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Version 14 is a banger - 25% Rwanda FW, 25% Peru AW, 50% Brazil Nat. Medium to Heavy Roaster influence - solid milk espresso choice but great across all purposes.

Roasted to produce a solid “house espresso”, with distinct chocolate and darker fruit notes, an all-rounder suitable for milk, alt-milk and black coffees. Coffees seasonally sourced to ensure consistent core flavours year round.

A continuation of Osito's first regional blend from the Cerrado Minero region. Real classic Brazil blender vibes - milk choc fruit & nut bar.
Joining the fray - honestly, Chacra is spoiling us all silly on this lot - an anoxic washed Caturra, fresh crop, outrageously good, from a 2420 MASL farm (!!) we had the volume to commit to take the lot in one which made it affordable for Facility. One of the very first Peruvian coffees we bought was a regional blender built by Simon, and while this is heaps better it's nice to bring our sourcing relationship full circle.

Maintaining its spot in the blend - but swapping to the FW version, with a more developed larger batch profile to the house filter iteration - fresh crop Gito from Raw Material/Muraho trading company. This project takes the output from all the Muraho stations during the milling process, taking small-screen size beans and separating them out into a regional lot. These beans previously would have not been sorted to an export grade level and sold internally - despite being just as good as the larger screen size lots! They are mostly peaberries and when export sorted (density/colour) incredibly good quality.

We're returning to a run of Burundi and Rwanda again for the winter to spring season. There is no two ways about it - by engaging with meaningful purchase volumes from these countries, you will hit the odd potato. Running a higher ratio of Brazil will reduce it, and all the partners we purchase from have excellent sorting that reduce the incidence further. We recommend discarding any you find and giving a little extra purge, they should be very infrequent; using a tupperware to hold the discard grounds instead of an open knock box can be a useful trick.

We're tasting: Super sweet - we're getting milk chocolate, stewed apples and plums, with a syrupy body with a long toffee & baking spice finish
In milk: Apple pie & golden syrup

Anoxic Washed, Gesha, Lightest Roast Influence - Best brewed with Filter
3 key notes: [Tangerine, Honeysuckle, Elderflower]

We've been working with Osito since we started, and they're one of our key supply chain partners. For the past 4 years (and some years before that with smaller regional events), Osito have run the "Copa de Oro" competition in Colombia - running over the 3 main regions they buy coffee from. This is the first year Copa de Oro lots have come to the UK/EU (typically they'd all been snaffled by the US), and we were very lucky to secure 2 of those - including this overall grand champion - first place central region and top overall - lot from Hugo González. A banger and top example of excellent Colombian Gesha

We're tasting:
Huge floral aromatics - we're finding fresh elderflower blossoms, honeysuckle and magnolia. In the cup it's creamy and very sweet - we find fresh tangerine, honeydew melon, and loquat, with a zippy white wine acidity. As it cools becoming more delicate - we find white tea, lemongrass, and dried jasmine.

V16: Peru Gesha - Bioreactor + Anoxic Washed:
Ripe cherries pulped and placed in a bioreactor, and inoculated from a mosto made from previous batches (both washed & natural) for a 72 hr fermentation in an anoxic environment. Parchment then washed and dried in a parabolic drier over 15 days.Traditional Washed + Kenya Batian, Ruiru 11 - Koji Inoculated Anoxic Natural: Ripe cherries are delivered to the washing station and are sorted and floated on arrival, before moving to fermentation barrels. The cherries are inoculated with Koji (A. oryzae) and fermented in an anoxic environment for 96 hrs, with continual agitation of the barrels. Cherries then drained and dried on raised beds.

Light Roaster Influence - great for filter/espresso. Excellent batch or guest espresso option.

Sourcing coffees that are exceptionally vibrant, bright and intensely expressive, then blending them together for a raucous cacophony of flavour. This blend will be an exploration of modern processing and vibrancy, a year round staple of intense fruit-forward notes. Coffee in full Colour, not just black and white.

We're tasting: Aromatics of foam sweets, strawberry laces and lemon/ginger tea. In the cup it's super sweet and bright, with milk chocolate as well as blackberry & redcurrant jam as the dominant notes. There's a spicy/savoury note that reminds us of gingersnap biscuits and preserved lemon. As it cools becoming more like dried strawberries, with earl grey and chinotto soda.

Variety: Pink Bourbon
Country: Colombia
Region: El Cerrito, La Plata, Huila
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1850 MASL
Producer: Elder Castro Garcia
Farm: Finca Las Acacias
Roast Level: Light

Award
4th place award at the Western Copa de Oro competition.

In the cup
We taste fresh red fruits that remind us of raspberries and strawberries, a balanced sweetness reminiscent of candy floss, and delicate black tea. This coffee has a light body and a round finish.

About The Producer
Elder Castro Garcia is a coffee producer from the rural township of El Cerrito in La Plata. He has approximately 5,000 two to five-year-old trees per hectare, regularly growing Colombia, Geisha, Pink Bourbon, and Sidra varieties. He also grows avocados and sells them locally.

Processing
This Pink Bourbon micro lot is hand-selected and brought in from the field by local and itinerant pickers. They are then floated to remove any lower-density beans before being placed in plastic bags for 36 hours. They are then de-pulped fully and dry-fermented for another 40 hours. The coffee parchment is then rinsed and placed on raised beds in a parabolic greenhouse dryer for 15 to 20 days to dry.