Prodigal - Mornington Peninsula

"Our house blend. Blend components rotate seasonally to ensure the freshest and tastiest coffees make up our blends."

Components:

50% - Colombia AMACA La Independencia &

50% - Guatemala Finca Rio Ocho

Roast date - 5/4/2024

Process - Washed

Flavour notes - Butterscotch, Chocolate brownie, Plum

"Jorge Enrique Solarte owns this beautiful two hectare farm in Pitalito Huila. He began coffee production in 2010 and began with mostly Tabi variety but did not have success with this variety and has since transitioned to Caturra, Pink Bourbon, and Colombia with much better results. 

Jorge fertilizes his land every four months and clears the land around the trees of debris monthly. He takes a very meticulous approach to land maintenance. 

Main harvest here usually runs from September through November with a fly crop “mitaca” from March-April. They pick every 15 days during these timeframes for optimal cherry maturation. 

After coffee is picked, it is pulped with a traditional pulper and fermented for 72-80 hours in water tanks followed by two washes with clean water. Jorge dries on raised beds under parabolic dryers."

Farm - La Buena Vista

Origin - Pitalito, Huila, Colombia

Roast date - 5/4/2024

Variety - Caturra

Process - Washed

Flavour notes - Sugar cookie, Dried apple, White tea 

"Aricha is the name of the washing station where this coffee is processed. Edido is the village, or kebele, where this coffee is grown and processed, in a microregion of Yirgacheffe. Aricha is about 8 kilometers from the center of Yirgacheffe Town. The soils in this region are red-brown clay soil, about 1.5 meters deep. We like the complex, almost tropical quality of coffees from Aricha, along with their juicy fruitiness and sugary, floral sweetness.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds."

Farm - Various smallholder farmers delivering to the Aricha Washing Station

Origin - Edido, Aricha, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia 

Roast date - 5/4/2024

Variety - Heirloom

Process - Anaerobic Natural

Flavour notes - Strawberry, Raspberry jam, Honey

"Arsosala is a washing station founded in 2015 that currently serves about 1,200 smallholder producers in the Urga woreda of Guji.

Washed lots at this washing station are delivered ripe, depulped the same day, fermented overnight, and washed before being soaked/fermented underwater for 8–16 hours. Then they are washed again. The total fermentation time is between 48–72 hours. The coffee is dried on raised beds for 9–12 days.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically traceable to the washing station level, where smallholder farmers—many of whom own less than 1/2 hectare of land, and as little as 1/8 hectare on average—deliver cherry by weight to receive payment at a market rate. The coffee is sorted and processed into lots without retaining information about whose coffee harvest is in which bag or which lot."

Farm - Various smallholder farmers delivering to the Arsosala Washing Station

Origin - Arsosala village, Uraga, Guji, Ethiopia

Roast date - 5/4/2024

Variety - Heirloom

Process - Washed

Flavour notes - Dark berries, Plum, Brown sugar

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