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Santo Blend
A medium-dark espresso blend from Colombia and Guatemala.
Curator’s note
Jacob Park and Joonmo Kim opened this room to start roasting, the Hillhurst shop being too small for it, and Maru was roasting in a 300-square-foot room here in 2023 when Ian Logan, then Intelligentsia's Los Angeles head roaster, applied to join and they learned that the roastery Park had visited as a young barista would soon be free. The roasting moved into that building with Logan as head roaster, and Maru, 65 people at ten years, keeps a house rule as small as no cream on the side.
The Coffee
The espresso chooses between three house blends, Sanmi for Ethiopian fruit, Kemi at sixty percent Colombia and forty Ethiopia, and Santo for milk, and the single origins run to one variety per lot whenever possible. Maru's bags include an Arts District Blend and a Swiss Water decaf Colombia, and its Monami matcha line includes a first-flush Kagoshima of Saemidori and Yutakamidori.
- Seasonal Release | Colombia Yeison Tovar
Colombia, Huila
- Varietals
- Pink Bourbon
- Process
- Hand-picked cherries kept in bags four days, depulped, rested 20 hours before washing, then sun dried 15 to 20 days
- Producer
- Las Brisas, Yeison Tovar
blood orange · guava · black currant
- Seasonal Release | Costa Rica Finca Los Angeles
Costa Rica
- Process
- Natural, Perla Negra lot
- Producer
- Las Lajas, Oscar and Francisca Chacón
blueberry · brown sugar · assam tea
- Ethiopia Yabitu Koba
Ethiopia, Yabitu Haro Lebetu Kebele
- Producer
- Gogogu Washing Station
blackberry · honeysuckle · golden raisin
- Kenya Kamagogo
Kenya
- Process
- Hand sorted, depulped, fermented overnight, dried on raised beds
- Producer
- Kamagogo Coffee Factory (Kiru Farmers Cooperative Society)
tomato · grapefruit · cola
- Sanmi Blend
Ethiopia
- Process
- Natural and washed lots roasted separately, then blended
floral · strawberry · maple
- Kemi Blend
Colombia and Ethiopia
- Process
- Sixty percent Colombia, forty percent Ethiopia, blended
caramel-like sweetness · mild bright fruitiness
- Santo Blend
Colombia and Guatemala
- Roast
- Medium-dark
dark chocolate · sweet citrus · hazelnut
The Vibe
The room is a converted warehouse and wears it deliberately: the original gridded concrete flooring left exposed, walls in glossy eggshell white, a darker wood ceiling cut with two skylights, seating built around one large communal table. It is a minimal room in the exact sense: less material rather than less thought.
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