Finca La Pia Washed Guatemala
250 grams
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Origin: Guatemala
Region: La Joya Larga, Palencia, Fraijanes Plateau Region, Guatemala
Varietal: Bourbon & Caturra
Processing: Washed
Tasting notes: Arnold Palmer, caramel, rosemary, milk chocolate
The Process:
Washed processing involves de-pulping the coffee cherry. A bladed tool is used to cut open the cherries, extract the seeds and discard the empty fruit. The coffee is then soaked in water to soften the seed and typically is left to ferment for 12 to 72 hours. Afterwards the coffee is washed clean of any remaining fruit, mucilage and silverskin before it’s finally dried. Washed coffees are the most common processed coffees you’ll see!
Behind the Producer:
Altitude: 1600-1700 masl
Farm: Finca La Pia
Producer: Victor Calderon
About the producer:
The Calderon family has been involved in coffee for nearly 140 years! Victor’s great-great-grandfather Don Florencio Calderon acquired a farm by the Guatemalan coast in 1885. This coastal farm focused on volume production, and Don Florencio’s descendants kept this business model for many generations. The Calderon family in descending order from Don Florencio, Don Marcos his son, Victor his grandson, Marcos, his great-grandson (and father of the current Victor Calderon) have been in coffee for almost all of Guatemala’s coffee history. Along the way, there have been different professions, but the family has always returned to coffee. For example, Victor’s grandfather, Don Victor senior, collaborated with Dr. Rodolfo Robles in discovering the microfilaria parasite that is transmitted by mosquito bites in some regions of Africa and Central America, and that causes a disease that renders the patient blind. Field work took place in their coffee plantations in Guatemala.
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