Dogwood Coffee

Nine of Dogwood's 14 active coffees are roasted medium. Four are medium-light and one is medium-dark. Nothing goes light and nothing goes dark, which is a narrow band to work inside, and it means the difference between two bags comes from where the coffee grew and how it was processed rather than from how long it stayed in the drum.

Eight of the 14 are single origins and six are blends. Colombia supplies three of the singles, Ethiopia two, and Costa Rica, Kenya and Peru one apiece. Six of the eight documented processes are washed, with one honey and one natural alongside. That is a conventional sourcing sheet, and it is the reason the floral and fruit notes in this catalog read clean instead of jammy.

The roaster list places Dogwood in the Midwest, and its site lists several cafes, one of them in St. Paul. No founding year is stated there. A 12-ounce bag is the standard size, the median price is $22, and the full range runs $18 to $27, which puts the entire lineup inside a $9 window. Two coffees are sold caffeine-free.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

The histogram is tight. Nine coffees at medium, four at medium-light, one at medium-dark, and nothing at either extreme of the five-level scale. Acidity averages exactly at the midpoint and body a little above it, which describes a cup with more weight than snap, the kind that holds up in a carafe through a slow morning at the kitchen table.

Origins run to five countries with Colombia and Ethiopia carrying most of the load. Processing is washed by a wide margin, six of eight, and the honey and natural lots are single exceptions rather than a program. Prices are the steadiest thing in the catalog. A 12-ounce bag costs $18 at the bottom and $27 at the top, and the median sits at $22, so there is no rare-lot tier here waiting to surprise anyone at checkout.

What Dogwood Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Floral is the most repeated note in the catalog, and jasmine is named twice inside that group. A general fruity impression appears three times more. Together they describe the top of the cup.

Underneath, the fruit resolves into specifics that lean dark and jammy, with blackberry, apricot jam and one description that reaches for bubblegum. Candied orange supplies the only real citrus. Sweetness arrives as caramel and brown sugar, and almond appears once, which is as close as this note list gets to a nutty or chocolate register. What the whole set adds up to is a tea-like, floral cup with fruit behind it, the profile a washed-heavy sourcing sheet tends to produce when it is roasted to the middle rather than pushed light.

Why Buy Dogwood Coffee

• A predictable price band: The whole catalog sits between $18 and $27 for 12 ounces, with a median of $22.

• Washed and clean: Six of eight single origins are washed. That is what keeps the floral notes distinct.

• One roast, held steady: Thirteen of 14 coffees are medium-light or medium, so the house style carries across the shelf.

• Floral over chocolate: Across the catalog, jasmine and general floral notes outnumber anything from the nut or chocolate family, which leaves these cups tasting closer to brewed tea than to dessert.

Is Dogwood Coffee Right for You?

Anyone who wants clean, floral coffee without paying rare-lot prices should look here. The $18 to $27 band covers the whole catalog, and the medium roast center means these coffees survive a drip machine as well as a pour over.

Fermentation chasers should keep walking. Six of the eight single origins are washed, and there is nothing anaerobic on the shelf, so the wild, boozy end of specialty coffee is absent here. Dark roast drinkers have even less to work with. One coffee reaches medium-dark and that is the end of it.

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