Colombia – Decaf Origin Select – EA – Cauca B12659
Specs:
Source:
Colombia
Region:
Cauca
Farm:
Various smallholder farmers
Variety:
Castillo, Caturra, Colombia
Altitude:
1100–2100 masl
Processing:
Decaf
Notes:
"Sweet with big tart fruit acidity and a smooth mouthfeel; ripe banana, lemon and graham flavors."
Score:
Price/Bag:
$4.24 per lb
$212.00 per bagOut of stock
Background:
Take advantage of a great program dedicated to bringing the highest-quality, non-chemical-processed decaf coffees to market. Our Origin Select Decaf offerings are single-origin blends of coffees selected by cup quality grown by multiple smallholder producers. Our Colombian E.A. (ethyl acetate) decafs are cupped as regular green samples and specifically identified for decaffeination, which happens in-country in Colombia before the coffee goes to export. This allows us to maintain both the integrity of the quality of the coffees we choose to decaf, but also to extend our intentional and responsible sourcing to our decaf offerings as well as our “regular.”
This process works by soaking green coffee in a bath of water and a solvent called ethyl acetate, which is naturally derived from fermented sugar, among other natural sources. The solvent bonds to the salts of chlorogenic acid within the coffee, which allows for the extraction of caffeine. The coffee is removed from its bath and steamed at low pressure to ensure no traces of E.A. are left, and the finished product is almost entirely free of any but the most trivial (0.1–0.3%) caffeine content.
For more information about coffee production in Colombia, visit our Colombia Origin Page.
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