*CHARITY SPECIAL* Colombia - Sebastian Gomez - Carbonic Gesha

Ok, full disclosure I dropped the ball. I over ordered this coffee. I think it’s incredible, intense, but incredible. It’s also pricey and I need to move it. So I’ve knocked the price way down to a little above cost, with bulk of profit being donated to Save the Children. They’re doing much needed work all around the globe, and that’s more important than ever at the minute. For a 225G bag, we will donate £3, 500g £4, and 1KG, we will donate £5. Help me shift this and do some good at the same time. I’ll post totals on social media once sold through.

STRAWBERRY, LIME, CARAMEL, BLUEBERRY, DARK CHOC

Anyone remember that ice process from Jairo Arcila a few years ago? The insane strawberry lot? This reminds me of a toned down version. When I cupped this I LOVED it, I quite literally drank the cupping bowl. It is an ‘intense’ profile, I get hit with a load of strawberry and chocolate (think roses strawberry), then lime, blueberry and caramel. Oh my word I am enjoying it.

What else? Well it’s a gesha that is quite exciting anyway, with an experimental process chucked on top. It’s also roasted by coffee heavyweight Sebastian Gomez, we’ve had a bunch of his stuff now, it’s not his first rodeo.

Roast wise it’s light/medium, with a process such as this the beans may appear a shade darker than you’d expect, but that’s a by product of the processing of the bean. I’d recommend these on filter, but with milk as a flat white, strawberry milkshake.

THE COFFEE ITSELF

This coffee was grown by Sebastian Gomez at the farm La Divisa . This lot was first aerobically fermented for 24 hours. Then the whole cherries were placed inside Grainpro bags for 50 hours maintaining a temperature below 22ºC and adding CO2. Finally, the whole cherries were placed on raised beds at a temperature below 35ºC until ideal moisture content was achieved.

This microlot is 100% Gesha. This varietal was first discovered in Abyssinia, Ethiopia in 1931. Gesha was planted in Panama for the first time in 1963 and in Colombia in 2005.