Rootbeer Float, Grevil Sabillon

Parainema from Grevil Sabillon’s farm in Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Classic washed process. His partner, Hildaly, depulped & dry-fermented this lot in a concrete tank behind their home for 24hrs. before being washed & dried on raised beds. Resulting in a clear expression of Parainema, which has inherently zippy acidity & cola-like flavour. Cools sweet & grounding. Grevil farms alongside his wife Hildaly Leiva, where they both produce excellent examples of Parainema (and we buy from both each year). Parainema coffee fruit is best harvested beyond the normal red-ripe colour to where it has turned a deeper purple colour. Much is the case with other similar hybrid varieties that include some Robusta-Arabica hybrid parentage, such as Castillo in Colombia. Once picked, the coffee fruit is bagged in tulas, nylon bags, and trucked down the road to Grevil and Hildaly’s home, where Hildaly is responsible for processing. The coffee is depulped using a small hand-pulper with a