Flavors - Notes of passionfruit and Pineapple.
Process - Passionfruit Co Fermented
Roast Level - Medium
Varietal - Castillo
SCA - 88.25
Altitude - 1450-1500m
Notes - This coffee is suitable for all brew methods. Roasted to the lighter side of medium.
About
This coffee was grown by Jairo Arcila at the farm Santa Mónica. This coffee was exposed to a dry anaerobic fermentation period of 72 hours with the pulp on. During this fermentation stage passion fruit pulp and wine yeast were added. The cherries were then pulped and placed to
dry on raised beds with passion fruit pulp placed amongst the coffee until the ideal moisture content was achieved.
Fermenting Coffee with Fruit
One of the most recent processing innovations in the specialty coffee industry is fermenting coffee with fruit, literally introducing fruit and/or fruit juices into green coffee processing.
Coffee producers have moved from experimentation to solid success with a variety of methods of coffee fruit fermentation, including carbonic maceration, where coffee cherries are sealed in containers and the oxygen removed using C02. This method of fermenting coffee with fruit opens up a whole world of possibilities with specialty coffee – adding fruit flavors and notes to premium green coffee.
Fruit Fermentation can also include adding sliced or smashed fruit to honey processed coffee as it is turned during drying. A wide variety of fruit or friends of fruit, like wine yeast, have been used. We've been able to cup coffees from our producer partners in Colombia that have been fermented with grapes, oranges, wine yeast, passionfruit and more.
Some of the fruit “partnerships” result in such pronounced flavors they are easily identifiable even by those without professional coffee tasting credentials, sometimes even before they taste the coffee. The unmistakable aroma of grape fills the air as coffee fermented with grapes spills from the grinder.
When it comes to understanding the science of fermentation in coffee processing, with fruit or without, much remains to be explored as producers continue to push processing boundaries. Fruit fermentation might not be everyone’s cup of coffee, but for those of us who enjoy exploring different and new, innovations in processing will continue to deliver.
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