Mirra Coffee

Every one of Mirra Coffee's seven active coffees is washed. Not one natural, no honey process, no anaerobic lot anywhere on the list. That is a narrow decision, and it shows up in the cup as clarity rather than fermentation, because a washed lot reaches the roaster with the fruit already stripped from the seed and less room to hide behind a processing signature.

The roastery works out of the Northeast and sells single origins only. No blends. No decaf. Seven lots and nothing else. Kenya, Taiwan, and Tanzania each contribute two coffees, and Colombia contributes the seventh. Taiwan carrying the same weight as Kenya on a seven-coffee list says something about how this catalog gets assembled. It is built lot by lot rather than filled out by region, and the absence of a blend means there is no fallback product to smooth over a gap between arrivals. Bags come at 8.8 ounces, which is 250 grams, a European weight rather than the twelve-ounce American default.

Single Origins

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

Six of the seven coffees are medium-light. The seventh is medium. Nothing goes darker, so the histogram is effectively one bar with a short tail, and there is no dark-roast option for anyone who wants one.

Acidity averages toward the high side of the five-point scale, near four, while body averages below three. That combination of high acid over light body is what light-roasted washed coffee does when it is brewed as filter, and it holds consistently enough across seven coffees that a drinker can predict the shape of a cup before opening the bag. Every lot is washed. The origin list runs Kenya, Taiwan, Tanzania, and Colombia, with two coffees from each of the first three. The cheapest bag is $22 and the most expensive is $42, with a median of $36 for 250 grams.

What Mirra Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Floral and stone fruit are the only notes that repeat, twice each across seven coffees. Everything else appears once. Candied lemon and candied lime sit next to citrus and bright, which is the acid side of this catalog showing up in the tasting notes as sugar rather than as sourness. Boysenberry and berry cover the darker fruit. Dried papaya is the single tropical note and basil blossom is the single herbal one.

Creamy and clean both appear, and between them they describe what a washed light roast does in a cup. No chocolate is listed anywhere. Neither is caramel, and neither is any nut. That absence is as descriptive as the notes themselves, because it tells you the roaster is not developing sugars far enough to reach the brown, dessert-flavored end of the spectrum. A Mirra bag tastes like fruit and flowers over a thin body.

Why Buy Mirra Coffee

• Washed, all of it: Seven active coffees, seven washed lots. No natural, no honey, no anaerobic entries on the list.

• Four origins, evenly weighted: Kenya, Taiwan, and Tanzania each carry two coffees and Colombia carries one.

• Acid forward, light bodied: Acidity averages near four on the five-point scale while body averages below three.

• Priced like single lots: Bags run $22 to $42 for 250 grams, median $36. Seven coffees at that rate is a slow and deliberate way to drink.

Is Mirra Coffee Right for You?

Mirra fits a filter drinker who already likes acidity and does not want it softened. Pour-over is the natural method, and so is any brewer that keeps body low and clarity high.

Skip it if you drink coffee with milk. A body averaging below three on the five-point scale will vanish under dairy, and the money spent on a $36 bag vanishes with it. Espresso-only households have no blend to fall back on, and there is no decaf here for anyone in the house who needs one. Price is the other honest obstacle, since $22 to $42 for 250 grams is a catalog built for someone who buys one bag at a time and pays attention to it.

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