Colombia Narino Forest

Almond, Green Tea, Citric Acid, Caramel The washed Colombian is the bread and butter of the specialty world. It's neither snazzy nor available to snobbish characterizations. You won't find a roaster—not one worth his salt, anyway—affixing notes of ponzu or lemongrass curd to a washed Colombian; to do would dash credibility. A washed Colombian coffee tastes like, well, coffee, but there's a gradient within the category. A good washed Colombian tastes like delicious coffee, a great washed Colombian tastes like sublime coffee, and a perfect washed Colombian tastes like the reason you fell in love with the drink to begin with.  This coffee comes from Forest Importers, a branch of El Vergel, one of Colombia's finest coffee farms. El Vergel's operators, Shady and Elias Bayter, use Forest to scour the country for exceptional, unrecognized coffees. For this brew, they pulled from Narino, one of the higher growing areas in the origin. It's a community lot, meaning it's the product of several sm