• • • • Producer Jhoan Vergara
      • Attributes pink bourbon
      • Origin San Isidro, Acevedo, Huila, Colombia
      • Profile shades of coconut jelly with lychee & mango, delivered with a lasting jammy residual. Kapow-wow!
      • Limited quantities! 

We first encountered Jhoan close to a decade ago cupping in a SENA lab. This amazing institution (the Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje, or National Training Service) is where many keen Colombian coffee producers learn agronomy, cupping, roasting, and basic brewing skills. Rolling on to September 2022, we were excited to be reintroduced to Jhoan through our long-term friends and partners the Lassos of the now famous El Diviso farm (from whom we have been buying for 5+ years), and we’re stoked to now be able to be counted among his buyers.It turns out that Jhoan has been experimenting for many years now, specifically seeking consistency and the ability to replicate cup profiles that he likes. These days, he works with a microbiology lab in Pitalito, separating microorganisms from each variety of coffee cherry to reproduce them, and then reapplying those microorganisms to the coffee mass. When the microorganisms are applied to the mass (either as cherry or de-pulped coffee), they will be able to work efficiently, without as much competition from other microorganisms.For this lot, first cherries are picked and left in open weave bags (tulas) for an initial cherry ferment or oxidation process- the mass gets hotter during this process, and cherries are left for 24-48 hours depending on the weather and the brix. Then he floats cherries to homogenize the temperature again, and de-pulps the coffee, fermenting it in sealed plastic bags (with the added micro-organisms). Finally, he washes the coffee with hot water- the thermal shock- which Jhoan says can lend more intensity to the cup.

• Roasted for filter brewing. We ship coffee as whole beans by default, if you need your coffee ground, please let us know at the checkout.
• If requested as part of a sample pack, we will send a subsequent Paypal payment request for $5 to cover the additional cost of this beauty.