Floripondio - Pacamara ( Filter Roasted )

COUNTRY: Bolivia

DEPARTMENT: Santa Cruz

PROVINCE: Florida

TOWN: Samaipata

ELEVATION: 1,710m above sea level

VARIETY: Pacamara

PROCESSING: Special Preparation Washed

FARM OWNERS: Los Rodríguez Family

This special microlot comes from Floripondio, one of four farms owned and operated by the Rodríguez family in Bolivia’s Samaipata region. Floripondio gets its name from the Floripondio flowers (commonly known as Angel’s Trumpet in English) that are native to the area and grow throughout the farm.

At all of the Rodríguez farms, Pedro hires pickers that are trained to select only the very ripest cherries, and multiple passes are made through the farm throughout the harvest to ensure the coffee is picked at its prime. The Rodríguez family has found that the very ripest (almost purple) cherries provide the best cup.

After being inspected and weighed, cherries were carefully sorted by weight using water, and floaters were removed. Following this, the coffee was disinfected, in a similar process used for wine grapes. Cherries were then placed whole, with their skin intact, to ferment under controlled temperature and pH conditions in the family’s polyurethane tanks. For this lot, mill manager Jair Gonzales prepared a solution (which the Rodríguez family call coffee ‘mosto’) with a carefully calculated level of lactic bacteria harvested from the farm and cultivated in a controlled environment and added it to the tanks — catalysing a controlled fermentation that lasted 48 hours. Encouraging the production of lactic acid is key, as the Rodríguez believe this step adds a silky mouthfeel and creamy character to the coffee’s flavour profile.

Once the desired fermentation was complete, cherries were washed with fresh, clean water and pulped, removing all remaining mucilage, and carefully machine-dried for 110 hours using a ‘guardiola,’ a horizontal, rotating drum that gets rid of moisture by creating a warm, consistent flow of air around the coffee. Drying was finished off using Agricafe’s famous coco dryers, until parchment reached 11.5% humidity.

RECOMMENDED Suitable for Filter brewing methods and French press.

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