Café Intención coffee beans

Two blends, both as whole beans

At Café du Jour, Café Intención comes as coffee beans in 1 kg bags. That makes it a natural fit for a bean-to-cup machine or for an espresso machine with its own grinder: you grind just before brewing, which keeps the aroma in the bag until you need it. The two blends differ mainly in intensity.

Café Intención Crema Aromatico

Aromatico has a balanced, aromatic character. The flavour is mild and approachable, with a gentle finish. Choose it for longer cups, such as a caffè crema from a bean-to-cup machine, or if you mostly drink your coffee with milk: in a cappuccino or latte it stays soft and rounded.

Café Intención Intensivo

Intensivo is the fuller of the two, with more depth, but not overpowering. It used to be sold as Café Intención Espresso, and a short espresso is still where it does best: a pronounced flavour with a good crema. It also gives a flat white or a lungo enough backbone.

Can't decide?

The Café Intención sample pack holds two 1 kg bags of coffee beans. It is the easiest way to try the brand at home before you settle on one blend.

Which one suits your machine? If you mostly make large cups or milk drinks on a bean-to-cup machine, start with Aromatico. If you pull short espressos on a machine with its own grinder, start with Intensivo. Making both at home or in the office? Then the sample pack is the sensible first order.

• Crema Aromatico: balanced and aromatic, mild; for longer cups and milk drinks
• Intensivo (previously Espresso): fuller and more intense; for espresso and strong milk drinks
• Sample pack: two 1 kg bags to get to know the range

Where the coffee comes from

The beans come from small farming families who work together in co-operatives, in countries such as Honduras and Peru. These co-operatives meet strict organic and Fairtrade standards. Organic cultivation means the coffee is grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilisers.

Would you like to compare it with other coffee from the same part of the world? See our coffee from Peru, or browse all organic coffee beans.

At home, in the office or behind the bar

A 1 kg bag suits a household that drinks a few cups a day, an office machine or a café. For hospitality, the certification is part of the story you can tell your guests, and two blends are enough to cover both the espresso and the milk drinks on a menu.

Setting the grinder for each blend

Both blends come as whole beans only, so the grinder does the work. Intensivo is the one to dial in for espresso: if a double shot runs fast and tastes thin, go a step finer; if it barely drips, go coarser. Aromatico needs less fuss. On a bean-to-cup machine, start at a medium setting for a caffè crema. In a cafetière or filter, both blends work ground coarser, and Aromatico gives the softer cup of the two.