbows: Night time rainbows illuminated by the light of the full moon.
Decaf drinkers no longer need to sacrifice caffeine for flavor. Our Moonbow decaf is an excellent evening alternative for our Espresso Nuevo or Espresso Classico blends for those looking to limit their caffeine intake. It is the coffee we personally drink the most of, so we work hard to keep it great, rather than as an after thought. Great for an after dinner affogato or as a pour over paired with some shortbread cookies.
Moonbow decaf is a medium-dark roast of washed coffee from Central and South America that makes a lively espresso and a balanced and chocolatey filter coffee.
This lot was decaffeinated using the "sugarcane" process, a solvent-based decaffeination method using ethyl acetate, derived from sugarcane or beets. The process includes steaming the beans to open their pores and rinsing with the solvent to remove caffeine. Sugarcane process decafs are rapidly gaining a reputation for quality and transparency of flavor, particularly those from Colombia.
Brewing
Espresso: 19-20g coffee in. 45-50ml out. 93C (199F) water temperature. 25-28 seconds extraction time
Pour over: 16g coffee. 250mL water. 91-92C (196-198F) brew time 3:15-3:30. complete final pour around 1:45. We recommend grinding slightly courser for this and other decaf coffees as they seem to produce more fines that can clog the paper filters and slow down estraction time.
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Roasting, Shipping & Payment
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We roast for Online orders Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Unless the coffee lists a special roast date, your retail order will be roasted the next Monday, Wednesday, or Friday following your order. Orders placed before 11:00AM CST on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday will be roasted the same day as ordered. Coffees will be shipped within 2 days of roasting
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We do not sell green coffee.
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Yes, we ship worldwide. If you have trouble placing an international order, send an email to hello@paradiseroasters.comand we will create a custom invoice for you. We work with several shipping carriers and seek the most cost effective shipping options for our customers.
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We do not currently offer any Organic certified coffees. Green coffees imported to Hawaii must be fumigated before entry to protect the local coffee industry from pests and diseases. Some of the coffees we purchase may be from from Organic certified farms but we cannot label the as such after fumigation..
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Orders with two or more 12oz bags are shipped via USPS Priority and are usually received within 2-4 days post shipment. Orders containing only one 12oz bag are shipped USPS First Class and can take up to 5 days post shipment. USPS Priority and First Class shipping are available at Standard USPS rates.
Expedited shipping options with FedEX are available for an extra charge.
Company & Facility
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We roast and fulfill all of our coffee orders in Hilo, Hawai'i.
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We roast in small batches using A Diedrich IR12 roasting machine.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
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We source an array of the top specialty coffees worldwide that appeal to an array of different palates.
If at any point you have difficulty brewing, or just appreciating one of our roasted coffees, no problem. Shoot us an email within 5 days of receiving your coffee and we'll help you find the correct brew settings for your coffee, or give you a credit (minus actual shipping costs) on your next purchase. Yep, we're a Satisfaction Guarantee coffee company!
Please note, our Satisfaction Guarantee only applies to U.S. orders of roasted coffees, and you must contact us within 5 days of receiving the coffees. Credits do not include actual shipping fees, which may be different from posted shipping fees.
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We roast in small batches using A Diedrich IR12 roasting machine.
Coffees
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Our commitment to you is to serve exceptional, fresh-roasted coffees. And part of being exceptional means roasting before the flavors inherent in the green bean begin to fade, which happens over time.
Like apples and pumpkins, coffee is a seasonal agricultural product and each country has a different harvesting cycle in which coffees are at their peak. If we were to insist on serving a single origin all year long, the flavors in that coffee would be noticeably better one half of the year over the other. So the reason you no longer see that coffee you loved is because the optimal season has passed. For more on seasonality in coffees, see this blog post here.
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Hopefully so. If it was a popular product or we receive customer requests, we will make every attempt to bring it back. However, please note that coffees from a certain producer may not taste the same year after year.
If you loved a coffee and no longer see it listed, shoot us an email and ask us what is similar. We’d be happy to provide a personal recommendation.
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We aim for balance and completeness along with differentiation and distinction. You shouldn't need to be a professional coffee taster to tell the coffees a part, so, when we’re selecting coffees, we want them to be distinct from each other.
We avoid ”one-trick pony” type coffees, such as Ethiopians with great aroma but no body or acidity, or coffees with good aroma and acidity but lacking sweetness. These elements, which are often reflections of the growing conditions, are harmonized through good roasting.
And, obviously, defects — even subtle defects — influence our selection. Since we live and work at origin, we’re sensitive to coffee defects like “past crop”, pulpy, and naturals that border on over-ferment. With naturals, we’ll only carry these when great examples are available.
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Our perspective on roasting is similar: we seek balance and distinction. To expect that a coffee is “best” when roasted to some pre-determined degree (i.e. only light roasting or only dark roasting) is analogous to thinking that each person would look best in the same outfit, or each coffee should be grown in the same way. We believe it’s our job to discover the roast degree which best highlights outstanding qualities in each coffee.
