Las Alasitas - Panama Gesha 100g ( Filter Roasted )

COUNTRY: Bolivia

DEPARTMENT: La Paz

PROVINCE: Caranavi

COLONIA: Bolinda

ELEVATION: 1,600-1,650m above sea level

VARIETY: Panama Gesha

PROCESSING: Washed (48hr ferment)

FARM OWNER: Los Rodriguez Family

Cherries for this lot were delivered to Agricafe’s state of the art mill Buena Vista in the evening. After being inspected and weighed, the coffee cherry was carefully sorted by weight using water and disinfected. Cherries were then placed whole, with their skin intact, to ferment under controlled temperature and pH conditions in the family’s brand new custom-built stainless steel tanks for 48 hours. Shutting the containers allows CO2 to build up, increasing the temperature and catalysing a process of intracellular fermentation.

For this lot, Buena Vista Manager and fermentation expert Adrián Silva prepared a solution (which the Rodríguez family call coffee ‘mosto’) with a carefully calculated level of the harvested bacteria or yeasts, and added it to the wet parchment as it was placed in sealed stainless steel tanks, catalysing a controlled fermentation. The team at Buena Vista made sure the lid remained shut for the full period of fermentation, to ensure no oxygen touched the cherries and that the punch-like, boozy aroma remained trapped inside.

The tanks were closely monitored throughout the ferment process and the coffee was removed when the desired fermentation was complete. The wet parchment was then washed with fresh, clean water 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.

 **NOTE FOR DELIVERY** An order placing BEFORE 2 PM will arrange on next day delivery. An order AFTER 2 PM will deliver on the next following days.