Colombia San Agustin

Roast Level: Medium Roasting Process: Fully Washed and Sun Dried Description: Single Origin Orange, Caramel, Milk Chocolate. Coffee farming in this remote region South of Huila is different from other regions. Here, coffee farming is an art which has been passed down through generations. The family does their own harvesting, usually with the help of neighbors. After the red and ripe cherries are picked, they are de-pulped by passing them through a manual de-pulper at the farm. The pulp itself will be used later as a natural fertilizer. The mucilage is immediately removed through the wet process which dissolves its sucrose ingredients by leaving the beans in a processing tank anywhere from 12 to 18 hours. Once this process is complete, farmers sun dry the parchment on patios or the roofs of their houses (Elbas). They have designed a mechanism by which they can slide the roof with pulleys to cover the coffee in case of rain. The other sun drying method which is now commonly used i