September Coffee - Golden Hour - Castillo - Advanced Anaerobic Washed with Thermal Shock - Colombia 200g

Intensely sweet and creamy castillo with tropical, bright, and candy-like peach notes

• Variety: Castillo
• Process: Advanced Anaerobic Washed with Thermal Shock
• Country: Colombia
• Region: Cauca, Colombia
• Altitude: 1930 MASL
• Producer: Alex Bermudez
• Tasting Notes: Peach, pineapple, lychee, fruit smoothie, creamy sweetness

About the Variety
Castillo is a hybrid variety created as a cross between Caturra and a Timor Robusta. Carefully developed for its resistance to leaf rust, Castillo is a hybrid variety that now makes up 40% of Colombia's coffee crops. It is a "dwarfed" tree that can be planted in high density, resulting in generous crop yields.

Production
El Paraiso and the Bermudez family are absolute geniuses when it comes to methodology in coffee processing. Rather than using standard anaerobic fermentation tanks, they use precise bio reactors to ferment the product, measuring everything from time, temperature, pH, sugar content and microbial load. The process begins with proper harvesting of coffee cherries at optimal ripeness, followed by disinfection with ozone. Cherries are then transferred to fermentation tanks for 72 hours of anaerobic fermentation submerged in water. After pulping and demucilaging, the mucilage and pulp are used to produce specific microorganisms and culture medium containing flavor precursors, which is added back to fermentation tanks for 36 hours under pressure. A thermal shock process follows to fix additional precursors and seal the beans. Finally, the coffee is dried in a dehumidifier to remove humidity while preserving soft notes and avoiding over-oxidation.

Roaster Notes
This is the fourth year of working with Finca El Paraiso. Golden Hour is an intensely sweet and creamy castillo that is tropical, bright, and sweet like peach candy. This coffee has been a staple to the menu and one that has transformed our opinion on the complexities and beauty of experimental coffee processing. In the cup we taste sweet tropicals that remind us of peaches and pineapple with a creamy sweetness reminiscent of lychee and a fruit smoothie. This coffee has a creamy body and a long sweet finish. El Paraiso and the Bermudez family have come to be known as the world leaders in coffee processing.