Candyman Blend Espresso

Tasting notes: Grape, Plum, Lemon Pastry, Dark Chocolate, Sweet, Malted Milk, Macadamia Butter.

Coffee breakdown:
Variety: Pink Bourbon
Process: Washed, Natural

Candyman is Small Batch's flagship espresso blend, launched in 2010. It represents a daily labour of love and a constant work-in-progress: making superlative tastiness from the raw components that Small Batch insists on buying well directly, rather than just from importers as is common practice.

Components are frequently rotated to ensure broad consistency of the taste profile, cycling through direct purchases from the same producers who also make up Small Batch's favourite featured single coffee products. It is important to Small Batch that blends comprise quality ingredients that are proudly identified and no less equitably purchased than the featured micro-lots. For example, the Colombian purchases present in Candyman are super sweet, clean and well-processed, but simply do not possess the distinguishing characteristics or volume that enable Small Batch to feature them on their own.