Colombia - El Diamante / Natural Kombucha SCOBY Fermentation

Name: Colombia - El Diamante / Natural Kombucha SCOBY Fermentation
Brand: La Tostadora

£18.00

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Blueberry, Malbec, Umami

Edilberto grows his beautiful Pink Bourbon in El Diamante estate at 1.650 masl, he cares a lot for the quality of the plantation itself, doing it with passion day to day. He switched his caturra lot for pink bourbon 4 years ago as he preferred the taste of pink bourbon variety and found it to be more productive. Jose, from Cafe 1959 met Edilberto in a coffee event in the SENA of Pitalito, and as cafe 1959 is focused on high standard processing, them partner in up in order to send the coffee cherries to be process at 1959 facilities in Quindio and to get a premium price for the high end cherries coffees he is producing in his farm.
Country: Colombia

Region: Acevedo, Huila

Farmer: Edilberto & Jose Giraldo

Farm: El Diamante

Variety: Pink Bourbon

Process: Kombucha SCOBY Fermentation

First 12 Hours of the fermentation take place in the truck travelling during the night from Acevedo to Armenia, Quindio (Cafe 1959 Facilities). Once the cherries arrive they are placed in open tanks. The total time of the fermentation is 348 hrs. After the first 8 hrs of fermentation the coffee mass (volume and temperature) creates a layer on top that comes from the pectin of the cherries, and it looks very similar to the scoby shield form during the Kombucha process (that is why we gave this name to the coffee). This “shield” created on the top helps the rest of the microorganisms to reproduce and break the sugars.

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