Hey Cinnamon Cup Coffee community! It's been a while since I last wrote in this cozy space. My work as a researcher and teacher has left me very little time to discover and experience new coffee brands. However, this week I had the opportunity to attend a mini coffee exhibition at the Faculty where I work, and I was given this coffee called San Domingo: Guayoyo Dulce.

I had heard of this coffee brand before. San Domingo is one of the many coffee brands that have experienced a boom in the last seven years. This brand, in particular, has been around for 70 years, but the strong monopoly held by the only two coffee brands with national distribution prevented these small coffee houses from becoming known. When the economic crisis and shortages in our country hit, brands like San Domingo coffee had the opportunity to fill a gap in the market and make themselves known.

The success of this brand has led it to diversify, and one of its newest offerings is this sweet version called "Guayoyoyo." This refers to a very Venezuelan expression that dates back to the colonial period and, as I've mentioned in previous reviews, is reminiscent of our past as a coffee power when we were a colony during the Spanish Empire. A guayoyo is a type of coffee prepared with a significant amount of water, which ends up producing a diluted coffee with a fairly mild flavor. This method of preparing coffee was part of the protocols for good courtesy when receiving guests, so this word is part of our identity and was the reason why I decided to give this San Domingo version a try.

We then proceeded to open the packaging of this coffee and the first thing that caught my attention was its light hue, unlike other brands that I have reviewed that are quite dark, this one stands out for its clarity but I suppose that if we are going to make a guayoyo, that is to say a light and smooth coffee it is not necessary to use such robust ground coffee beans, another detail is that the packaging tells us that it already has sugar and it makes sense because a guayoyo is a form of light coffee sweetened with sugar so it may not be to the taste of those coffee purists.

I decided to prepare this coffee with 4.5 tablespoons of coffee. I did this because I didn't know how light the coffee would be and I was worried that it would end up being extremely diluted, which would end up distorting its flavor. On the other hand, the aroma of the ground coffee was quite pleasant and very mild; I prepared the equivalent of 2 cups.

When it finished brewing, I could now have my first impression of the coffee: its aroma and appearance. Its aroma is exactly as described on the packaging, very mild, and you can even taste the sweetness, so there's no need to add sugar. Its appearance was exactly what I was looking for, one that wasn't so clear. I made this coffee in the afternoon to go with some bread I bought, but then my nephew arrived with a chocolate bar he'd been looking for for weeks, so we took advantage of the opportunity to do a mini unboxing before trying the coffee.

You can't imagine, friends, how excited our nephew was about this chocolate. It turns out this product is promoted by a very famous YouTuber whom my nephew follows. Like a religious fanatic, when he found out he was selling these chocolates, he decided to get them or find an online store that would bring them to Venezuela. That's when he found a place that was selling them, so he literally dragged his grandmother to go buy them. They brought it just as I was about to try the coffee, so we paired the coffee with this chocolate.

And so we spent the afternoon, friends, with a good cup of coffee accompanied by sweet bread and Featables chocolates. As for the coffee, I'm pretty sure the people who created this coffee presentation achieved what they were looking for: a very smooth coffee that emulated the flavor notes of a Guayoyo coffee. I give it an 8/10 since I like my coffee dark and strong. As for the hot chocolate, I give it a 5/10, nothing special. Perhaps in the next post I'll review a coffee with authentic Venezuelan chocolate, considered the best in the world.

With that, I conclude this combined coffee/chocolate review, friends. Although I appreciate strong coffees with a deep flavor, I greatly appreciate the effort this brand is making to revive our coffee-growing past. Guayoyo is a Spanish version of an indigenous expression and a very important aspect of our Venezuelan identity, well worth trying. See you in a future review, friends. Cheers and good luck.

Que tal comunidad de Cinamon Cup Coffee ha pasado un tiempo desde que escribí en este acogedor espacio, mi trabajo como investigador y docente me ha dejado muy poco tiempo para conocer y experimentar nuevas marcas de café, pero esta semana tuve la oportunidad de estar en una mini exposición de café en la Facultad donde trabajo y me han obsequiado este café llamado San Domingo: Guayoyo Dulce.

