OCTOBER SUBSCRIPTIONAlbeiro Calambas, ColombiaThis month's coffee, from Albeiro's farm, was an easy choice. It has been a crowd favourite and is a coffee that makes me feel that there is no need to buy unique, limited-release, rare variety coffees. This coffee has everything you would want in a coffee — big sweetness, clear distinct flavours, present and pleasant acidity, and great mouthfeel. The best thing, however, is the farmer, Albeiro, is truly passionate.Albeiro has chosen to keep his farm smaller so that he can continue to have control of his production. He has worked out the sweet spot between producing enough coffee and growing coffee that can be processed with enough attention to the details that the quality is never...
JULY SUBSCRIPTIONHey!Hope you are doing really well.Faber Mulcue, ColombiaThis coffee brings us full circle. We offered Faber Mulcue early in our subscription last year. It is a wonderful feeling to return to buy from the same coffee producers each year. I think of it somewhat like wine through its vintages. I get to feel the sense of a coffee more fully, as well as gain a greater understanding of the producer's processing style.We purchase most of our small lot Colombian coffees from Caravela — an importer in Australia, as well as an exporter in Colombia. They are a vertically integrated company with one of the most comprehensive understandings of the Colombian coffee market. So, as an exporter, they have been...
MAY SUBSCRIPTIONJaime Alvarez — ColombiaWe have a pretty different coffee for you this month. It is a fresh release and won't be around long. Each year we decide to buy a coffee that is more experimental in its processing. The main reason for this is to plunge into a different spectrum of flavour, but also to see a wildly differing coffee in our roaster and how it reacts to heat inputs.We find that processing can take over the inherent varietal/terroir flavour profile and steer the coffee toward a different category of flavours. This leads the coffee away from classically standard quality attributes. Whether this is good or bad, it is for you as the drinker to decide. It is a...
