Hatch - El Placer "Red Fruit" - DECAF - (Colombia, Strawberry Co-fermentation, Caturra)

Tasting Notes: Strawberry Cream, Cherry, Winey, Toffee, Milk Tea

Origin: Quindio, Colombia
Producer: Sebastian Ramirez
Varieties: Caturra
Process: Yeast Inoculated CM Red Honey Fruit Co-fermentation
Elevation: 1750 masl
Harvest: 2024

“Sebastian utilizes his deep knowledge of coffee processing and access to a well-equipped microbiological laboratory to gather a deeper knowledge of what is scientifically occurring during processing and fermentation on a molecular level with his coffees. This is a critical step for Sebastian and the El Placer team to develop innovative coffees and exotic profiles that are some of the most revered and methodically executed experimentally processed coffees in the entire industry.”

This particular coffee has undergone a full gamut of processing culminating into an incredible coffee to showcase the possibilities of careful and thoughtfully executed processing. The coffee is first fermented in whole cherry with a wine yeast inoculation. It is then pulped for a CO2 injected red honey co-fermentation with dried fruits, strawberries and glucose. The coffee is then carefully dried under canopy before stabilising in grainpro bags. Finally it undergoes decaffination via the EA or ‘sugarcane’ method by Descafecol.