# Our New 2020 Spring Blend

## A coffee of comfort and hope

Think of our new [2020 Spring Blend](/content/store/spring-blend/index.html) as the coffee equivalent of wearing a cozy cotton sweater on a cool day while lifting your face to the sun. Even amidst so much uncertainty, we can count on this season to inspire feelings of renewal.

### How We Created It

Despite the longer days, there’s still a chill in the air until the Earth goes full tilt on its axis. “To capture that feeling of winter transitioning to summer, we blended a comforting coffee we crave during the cold months with something brighter and full of hope—a mellow, brown-sugar Brazil and a vibrant, floral coffee from Rwanda,” says Blue Bottle green coffee buyer Shaun Puklavetz.

When his team builds coffees inspired by the seasons, he says they look toward coffees with a bit more vibrancy as the days become less cold. “There’s a sensory connection we have between the acidity of coffee and the warming weather,” Shaun says. (Think of how lemonade tastes extra refreshing on a hot summer day but too chilling and unappealing when it snows.) In coffeespeak, we call this acidity “brightness.”

### How to Brew It

Like many of our coffees, our Spring Blend tastes wonderful, with a little more snappy tartness and dark earthiness, when brewed hot, [as a pour over](/content/store/blue-bottle-pour-over-kit/index.html). (Learn [how to make pour over coffee.](/content/preparation-guides/pour-over/index.html)) It’s also lovely and buoyant with a silkier body and mellower acidity when steeped [as a cold brew and chilled](/content/store/hario-cold-brew-bottle?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1Iv0BRDaARIsAGTWD1vkZhcL_2DPCMdzWDk1Fhx2DQku-nD7XhH1ahec9NkmMU5IT3sgcOgaAtoCEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&gclsrc=aw.ds). (Learn [how to make iced coffee](/content/preparation-guides/cold-brew-bottle/index.html), aka cold brew.)

### About Our Seasonal Blend Series

We think of our Seasonal Blends as immersive experiences. To help evoke the feeling of each season, we used the [Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel,](https://sca.coffee/research/coffee-tasters-flavor-wheel) developed by the [Specialty Coffee Association](https://sca.coffee/) and [World Coffee Research](https://worldcoffeeresearch.org/). This tool links colors to flavors and helps professionals to build a shared lexicon with coffee drinkers everywhere.

Colors like pale yellow, tawny amber, and blush pink allude to Spring Blend’s arc of flavor that begins with notes of wildflower honey and a soothing butter toffee-like sweetness from the Brazil. Its flourish of florality at the end comes thanks to the gorgeous washed Bourbon from Rwanda.