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Edgar Erazo's coffee was our first step towards selling directly sourced coffees, through the help of our friends Kevin Bohlin and Benjamin Paz. We are super excited to have this amazing example of a clean and sweet Santa Barbara Pacas coffee back this year.
This years lot is the best we have every tasted from Edgar. Big citrus like clementine and pineapple, super sweet dried apricot and dates, with a super sweet unrefined sugar sweetness. This lot is a bit smaller than last year as it was a difficult year for Santa Barbara. 2 Hurricanes hit the area in one month and decimated infrastructure all over the country but particularly in the coffee growing regions.
Check out @benjaminpaz on Instagram and support his gofundme if you can.
Farm: El Filo
Producer: Edgar Erazo
Variety: Pacas
Process: Washed
Elevation: 1750 masl
Note: We roast and ship Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Each year we choose a charity or non in-profit to work with around the world. This year we have chosen to partner with our friends at La Palma Y El Tucan and their project designed to give back to farmers called Biodiversal.
www.biodiversal.com
This project is designed around the concepts of Environmental Protection, and Food Sovereignty with the long term goal of giving people environmentally sustainable food systems and economic opportunity through agriculture, and short term goals of giving meaningful revenue streams through agricultural bio diversification.
All of our Holiday Coffees with feature coffees from Colombia as this is Biodiversal's main focus.
For our New Year's coffee this year we blended together three of our menu favorites. A floral and juicy Gesha from Gesha Village Coffee Estate, and the floral and sweet Jose Martinez, Pink Bourbon. We added in a juicy and rich Colombia coffee to give it pop from El Paraiso. These combine to make a truly beautiful blend of vibrant acidity and sweetness.
Region: Huila, Colombia and Gesha Village, Ethiopia
Process: Washed | Natural | Red Plum
Altitude: 1700 - 2100 MASL
Note: We roast and ship Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Olga Beltran - Bio Innovation
Regular price
$22.00
ROAST | LIGHT
LA PALMA Y EL TUCAN | NEIGHBORS & CROPS
BALSILLAS, COLOMBIA
NOTES: Apple, Fresh Strawberry, Apricot, White Wine
It is exciting to see Olga's name once again. We were sent samples from La Palma Y El Tucan bling (meaning we did not know the producer info or process. We only had a number to refer back to. Yet again on we chose Olga Beltrans coffee. Vibrant, Complex and Innovative.About 9 years ago, Olga and her husband decided to recover the traditional values of her grandparents, and return to the coffee growing tradition that she was born and raised in
This year marks the first year for La Palma to implement its new " Bio Innovation" process on select Lots of Neighbors and Crops coffees.
This process was inspired by the "old way" of making wine brought together with the new world of innovative yeast and bacteria collection. It goes like this. The team at La Palma Y El Tucan take whole cherry and place them in underground clay pots. In these clay pots is a selected and cultured set of microorganisms that thrive in cooler oxygen free environments. These organisms break down the natural sugars in the coffee fruit and turn them into complex acids and esters. These soak into the cherry and give us a cup profile that is like none other.
Vibrant white wine acidity, mixed with fresh strawberry, apricot, and apple flavors on the pallet that linger into a clean finish with more berries and a sweetness like vanilla.
This coffee is special and I am so glad that we get to share it with you.
Producer: Olga Beltran
Variety: Castillo
Farm: La Abuela
Process: Bio Innovation | Anaerobic
Elevation: 1750 MASL
Note: We roast and ship Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Every year LPET seems to elevate quality and consistency while isolating new flavor profiles within their Neighbors and Crops offerings. This year we were offered 2 amazing examples that further elevate LPET in our view as innovative coffee processors.
Julio's coffee was good on the pre-ship sample, but it wowed us on the arrival cupping table. Big fruit, complex acidity, and amazing sweetness with a cleanliness and clarity we did not expect from a coffee so fruity. Many of the flavors we expect to see from a Naturally Processed coffee but without any of that Natural Process heaviness that can be overbearing at times. This is a must try from our friends at LPET.
Julio Bermudez is a 62 year old farmer who had been growing coffee the past 16 years at his farm, El Refugio located in the municipality of La Mesa. This has truly been a family affair as his parents were farmers and now his two sons are also involved in the coffee production as well.
Big Fruit aromas, amazingly clean and vibrant acidity. This coffee bridges the gap between Washed and Natural process in a way that is surprising. Unmistakably fruity with vibrant acidy, and a beautiful clean finish. Truly a don't miss coffee.
Producer: Julio Bermudez
Variety: Castillo
Farm: El Refugio
Process: Lactic | Anaerobic
Elevation: 1650 MASL
Note: We roast and ship Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Gleidis Camacho - Delagua
Regular price
$20.00
ROAST | LIGHT MEDIUM
CERRO AZUL PARAMO, GOZEN, COLOMBIA
NOTES: FRESH CITRUS, MIXED BERRIES, VIBRANT
Gleidis' coffee is our second offering from our Friends at LPET's new project Delagua and it is a truly beautiful coffee. This coffee is vibrant and intensely fruity. Our cupping notes had almost every berry you can get at the grocery store, cranberry, strawberry, blackberry, blueberry, raspberry... SO, we just went with the ole trusty mixed berry. Compared to our first lot, Gleidis' Coffee is a bit cleaner with a more complex acidity, and more fresh fruit flavors. It is hard to pinpoint why this is, but the most obvious one is the elevation. Gleidis' coffee is grown much higher on the mountain which makes the coffee trees store nutrients in the seeds at a higher rate.
La Palma Y El Tucan's project, Delagua is intensely committed to the preservation of water, thus the name. This project works mostly in the dryer Northern Part of Colombia known as Sierra Nevada. This style of processing is much more sustainable to the environment as it doesn't dirty clean water to process coffee. However it takes a careful producer to make great natural coffees.
This is where La Palma steps in. They help producers by picking and processing the coffee on their behalf, therefore insuring immaculate processing and higher cup scores over all. This is a very similar process to the Neighbors & Crops Coffees we have bought over the last 3 years.
33 year old Doña Gleidis Reatiga, bought the farm about 8 years ago and has been producing coffee for the last 5 years. Her husband helps to manage the land and is charge of the handpicking process. He is currently training Doña Gleidis in management practices and cherry-picking.
Producer: Gleidis Patricia Reatiga Camacho
Variety: Castillo
PROCESS: Natural
ELEVATION: 1,730 masl
Note: We roast and ship Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
