The Future - Chocolate Covered Strawberries

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The Future has been a beloved staple on our year-round menu for quite awhile now. With it, we have been able to showcase excellence in processing techniques, particularly in regard to anaerobic and co-fermentation endeavors. Our goal with each of these unique blends is to elevate flavor as the guiding principle for each creation.

HOW WE GOT HERE | Before most of us had enough time to take down our Christmas decorations and toast to 2025, another holiday was already infiltrating retail shelves and inboxes. Perhaps the most commercialized holiday of them all, Valentine's Day is often maligned as little more than a "Hallmark holiday" designed to sell greeting cards and guilt significant others into buying overpriced flowers.

Still, Valentine's Day has given us a lot of great things, like candy hearts, boxes full of chocolate, and a delightful 2010 rom-com starring Patrick Dempsey (and pretty much everyone else in Hollywood). It also gives us an excuse to indulge in what is - genuinely - one of our world's most excellent flavor combinations: chocolate-covered strawberries.

HOW WE DID IT | Given that both chocolate and berries are flavor notes often found in our coffees, we couldn't resist the opportunity to showcase both in this month's Future releases. To accomplish this, we blended a natural Pacamara lot from El Salvador, a berry-forward coffee from our friends at Forest, and (of course!) a strawberry co-fermented coffee from Quindío. Jorge Raul Rivera's Pacamara coffee is intensely chocolate-y, and it works perfectly alongside one of our favorite blend components around here - Sebastian Ramirez's renown Red Fruits. Forest Coffee's "Lot 553" lends even more berry flavors to the blend. As it turned out, the three coffees go together just about as well as... chocolate and strawberries.

• 50% Jorge Raul Rivera - Natural Pacamara
• 25% Sebastian Ramirez - Red Fruits
• 25% Forest Coffee - Marion Lot 553

TAKE A SIP | In terms of flavor, this coffee is bookended by the components of its namesake. On the nose, you'll immediately experience a pronounced strawberry aroma, and the first sip is fresh and sweet, reminding us of fresh strawberries. That sweetness lingers throughout, joining forces with stone fruit notes to give us something like peach syrup. The finish is silky and, yes, still sweet, reminding us of complex craft chocolate - similar to the kind you can only find at bean-to-bar operations, like our beloved Videri Chocolate Factory here in Raleigh. Enjoy, lovers.

Origin | Chalatenango, El Salvador | Quindío, Colombia

Process | Natural | Co-ferment

Variety | Pacamara | Caturra