Reading: Blog post about our house blend approach.
-Currently, the blend contains a regional lot of Colombia Supremo washed scr. 17/18 and Honduras Clementino Ramirez - anaerobic washed typica.
Producers: Clementino Ramirez
Location: Selguapa, Comayagua, Honduras
Farm: La Fortuna (2.5 ha)
Processing: Anaerobic washed
Cultivar: Typica
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Processing details: Cherries are picked daily by a team of 4 pickers, floated to remove defects, and then stored in sealed plastic bags where they undergo low oxygen fermentation under shade for 48 hours. The cherries are then depulped and placed back into bags where they ferment for an additional 48 hours. The seeds are then washed and moved to raised drying beds in full sun for four days where they are dried until the moisture is reduced enough to move them down to Jesus de Otoro at the central drying station of the Ramirez / Galeas family. The parchment is placed again on raised beds under shade and is slowly dried for 25 - 30 days before being stored in hermetically sealed bags to preserve their quality.
About Supremo Scr. 17/18:
Producers: Various
Various farms from: Huila, Antioquia, Tolima, Cauca, Eje Cafetero, Valle del Cauca, Santander, Nariño
MASL: 1250-2150
Processing: Fully washed
Variety: Bourbon, Castillo, Caturra, Colombia, Typica
After processing and milling, beans are graded according to size. The process of separating beans by size is a crucial stage of the dry milling process. A screen grading machine has a series of screens stacked on top of each other. Green coffee is fed into the machine, and as the screens are shaken, beans that are smaller than holes on a specific screen will fall through to a lower screen until they reach a screen with holes too small for them to fit.
17/18 screens have holes that are no smaller than 6.7 millimeters. Therefore, all beans in a Supremo Scr. 17/18 blend will be larger than 6.7 millimeters.
Coffee in Colombia
Colombia has been producing and exporting coffee renowned for their full body, bright acidity and rich aftertaste, since the early 19th century.
Colombia boasts a wide range of climates and geographic conditions that, in turn, produce their own unique flavors in coffee. This also means that harvest times can vary quite a bit. In fact, between all its different regions, Colombia produces fresh crop nearly all year round.
The increasing focus on the specialty industry is changing the way traders and farmers do business. It is becoming more common for farmers to isolate the highest quality beans in their lots to market separately. These higher-quality lots are often sold under specific brands or stories.