El Nevado del Huila - Washed Community Lot - Huila, Colombia

Producer: Producers from Santa Maria and Pitalito
Location: Huila
Variety: Field blend of Caturra, Castillo, Colombia
Process: Washed
Harvest: 2025
Importer: The Coffee Quest

Contract Price: $4.98 + $0.49 import tariff per pound

About Colombia: Colombian coffee producers are incredibly innovative. In response to decades devastating coffee rust disease, they developed high quality disease resistant varietals like Colombia and Castillo. As the specialty coffee industry has evolved, they've been at the forefront inventing delicious new techniques for fermenting coffee, vastly expanding the range of flavors possible in the cup. Coffee from Colombia can't be easily generalized, but it's particularly famous for malic acidity (think apple & pear), big sweetness, and delicate florals on the aroma. 

About Washed Coffee: The washed process is the standard method of preparing coffee before roasting. It results in high-clarity, delicate flavors. The process begins with mechanically de-pulping the coffee cherry, followed by repeated washing with clean water to ensure the complete removal of the fruit mucilage. The coffee is then fermented for a short period of time to remove the parchment layer, and then dried in the a single layer either in the sun or in shade for several days.