Honey de Santa María - Orgánico
Forestal - Grupo café- 2 sales on Algrano
- 1 Avg. orders per roaster
- 2 Roaster relationships
- Origin
- Colombia
- Producer
- Forestal - Grupo café
- Variety
- Castillo
- Process type
- Semi-Washed
- Altitude range
- 1750m - 1750m
- Harvest period
- November, 2019 - November, 2019
- Seller's cupping score (SCA)
-
84.0
points
Updated January, 2020
- ID
- CO-42-201911
"This honey lot is a blend of 3 separate micro-lots with a similar fruity profile from Finca Santa María, in the town of Zapatoca. The farm is located near the Yariguies Serrania reserve and shares the rich ecosystem of the tropical Andean forest, which we help preserve and restore. Santa María is managed by Oswaldo Ardila and his family, overseers of all the farm's work. Oswaldo helped me in the post-harvest of this lot, from choosing which lots to harvest with his Brix meter to making sure drying was even. We selected only ripe cherries from a Castillo lot, which went through a double fermentation process: first in cherry and later in mucilage. The cherries are left to rest inside mesh bags for one day, depulped and fermented up to 3 days in a tank without water. The coffee is then moved to raised beds in a marquesina dedicated to micro-lots, where we control the temperature and levels of moisture in the air. Air humidity can be deadly to good coffees. Whenever we notice dangerous levels we open the marquesina to improve circulation. It takes around 8 days to complete de drying process depending on the climate, but the intense sun radiation we get in Santander is perfect for natural drying!" - Forestal - Grupo café, January, 2020
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