Single origin

Arabica

1550–1700 masl

Finca El Mirador

Elkin Guzman

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Mad Heads for DIU collaboration. Buying this coffee makes a direct contribution to the "Timur Special Unit" of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. About the farmer and farm Elkin Guzman grows coffee on his 31-hectare farm, Finca El Mirador. Thanks to sufficient altitude and fertile soils, the Huila region is exceptionally well suited to growing high-quality coffee. This lot uses the Catiope variety, an arabica cultivar resulting from a cross between Caturra and a local Ethiopian variety. Catiope trees are fairly low-growing, allowing dense planting, and the cherries ripen evenly with a sugar level of 20–22° Brix. Processing: anaerobic natural, 140 hours with added yeast Ahead of harvest, Elkin prepares a special "mother culture" starter of bacteria and yeast, fermented anaerobically. Strawberry and blueberry are added to it later. The ripe cherries are hand-picked and sorted. They're washed and placed in 200-liter tanks pre-loaded with 80 liters of the starter culture, and fermented for 140 hours. The coffee is sun-dried afterward, turned 4–6 times a day for even drying. The whole process takes 12–18 days.