I have to admit that I had never heard of Puro until they got in touch. That’s because you normally find their coffee in Gourmet Burger Kitchen or The National Trust. Puro have a great attitude towards the environment and the rainforests and all their coffee is fair trade and organic. For every cup of coffee sold money goes back into protecting the rainforests in South America.
We weren’t sure which coffee to try first so we went with Puro Fuerte. This is a 50:50 blend of Arabica and Robusta coffee beans from Guatamala, Peru, Honduras and Congo. I thought this one had a deep coffee flavour that was smooth and rich. This blend was my favourite of the three.
The next coffee was Puro Noble, an 80% Arabica, 20% Robusta blend from the same countries as the Fuerte. This coffee has the most crema form on the top of the coffee in the French press. I found this blend to have a slight bitterness with not as much intense coffee flavour as the other two.
The last of the three coffees was Puro Organic. This was 100% Arabica from Peru and Honduras. This one had a slightly spicy flavour and was nice and smooth.
I am big on gulping coffee. Definitely tempting and need to find out further about the brand.
I LOVE my morning coffee and this one sounds right up my ally. Reminds me that I need to get a coffee plunger…
I am a coffee fiend. /addict. One of the two. 😛 This sounds awesome!
Addicted to my morning coffee and hadn’t heard of puro, will look out now. Love the fact that you’ve made a cake with it! Looks excellent too, think I’ve looked at that recipe in my Nigel Slater book and never tried it, must give it a go with my beetroot.
Haha, Jane was given the same trio a couple of months back! She doesn’t often drink coffee, but I do, and I tried them in the same order as you. I definitely liked the Fuerte best. Puro doesn’t seem to be available to private individuals, only to the trade (unless you know better…?)
I am always looking to try a new coffee. Thanks for this review!
Hey Caroline, thanks for the review! It’s interesting to see that you liked Fuerte the best. The National Trust chose this blend too.
@Mark, yes you are spot on, currently only available to the trade, but we are just launching retail stands that will enable some of them to sell Puro Fairtrade Coffee for home consumption. We should be putting something on our facebook page – facebook.com/fairtradecoffee relatively soon.
love a good coffee :_)
Oooh that’s really got me craving coffee and cake! I will put that on my shopping list 🙂
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