Colombia– Cauca Honey

Yellow Peach, Sweet Orange Cream, Hard Candy, Vanilla Cake We are excited to present this very special limited coffee. This community blend is traceable to 4 producers with small farms in the municipality of Popayán within the department of Cauca. Each producer carefully harvests cherries and delivers them to a centrally located mill for post harvest processing. Honey processed and dried inside solar dryers that provide protection from the rain. The centralized processing allows for a greater investment in infrastructure and consistent processing. This mill uses technology to sort cherries based on pH, Brix, and acidity testing before depulping the cherries. Next the coffee is fermented in sealed bioreactors where the microbial environment can be controlled. Once fermentation has been completed, the coffee drying process is started, skipping the washing stage to conserve water. Drying is done in a controlled environment where temperature is kept in a range of 30 to 35 degrees and compressed air with a low relative humidity is circulated through the solar dryers to achieve slow and uniform drying.