Pre-order available now! First roast is Tuesday, April 20th

 

**This coffee roasts to order on Tuesday of each week**

 

Who doesn’t want to drink high quality coffee all day long? We’ve got you covered with this special release Single Origin Decaf from Ethiopia. It checks all the boxes of a high scoring, specialty grade coffee full of so much fruity goodness in the cup.

 

Sourced from our friends at Royal Coffee, they select this lot based on cupping evaluations. After selection, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. The beans are then introduced to a solution concentrated with coffee solubles that extract the caffeine without extracting the coffees particular flavor. The Royal Select Water decaffeination process leads to a sweet and fruity cup that fits great in our line up of single origin coffees.

 

Origin: Ethiopia

Producer: Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative

Altitude: 1550 – 2200 masl

Varietal: Heirloom Ethiopia

Process: Natural and dried on raised beds

Tasting Notes: Citrus, Berries, Tropical

 

 

 

**This coffee roasts to order on Tuesday of each week**

 

Finca El Paraiso is located in Gigante, Huila, Colombia and run by Ernedis Rodriguez. The farm consists of 14 hectares in total, half in coffee and half in reserve. While continually experimenting with each harvest, the main fermentation recipe used in his wet-mill is 72/48/24-hour mixed fermentation. After washing, the coffee is then laid to dry in parabolic dryers for anywhere from 18-25 days, depending on the weather. Ernedis is one of the hardest working producers in the industry: after being able to sell his coffee at elevated prices consistently for so many years, he has really become more like a CEO. He doesn’t work the coffee fields anymore but oversees the workers he hires to clean, fertilize and pick cherries and focuses his efforts on the wet-mil and drying. Last year he was able to upgrade his infrastructure and now has a wet mill that auto sorts and floats the cherries prior to de-pulping. This is a huge step and saves Ernedis an enormous amount of time and work, as well as using literally a fraction of the water to wash the coffees compared to traditional washing. Coffees from Finca El Paraiso are always a stunner, and we look forward to them year after year!

 

Farmer: Ernedis Rodriguez

Origin: Gigante, Huila, Colombia

Variety: Caturra

Process: Washed

Altitude: 1840 masl

Tasting Notes: Tangerine – Brown Sugar – Nectarine

 

 

**This coffee roasts to order on Tuesday of each week**

 

Driving the narrow mountain road up the impossibly steep switchbacks to Finca La Colmenita, or “The Beehive”, the views are striking. There’s a reason this area is called Buena Vista. Far below, the deep valleys of San Pedro Necta stretch out and verdant ridges cast shadows from above. La Colmenita is nearly at the top, a high 1850 to 2000 MASL farm. It’s in the clouds a lot of the time. 

 

When Francisco Cardona Martin bought La Colmenita in 2002, he had a vision: To produce the best quality coffees possible, by planting varieties known for excellence in separation, and investing heavily in innovative farming techniques. Primarily, Francisco cultivates Caturra and Bourbon plants beneath chalum, gravilea, and mature pine trees. Francisco is incredibly resourceful, investing nearly all profits from coffee sold back into the farm. He’s beloved in the local community, a kind and cheerful presence. Those who know him well call him “Chico Cardona”. When in Huehue City, he often attends cuppings with the QC team to develop his skills and to learn how he can improve.

 

Francisco called his farm “The Beehive” because he loves his bees. Happily buzzing about the farm pollinating his coffees plants, bees make the honey which provides a secondary income for the farm.

 

Farmer: Francisco Cardona Martin

Region: Huehuetenango

Process: Washed

Importer: Onyx Coffee

Tasting Notes: Intensely sweet aromatics give way to flavors of pineapple, caramel, pecan, and snickerdoodle. Bright and juicy acidity with a round body. A very dessert-like coffee.

 

 

Ethiopia is universally recognized as the birthplace of arabica coffee and produces some of the most complex and exciting coffees in the world. Ethiopia Guji is one of our flagship coffees and our longest-standing relationship coffee at SteamDot, and we are proud to source this elegant coffee year after year. Its complex flavor makes it an exciting single-origin offering, a stellar house cold brew and adds some flair to our Caldera espresso blend.

 

The Guracho washing station is owned and operated by Sibu Coffee Exporters. Sibu Coffee began operations in 2014 and includes staff who has been working with farmers in Guji for over 20 years. In addition to their commercial activities in and around Guracho village, Sibu Coffee is actively invested in community development projects.  The Guracho Primary School is located just a kilometer from Sibu’s washing station and many of Sibu’s farmers have children in attendance.

 

Farmer: 2300 members of the Guracho Washing Station, Kedir Hassen Aredo
Region: Guji Zone, Kercha District
Variety: Typica
Altitude: 1900 – 2100 masl
Process: Washed
Harvest: Oct – Jan
Tasting Notes: Tropical fruit and green-tea like aromatics give way to flavors of tangerine, cranberry, and lime in the cup with a lasting herbal finish.