Third time's a charm! 🎉
We're back with our third coffee from Colombian producer Huver Castillo, and we reckon this is his finest work yet!
You might remember Huver from two of our previous releases, Rocket Flower and Black Honey Berries, his delicious blackberry co-ferment. Both were packed with flavour, but this time Huver has taken things to another level with an exceptional Gesha.
A third-generation coffee grower and former maths teacher, Huver returned to his family's coffee-growing roots less than 15 years ago. Today, he works alongside his father at El Paseo, a beautiful family farm perched on the mountainsides overlooking Buesaco in Colombia's Nariño region. Sitting between 1,750 and 1,950 metres above sea level, the farm is blessed with rich volcanic soils, cool mountain temperatures and native shade trees. A pretty special home for a pretty special coffee!
Now, here's where the flavour magic happens!
Huver starts by handpicking perfectly ripe Gesha cherries, which undergo 20 hours of controlled pre-fermentation. The cherries are then depulped and transferred into sealed steel tanks for a whopping 210 hours of anaerobic fermentation!
During this stage, Huver introduces a carefully measured mixture of beer hops and sugarcane juice, helping amplify the Gesha's beautiful floral aromatics, vibrant citrus character and layered fruit sweetness.
After fermentation, the coffee is sun-dried on patios for 10 to 20 days, before resting in GrainPro bags for another 30 days to allow all those wonderful flavours to settle and harmonise.
The result? An incredibly elegant, expressive Gesha bursting with coffee blossom, Turkish delight, red grape and cherry.
Three coffees into our journey with Huver, and we're more excited than ever about what he's producing. This one is something special. Enjoy!