Ya conocía esta marca de café anteriormente, San Domingo es una de las muchas marcas de café que han tenido un auge estos últimos 7 años, en particular esta marca existe desde hace 70 años pero el fuerte monopolio que tenían las únicas 2 marcas de café con distribución nacional le impedían a estas casas comerciales pequeñas darse a conocer. Cuando estallo la crisis económica y la escases en nuestro país, marcas como el café San Domingo tuvieron la oportunidad de llenar un vacío en el mercado y darse a conocer.

El éxito de esta marca le ha llevado diversificarse y una de sus novedades es esta presentación llamada "Guayoyoyo" dulce, esto hace referencia a una expresión muy venezolana que viene desde la colonia y es como ya he mencionado en reseñas anteriores una reminiscencia a nuestro pasado como potencia cafetera cuando éramos colonia en tiempos del imperio español. Un guayoyo es una forma de café preparado con un volumen importante de agua lo que termina produciendo un forma de café diluido con un sabor bastante suave. Esta forma de preparar el café formaba parte de los protocolos de buena cortesía cuando se recibían visitas, por lo que esta palabra forma parte de nuestra identidad y fue la razón por la que decidí darle una oportunidad a esta presentación del San Domingo.

Procedimos entonces abrir el empaque de este café y lo primero que me llamo la atención fue su tonalidad clara, a diferencia de otras marcas que he reseñado que son bastante oscuros este destaca por su claridad pero supongo que si vamos hacer un guayoyo, es decir un café claro y suave no es necesario usar granos de café molido tan robusto, otro detalle es que el empaque nos dice que ya tiene azúcar y tiene sentido porque un guayoyo es una forma de café ligero endulzado con azúcar por lo que quizás no sea del gusto de aquellos puristas del café.

Decidí preparar este café con 4 cucharadas y media de café, esto lo hice porque no sabía que tan claro quedaría el café y me preocupaba que terminara saliendo un café extremadamente diluido que terminara desvirtuando su sabor. Por otro lado el olor del café molido era bastante agradable y muy suave, preparé el equivalente a 2 tazas.

Cuando terminó de colarse puede ahora si tener mi primera aproximación con el café: la aromática y de aspecto. Su aroma es tal cual como nos lo describe el empaque, muy suave e incluso puedes notar el dulzor, asi que no hizo falta agregar azúcar. Su aspecto era el que precisamente estaba buscando uno que no fuera tan claro. Este café lo preparé en la tarde para acompañarlo con un pan que compre pero entonces llego mi sobrino con un chocolate que estaba buscando durante semanas, así que aprovechamos el momento para hacer un mini unboxing antes de probar el café.

No se imaginan amigos como nos tenía nuestro sobrino con este chocolate, resulta que este producto es promovido por un youtuber muy famoso que sigue mi sobrino cual fanático religioso al saber que estaba vendiendo estos chocolates se propuso conseguirlos o encontrar una tienda online que los trajera a Venezuela y justo este día encontró un lugar que los traía para la venta así que literalmente arrastró a la abuela para irlos a comprar. Fue así que lo trajeron justo cuando estaba por probar el café así que acompañamos el café con este chocolate.

Y así pasamos la tarde amigos, con una buena taza de café acompañado de pan dulce y chocolates Featables. Con respecto al café estoy muy seguro que los que hicieron esta presentación de café consiguieron lo que estaban buscando un café muy suave que emulara las nota de sabores de un café guayoyo, le doy un 8/10 ya que a mi el café me gusta es oscuro y bien cargado. Con respecto al chocolate, le doy un 5/10 no es nada especial, quizás en el próximo post les haga una reseña de un café con un verdadero chocolate venezolano considerados los mejores del mundo.

With that, I conclude this combined coffee/chocolate review, friends. Although I appreciate strong coffees with a deep flavor, I greatly appreciate the effort this brand is making to revive our coffee-growing past. Guayoyo is a Spanish version of an indigenous expression and a very important aspect of our Venezuelan identity, well worth trying. See you in a future review, friends. Cheers and good luck.

The images and video for the reviews were taken from my Redmi 9c cell phone and the translation was done with the Deepl translate.