
What to Expect
Magnetic North Coffee built this blend around a simple idea: take the creamy, chocolatey reliability of Brazilian pulped natural coffee and brighten it with washed Ethiopian citrus. The result is a medium roast that works with or without milk and doesn't ask you to choose between comfort and complexity.
The Cup
You get a medium body with a creamy, rounded mouthfeel courtesy of the Brazilian base. The acidity sits in the moderate range, citric and clean rather than sharp, thanks to the Ethiopian component adding orange brightness without overwhelming the chocolate and caramel foundation. This is a clean blend with no funk or ferment character, just straightforward flavour that's easy to read and easier to enjoy.
Who This Is For
This suits drinkers who want a balanced, approachable coffee that works across the day and across brew methods. It's particularly good if you like espresso-based drinks but want something with a bit more fruit character than a straight Brazilian.
If you're chasing high-acidity, tea-like filter coffees or experimental fermented profiles, this won't scratch that itch.
Best for: Espresso drinkers who want chocolate and citrus in equal measure, with or without milk.
How to Brew This Coffee
This blend was designed for espresso, where the Brazilian component provides body and sweetness while the Ethiopian adds complexity and prevents it from going flat. It also works well in an Aeropress, which gives you control over extraction and lets you dial in the balance between chocolate and orange. If you prefer a heavier, more textured cup, try it in a French Press to emphasise the creamy body and let the caramel notes come forward.
Brazil, Ethiopia
Eclectic
We enhance these descriptions ourselves and check them by hand, but mistakes can happen. The roaster's own wording is shown below. If anything arrives not as described, contact us and we'll put it right.
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Description from Roaster
We've crafted this blend to add some fruity sweetness to the flavours that form the base of Fanatic. Expect notes of orange layered onto the smooth, chocolatey base of our SanCoffee Caramelo Brazilian beans, resulting in an eclectic combination. ECLECTIC AT A GLANCE Roast ...Description from Roaster
We've crafted this blend to add some fruity sweetness to the flavours that form the base of Fanatic. Expect notes of orange layered onto the smooth, chocolatey base of our SanCoffee Caramelo Brazilian beans, resulting in an eclectic combination.
ECLECTIC AT A GLANCE
Roast Medium Process Pulped Natural, Washed Origins Brazil - SanCoffee Caramelo, Minas Gerais
Ethiopia - Taferi Kela Lot 29, Sidamo
Cup score 82.5 / 86.75 Tasting notes Milk Chocolate - Caramel - Orange Best enjoyed With or without milk
ABOUT THE PRODUCERS
Our Brazil component now comes from SanCoffee, a speciality coffee cooperative founded in 2000 in the Campo das Vertentes region of Minas Gerais. Caramelo is one of the cooperative’s core coffees, produced using pulped natural processing and built around the classic characteristics that make Brazilian coffees so dependable in espresso blends: notes of nuts, toffee and molasses, with a dense, creamy body. The coffee is sourced exclusively from cooperative members in the same region each year, helping deliver consistency from harvest to harvest while maintaining full traceability back to the producers involved.
What drew us to SanCoffee goes beyond the cup profile. The cooperative was created with a long-term focus on quality, transparency and sustainability, and today works with growers across the region to improve access to speciality coffee markets and increase returns at farm level. SanCoffee estimates that around 85% of the FOB value returns to producers after export and logistics costs, and the cooperative has also invested heavily in environmental and social initiatives, including becoming carbon neutral in 2020 and supporting smaller growers through its Beyond Borders programme.
Our Ethiopia component comes Taferi Kela in the Sidamo region.
This particular lot was grown by community farmers in Taferi Kela and processed by Bette Buna at their washing station. Bette Buna literally translates to ‘House of Coffee’ and this company has been deeply rooted in the village for generations.
With Bette Buna, the traceability is exceptional. Every lot specifically tracks and maps the people involved at each stage of production, from the people who picked the cherries to those who processed and milled the coffee. This level of transparency is almost unheard of in Ethiopia.
It’s a classic washed Ethiopian coffee: First depulped, then fermented for 24-36 hrs depending on the temperature. The different ‘lots’ are different processing runs that happened over the course of the season.
This description comes from Magnetic North Coffee, who roasts this coffee. For the fullest product detail, you can also see their own listing at Magnetic North Coffee
Ways to Brew
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Espresso
An intense, concentrated brewing method that forces hot water through finely-ground coffee under high pressure. This produces a small, powerful shot with rich crema, serving as the foundation for countless coffee drinks while delivering bold flavors and aromatic complexity.
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Aeropress
An innovative, portable brewing device that uses air pressure to extract coffee quickly and efficiently. This versatile method allows for experimentation with brewing times and techniques, producing anything from espresso-style concentrates to smooth, full-flavored cups with remarkable consistency.
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French Press
A French Press (or Cafetiere) is a simple, manual coffee maker that brews rich, full-bodied coffee by steeping coarse grounds in hot water, then separating them by pressing a mesh filter down with a plunger, allowing the coffee's natural oils and sediment to remain for a bolder flavour.
Magnetic North Coffee
Magnetic North was established in 2025, and is the result of a nearly two-decade journey that’s taken its founder, Fede, from Montevideo to Madrid, London, and finally Yorkshire. We exist to champion better coffee and better business in the North. And we do this by roasting some of the best speciality coffee you can have, in Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
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