Proud Mary Coffee

Proud Mary Coffee sells most of its coffee in 9.5-ounce bags, and the median one costs $28. The cheapest is $21. Look across every weight the company lists and the top of the range reaches $60, which means the same site holds an ordinary weekday purchase and a considered one.

Seventeen of the 20 active coffees are single origins. Blends hold the remaining 15 percent, three coffees in all, and one coffee in the catalog is decaf.

Sourcing sits in Central America more than anywhere else. Nicaragua accounts for four of the 17 single origins, Honduras and Panama for three each, Guatemala and Mexico for two apiece, with one lot arriving from Colombia and one from El Salvador. A single Ethiopian coffee is the only entry from outside the Americas, so the map here is narrow by design, eight countries with a heavy Central American middle rather than a tour of every growing region a buyer could reach.

Single Origins

Blends

Roast Profile & Flavor Range

The roast histogram has two bars. Eleven of the 20 coffees are medium-light and the other nine are medium, and nothing goes darker than that, which keeps every bag within one step of its neighbor on a five-point scale. Acidity averages a shade above the middle of that scale and body a shade below it, the combination that usually reads in the cup as lift rather than weight.

Washed lots make up eight of the 17 single origins. Five are naturals, two use honey processing and two go through anaerobic or extended fermentation. That puts more than half the singles through a method that adds fruit before the roast has any say. Bags at the common 9.5-ounce size run $21 to $42 with a median of $28, and the full list, larger sizes included, reaches $60.

What Proud Mary Coffee Coffees Tend to Taste Like

Caramel is named on five coffees, more often than any other note, with milk chocolate on four and honey on two. That is the sweet base. Above it sits a floral register that runs through the whole catalog, jasmine on four coffees, a general floral marker on three more and lemongrass on two, which is enough repetition to call perfume a house trait rather than the quirk of one or two lots.

Fruit arrives as apricot on three coffees and stone fruit on three others, with blackberry, blackcurrant and citrus each appearing twice. Syrupy shows up three times, a texture word rather than a flavor, and it fits the honey and natural lots that produce it. Taken together the notes describe a cup that smells like flowers and finishes like caramel.

Why Buy Proud Mary Coffee

• Two roast steps, nothing else: Eleven coffees at medium-light and nine at medium, with no dark wing at all.

• Central American depth: Fifteen of 17 single origins come from Central America and Mexico, several countries represented by more than one lot.

• Flowers on the note list: Jasmine, floral and lemongrass together outnumber every chocolate marker in the catalog.

• Small bags, real prices: The common size is 9.5 ounces at a $28 median, the kind of bag you weigh out rather than scoop.

Is Proud Mary Coffee Right for You?

Order here if aroma is what you buy coffee for. The catalog stops at medium, acidity sits above body, and the tasting notes name flowers and stone fruit far more often than they name cocoa or toast, which is the profile of a filter coffee you smell before you sip.

Two groups should look elsewhere. Anyone who drinks dark roast has nothing to pick from, since nothing in the catalog goes past medium, and anyone shopping decaf gets exactly one option. Bag size is worth checking too. A $28 median buys 9.5 ounces, so the cost per cup runs higher than the shelf price suggests.

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