Catuai / Natural Extended Fermentation
We are so thrilled to have some tropical coffees back. This year’s unique El Puente’s catuai extended fermentation process is definitely for the ones that like exploring coffee.
€18.60 /kg
We are so thrilled to have some tropical coffees back. This year’s unique El Puente’s catuai extended fermentation process is definitely for the ones that like exploring coffee.
€18.60 /kg
So, this coffee will definitely bring an extra layer of sweetness to the final cup. The cherries were picked and fermented as whole cherries for 72 hours, then dried slowly on raised beds for another 20-25 days.
This year, experimenting with processing was particularly risky, as the weather conditions were not exactly on the producer’s side. Luckily, our friends at El Puente got a few precious days of sunshine, allowing them to produce a small quantity of this extended-fermentation natural.
Location: Marcala, La Paz
Altitude (MASL): 1,500-1,680 m.a.s.l.
Varieties: Catuai 80%, 20% Geisha, Java, Pacamara, Red and Yellow Bourbon, Pacas, SL-28, Batรญan
Processing method: Washed, Natural, Honey, anaerobic, semi-anaerobic
Marysabel and her husband Moises initiated their cultivating coffee affair in the year 1996 (bought land in 1992).
Marysabel comes from the coffee growing family that dates back all the way to the year 1907. It wasnโt until 1996 after she married Moises when they have decided to focus and work hard to develop quality in coffee and eventually become coffee growing leaders in their country.
As COE winners Marysabel and Moises humbly and consistently work hard to maintain the highest coffee potential with respect for their community and the surrounding environment. Although their focus of attention is to achieve the highest quality they believe that social and environmental sustainability is an inseparable part of producing coffee and it reflects on all the coffee producing levels.
Jakub Parcheta (verified owner) –
Actually very surprising beans, personally on par with some of the best ones from Honduras I have ever tasted- quite funky, almost Nestor Lasso fermentation style, very complex and sweet. Buy if still available ๐ The beans like a lot of energy so total time from start to the end of the roast on KL was 4:32 with 20s of dev. Strongly reccomend