Colombia
Huila

Description

This light-medium roasted Colombian coffee is an excellent way to start your day. Notes of clementine bring a subtle brightness to this coffee, with honey and chocolate to create a deliciously balanced coffee. While ideal for pour overs, this coffee proves to be a standout roast, even in cold brew or espresso applications. The Colombia Huila single-origin is a washed-process coffee.  This delightfully nuanced coffee has a clean and balanced flavor profile. Fans of the Colombia Huila will also like our Starlight Blend, which features these coffee beans alongside our Ethiopia Guji Shakiso.

Process Description

This coffee undergoes a process that starts with manual selection of ripe red cherries, followed by the traditional washed method with variable fermentation times, ranging from 24 to 36 hours. Afterwards, the beans dry with sun exposure for 15 – 20 days.

History

Pitalito, Bruselas and Timana, Huila, are home to the 96 independent women who are part of Forest Academy and the Huila Condor Project. These group of farmer women deliver their coffee to a facility in Huila, where the quality team receives and reviews it. This region aspires to create change and become a benchmark in the world of specialty coffee.
Driven by quality, they consistently host workshops with their producers.  They cover different processes, fermentation, drying, and cup their own coffees. This ensures direct and fair payment – offering between 18-20% above market rate, which equates to $350,000 COP per carga, with 50% paid directly to the women’s account. They also host an internal competition among producers to promote and give visibility to their coffees and improvements.

This initiative focuses on coffee production in specific regions of Colombia, collaborating closely with farming communities. The objective is to assist them in enhancing their processes, improving quality, ensuring fair payment and establishing traceability. Furthermore, this project aims to directly connect these farmers with roasters worldwide.  Importantly, this initiative impacts the lives of these women, especially by providing visibility and support in a male-driven industry such as specialty coffee.

Producer: Huila Condor Project

Varietal: Caturra & Castillo

Processing: Washed Process

Altitude: 1500 – 1900 m