About This Coffee
Why are we featuring this coffee? After reading significant negative commentary regarding Castillo, and producers using coferment techniques to "cover up the flavor of low grade beans" (which is absolute nonsense), we wanted to offer you the opportunity to taste the beans which our partners at Cofinet use to produce our Santa Monica coferments. What's in the cup? This is a well structured and clean Colombia cup with flavors of white grape, juicy raisin, and apricot. This is quite enjoyable, and worthy of sitting amongst other specialty beans. Will it Spro? Pretty mellow as a Turbo shot. I got a very traditional South American cup with tamarind, green grape, bakers chocolate, hazelnut, and mild spices. It’s not super sweet, but on the order of something like molasses like sweetness. In general cups were pretty easy to brew using my Big Switch 2 recipe. I tried out the ZP6 and the DF64. Both yielded good and pretty similar cups when pushed, with the ZP6 being the slight preference as that tamarind came out a little more on the juicy side. ZP6 was also good when backed off a bit which pulled that green grape note out front. Honestly, I like this kind of coffee purely because it is the washed version of a coffee that’s been made available as so many different iterations of coferment. I like these kinds of apples-apples comparisons as it gives you a better understanding of the impact of the processing vs the inherent aspects of the bean. Also, this was actually a nice break from some of the more fruit/floral-forward cups I’ve had lately. In some ways, it actually reminded me of a South American Tim Wendleboe coffee.
Flavor Profile
Coffee Details
- Type
- Single Origin
- Process
- Washed
- Roast Level
- Light
- Origin
- 🇨🇴 Quindio, Colombia
- Varieties
- Castillo
- Altitude
- 1,300-1,450m