Colombia / Transformation Blend
Regular price
$23.50
This washed coffee is one of our favorites! It features a complex, sweet, and floral profile with a creamy body and lingering caramel aftertaste. We roast this coffee on the light side of medium, which brings out just enough sweetness and depth to accentuate those delicate floral top notes.
This lot from our friends at Unblended is composed of coffees from many of the women producers they work with in Colombia. Their mentorship program supports the development of women producers by offering them a platform to enhance their farms, knowledge, and skills in specialty coffee. This blend consists primarily of chiroso, a naturally occurring gesha-like variety discovered and cultivated by one of the local women farmers. With the more familiar castillo variety providing a stable base, the chiroso lends this blend its lovely floral quality.
ORIGIN: Colombia
PRODUCER: Various
FARM: Young Producers Program
VARIETY: Chiroso, Castillo
PROCESS: Washed
REGION: Andes, Antioquia, Colombia
ALTITUDE: 1800-2000 masl
Regular price
$23.50
This washed coffee is one of our favorites! It features a complex, sweet, and floral profile with a creamy body and lingering caramel aftertaste. We roast this coffee on the light side of medium, which brings out just enough sweetness and depth to accentuate those delicate floral top notes.
This lot from our friends at Unblended is composed of coffees from many of the women producers they work with in Colombia. Their mentorship program supports the development of women producers by offering them a platform to enhance their farms, knowledge, and skills in specialty coffee. This blend consists primarily of chiroso, a naturally occurring gesha-like variety discovered and cultivated by one of the local women farmers. With the more familiar castillo variety providing a stable base, the chiroso lends this blend its lovely floral quality.
ORIGIN: Colombia
PRODUCER: Various
FARM: Young Producers Program
VARIETY: Chiroso, Castillo
PROCESS: Washed
REGION: Andes, Antioquia, Colombia
ALTITUDE: 1800-2000 masl
Future Farmers
These coffees are sourced from farmers who represent the next generation, such as women-owned farms and youth programs.
Female property ownership, still a rarity in many places, helps to improve income equality and self-determination for women throughout the community. Youth-focused programs encourage younger farmers to get into today's coffee market, with its focus on experimentation and quality, as an opportunity to make their mark.
New Varietals
These newly developed hybrid strains have been carefully bred to deliver excellent cup quality alongside greater resilience to droughts, heavy rains, higher temperatures, pests and diseases.
Existing Arabica varietals can’t tolerate the shift to hotter, drier weather that many traditional coffee-producing areas are experiencing. Buying these special coffees builds market demand, providing farmers with the security they need to make the investment.
Air Roasted to Perfection
We use 100% electric, clean air roasting for our coffees.
Air roasting works by suspending the beans in a column of hot air, allowing them to roast more evenly and consistently without picking up unwanted flavors or defects that can happen with drum roasters. Our roasters are designed to produce safe, low-temperature, clean exhaust without filters, catalyzers or afterburners.
Altogether, this means that we can roast clean-tasting coffees more consistently using less energy and with lower emissions than conventional methods.
Circular Packaging
Our coffee cans are manufactured in the USA from 100% domestically sourced steel.
Why steel? Unlike plastic and paper, it's infinitely recyclable and is recovered at a higher rate (72%) than any other food packaging material. It's also the ideal barrier for keeping oxygen, moisture and light away from the beans inside. This, plus an integrated valve, means our coffee stays fresher longer.
