Components: Colombia Quindio
Roaster's Tasting Notes: Cinnamon / Gingerbread / Anise / Clove
Process: Carbonic Maceration Cinnamon Co-Fermentation
Varieties: Caturra / Pink Bourbon
Roast Date: November 26
200g / 7oz
DAK is located in Amsterdam
From DAK
The perfect festive coffee for this cozy season! Another co-fermented coffee from Edwin Noreña tasting like cinnamon, gingerbread, anis & clove.
Edwin meticulously selects cherries with a minimum Brix level of 23, placing them in 30kg plastic bags for 24 hours. The initial fermentation, already underway, is followed by a 72-hour carbonic maceration with mosto (the juice obtained from compressing coffee cherries) in a large tank. The resulting liquid, collected through a valve, becomes the foundation of his co-fermentation process. After de-pulping, the cherries are transferred to smaller tanks along with the liquid and organic cinnamon powder and sits for 72h. The coffee is then sun dried on African beds for 25 days until reaching a humidity level of 10.5%. Following humidity stabilization for eight days in a warehouse, it is stored in grain-pro bags.
Gatta Farm was a natural forest before being discovered by the cofounder Mulugeta Dukamo while managing the construction of Gafisse Station. They planted the first coffee in 2013, and established the drying station in 2017. The vegetation and forest surrounding the farm is useful as natural shade for the farm and the drying station. Plantation, harvesting and processing works are mainly done by the local residents. Also women are involved and are mainly assigned to quality control and processing, except for labor intensive tasks. By offering working opportunities and proper wage this is a real benefit for the local residents. Daye Bensa’s Gatta Farm isn’t only a farm, it consists of a drying station, a lodge and a training facility. During harvesting season, the drying station becomes active and also offers accommodations for employees or trainees until the training has ended. The training facility offers training in coffee processing for interested individuals.
