For those who enjoy the taste of milk chocolate, Samurai Shoelace offers Bean Candy - a coffee that feels almost like a sweet treat. With its pleasantly sweet-citrus and honeyed notes, soft body, and balanced finish, it pairs wonderfully with a little milk, creating a flavor experience reminiscent of a snack. Interestingly, when tasted first as an espresso and then with added milk, the cup reveals such different sides that it feels like drinking two distinct coffees. (These are the coffee's natural flavors - no additives, just high-quality beans.)
Of all Samurai Shoelace coffees, Bean Candy is the lightest roast. This means it avoids bitter, burnt aftertastes and preserves the coffee's natural sweetness and acidity. Countless experiments went into perfecting the roast profile, which has helped make Bean Candy one of the brand's most popular capsules.
While its soft flavor might suggest a "lighter" coffee, the caffeine content matches that of the other Samurai Shoelace capsules. The beans come from El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, yet one with an outsized influence on global coffee production. Despite its size, the country exports significant amounts of coffee, and all of it belongs to the higher quality segment.
In El Salvador, most coffee is shade-grown, hand-picked, and cultivated on family-owned farms. Since the Civil War, legislation has limited the maximum farm size to 245 hectares, with 90% of farms being smaller than 20 hectares, making large-scale plantations impossible. Several Arabica varieties are grown, but Bourbon dominates, representing around 60% of the crop and it's Bourbon beans that make up Bean Candy.
These beans are sourced from the Concepción de Ataco region, located 1,100 meters above sea level. The combination of abundant sunshine and up to 1,900 mm of annual rainfall creates ideal conditions for developing coffees with a distinctly light, citrusy, and sweet flavor which is the very character that Bean Candy captures in every capsule.
