Colombia Finca Las Brisas Pink Bourbon Natural

Cup Characteristics: Extremely sweet with melon, cherry, grapefruit and persimmon flavors. There are additional tropical fruit flavors showing up like pineapple and starfruit. Shows high grown pedigree and transparency. This is bold, flavorful and particularly sweet coffee.

$28.00

Select Size: 12 ounces $28.00 1 pound $35.00 5 pound bag $166.50

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Description

Producer Lisandro Cardenas is the son of a coffee producer and spent his whole life around coffee. He said that he "inherited" being a producer from his father. He took courses at the National Learning Service (SENA) in coffee production, and started his own farm almost a decade ago. In additional to Caturra, Don Lisandro grows Gesha varieties and this Pink Bourbon.

The farm Finca Las Brisas is 5-hectares, planted with coffee on 4.5 hectares, in a combination of volcanic/sandy loam soil common to the area.

Producer: Lisandro Cardenas

Country: Colombia

Region: Acevedo, Huila

Elevation: 1400 - 2000 meters

Varietal: Pink Bourbon

Processing: Natural

Ripe, Pink Bourbon coffee cherries

Pink Bourbon is cultivated from hybridization of Red and Yellow Bourbon. It's somewhat rare, but the producers say it is quite resistant to rust, an illness that can destroy coffee trees. Pink Bourbons are difficult to produce with consistency. The recessive genes, leading to the expression of these colors, are easily thwarted by the presence of yellow and red genes in a given pollen grain. A carefully isolated and contained lot can do quite well and preserve the unique color and character of this variety, though this is quite hard to find.

The process here is a full natural, meaning that coffee cherries are dried in the fruit, then milled to release the coffee beans within. This method allows the coffee's natural fruit to penetrate the coffee beans.