012 Colombia — Red/Yellow Caturra – DECAF
+€12,10 – €39,80 inc. VAT
Colombia — decaf
El Vergel Estate— Tolima, Colombia — Washed & Decaf
We’ve been looking for a proper decaf that doesn’t underperform as a pour over filter coffee. Our friends Elias \& Shady Bayter at El Vergel Estate brought us exactly what we’ve been looking for!
El Vergel Estate made the decision to produce a high quality decaffeinated coffee, after seeing that most of the coffee used in Colombia to produce “decaf” is a low quality (left over, old crop, old picking) coffee. Starting with a great product, their Yellow and Red Caturra has allowed them to create a decaffeinated product that, despite the process, does not lose its sweetness in the cup.
Sugar cane process E.A.
Ethyl acetate (E.A.) decaffeination is a natural process that maintains the integrity of green-coffee flavour. Ethyl acetate occurs naturally in many fruits, which is why this method is often referred to as natural decaffeination. In this case, local sugarcane is used to create the EA.
When the green coffee is received at the decaffeination plant it is first submitted to water and steam. This elevates the moisture content and swells the bean in order to facilitate the extraction of caffeine. It is at this point, the beans get an E.A. wash, which dissolves the caffeine. The beans are then cleaned with water, followed by steam, to clean the inner most portions of the bean.
Finally, the beans are dried until they’ve reached the desired moisture similar to what they had prior to the process. This method avoids excessive heat or pressure, which can radically disrupt a green bean’s cellular structure.
What we end up with is a beautiful clean and juicy cup. Beautiful fruit tones and a smooth delicate body.
This coffee will brew an amazing pour over or batch brew, but without the caffeine.
ABOUT THE COFFEE
Details |
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Origin |
Fresno, Tolima, Colombia |
Farmer |
El Vergel Estate |
Variety |
Red & Yellow Caturra |
Processing |
Washed & Sugarcane Decaffeinated |
Altitude |
1500 MASL |
Profile |
Apple, fruity, clean |
ABOUT OUR PACKAGING
We love packaging design, but we hate waste and single-use packaging.
Therefore we try to find a well thought-out balance between aesthetics and sustainability. The hardest part here is having a food-grade solution that fits not just local waste processing, but also national and international.
The over-exploited words ‘reuse, reduce, recycle’ are more than a hollow message like having a green leaf on the label, and we try to live by them as much as possible. For this reason you can pick 1 of 3 types of packaging when you order coffee with us:
– AMOC Jar: our AMOC jars are made from fully recyclable PET. They’re light-weight, which means not many resources are necessary for production. And most important: they are reusable for (almost) an eternity.
– Refill: if you agree with us that opening a new bag and throwing it out as soon as you’ve finished the coffee is bullsh*it: it’s very hard to find a solution for this. Due to rules and regulations your standard coffee pouch can’t be used twice, which is why we can’t refill them. Compostable and recyclable certifications are often vague, only apply under certain conditions or nothing more than a sham.
This is why we decided to offer a different kind of bag for our refills, without the valve or zipper, but simply a thin layer of food grade PP material vacuum packed. These weight about 40% less than conventional coffee bags (meaning less resources are needed to make them), are easy to recycle in most recycling plants and take the minimum amount of volume to ship.
– Kilo: after a long journey trying to find the best packaging for our bigger bags we came to the conclusion that it’s very hard to find a decent, sustainable packaging that also protects the contents well. We’d hate to see the quality of the contents go to waste, because so much energy, water and other resources are put into making the coffee taste as good as possible. Therefore we ended up picking our Kilo bags on recyclability and barrier properties. This bag is (under certain circumstances) recyclable and has amazing barrier properties to keep those beans fresh and tasty for as long as possible.
Reuse. Reduce. Recycle.
| Weight | 0,3 kg |
|---|---|
| ROAST | Filter |
| CONTENTS | 300 GR., 1000 GR. |
