Sideyard Coffee: December 10 - Colombia 🇨🇴 Huila El Tiple Supremo 🌰🍫🍒
Hello Sideyard Friends,
This week we're drinking a coffee from the Huila Department in southwest Colombia. Coffee has been cultivated in Colombia since the early 1700s and they're the third largest producer in the world! I've shared this list of biggest coffee producing countries previously, but missed the fact that Vietnam is the second largest producer. That made me curious why we rarely see Vietnamese single origin coffees. The explanation is pretty straightforward... Over 95% of the coffee grown in Vietnam is robusta, and robusta rarely produces the kind of quality that breaks into the speciality market. This is slowly changing however, as more Vietnamese farmers pivot toward growing arabica in an effort to command a higher premium for their harvests.
Back to this week's coffee... I'm tasting a lot of nuttiness (hazelnut/almond) followed by chocolate and cherry in my pour overs. While it is a "bolder" cup, it still has some nice acidity to it. It's quite different from the Colombia we had a few weeks back! That one was an anaerobic natural that we roasted toward the lighter end of the spectrum, while this one is a washed process coffee roasted toward the darker end of medium/Full City. My personal preference is for the former, but I'm guessing this one might win more hearts.
This week's origin track is El Enamorao, from the Colombian Bullerengue group La Perla–a trio of vocal harmonies, percussion, and flute.
It's not too late to order extra coffee for gifting. We have two coffees coming up that I'm excited about. A Kenya and a honey-processed Nicaragua. We're planning to roast both next week for delivery on Friday the 17th so as not to bump into travel and holiday plans. Let us know in the next few days if you want extras. Because December has five weeks, that double delivery/pickup on the 17th will be the last of 2021!
Cheers,
Ryan
This week we're drinking a coffee from the Huila Department in southwest Colombia. Coffee has been cultivated in Colombia since the early 1700s and they're the third largest producer in the world! I've shared this list of biggest coffee producing countries previously, but missed the fact that Vietnam is the second largest producer. That made me curious why we rarely see Vietnamese single origin coffees. The explanation is pretty straightforward... Over 95% of the coffee grown in Vietnam is robusta, and robusta rarely produces the kind of quality that breaks into the speciality market. This is slowly changing however, as more Vietnamese farmers pivot toward growing arabica in an effort to command a higher premium for their harvests.
Back to this week's coffee... I'm tasting a lot of nuttiness (hazelnut/almond) followed by chocolate and cherry in my pour overs. While it is a "bolder" cup, it still has some nice acidity to it. It's quite different from the Colombia we had a few weeks back! That one was an anaerobic natural that we roasted toward the lighter end of the spectrum, while this one is a washed process coffee roasted toward the darker end of medium/Full City. My personal preference is for the former, but I'm guessing this one might win more hearts.
This week's origin track is El Enamorao, from the Colombian Bullerengue group La Perla–a trio of vocal harmonies, percussion, and flute.
It's not too late to order extra coffee for gifting. We have two coffees coming up that I'm excited about. A Kenya and a honey-processed Nicaragua. We're planning to roast both next week for delivery on Friday the 17th so as not to bump into travel and holiday plans. Let us know in the next few days if you want extras. Because December has five weeks, that double delivery/pickup on the 17th will be the last of 2021!
Cheers,
Ryan
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