What Are the Brands of Colombian Coffee Beans? Flavor Profile and Taste Description of Pour-Over Colombian Coffee

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As the world's third-largest coffee-producing country, Colombia has a very well-developed coffee industry. It features the FNC (Federación Nacional de Cafeteros), which coordinates coffee farmers' cultivation, and CENICAFE (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café), a dedicated coffee variety research and development institution. Its terrain is divided into three major regions from south to north. The southern and northern regions have distinct harvest seasons, while the central region has primary and secondary harvest seasons, with the main season from October to January and the secondary season from April to July.

This has also given rise to many famous Colombian coffee brands. FrontStreet Coffee will introduce several renowned Colombian coffee brands.

JUAN-VALDEZ

As Colombia's number one coffee brand and also the best coffee brand in South America, it represents the character of Colombian coffee growers and serves as the symbol of Colombian coffee, distinguishing it from coffee of other origins and making it acceptable to different markets.

In the recent 40 years, Colombian coffee growers have made great efforts and created the Juan Valdez brand we see today. In 2005, The New York Times confirmed the importance of the Juan Valdez brand in the United States, as its trademark recognition has already exceeded many world-leading brands, gradually becoming a world-renowned brand. JUAN-VALDEZ's roasted coffee grows in the world's best soils. Colombia's diverse topographical features enable us to cultivate coffees with different flavors to meet the diverse taste needs of consumers worldwide.

Ming Coffee

The "Colombian" flavored coffee under Ming Coffee has a unique taste, with rich and mellow mouthfeel and a slightly acidic aftertaste that fully expresses the coffee's aroma, making it intriguing and highly regarded.

Ge's Coffee

Ge's Coffee is made from traditionally deep-roasted coffee beans, perfectly showcasing the three flavors of Colombian coffee: acidity, bitterness, and sweetness. Rich aroma, bright premium acidity, and high balance are the inherent excellent characteristics of Ge's Coffee.

Kelin

Kelin's select Colombian coffee has rich and thick aroma with bright premium acidity, accompanied by nutty flavors, leaving an endless aftertaste. Whether in appearance or quality, it represents quite excellent varieties.

Flavor Characteristics of Colombian Coffee Beans

In FrontStreet Coffee's view, the reason Colombian coffee is popular is mainly because of its silk-like smooth mouthfeel. People equate Colombian coffee with high quality and good taste, and it has bitterness with sweetness, soft acidity, and unique fruit aroma and body. The acidity, bitterness, and sweetness of Colombian premium coffee are perfectly balanced, making it fascinating.

Colombian Coffee Growing Regions

The characteristics of Colombian coffee bean growing regions are divided into commercial beans and premium beans. Commercial coffee bean growing regions are concentrated in central and northern Colombia, mostly large-scale corporate coffee farms. Among these, the well-known "MAM" three major regions are Medellín, Armenia, and Manizales, with the main flavor being the familiar Central American flavor, with strong fruit acidity. However, Bucaramanga from the Santander province in the northeastern region is known for low acidity and heavy bitter aroma, somewhat similar to Indonesia's Mandheling. (This phenomenon might be due to lower altitude, causing decreased acidity)

Premium coffee bean growing regions are mainly in the south, with altitudes around 1500 meters above sea level, and with many volcanoes, creating many well-known premium growing regions, including Cauca, Huila, Meta, Tolima, Nariño, etc. The main flavor is caramel aroma, with delicate berry aroma and acidic fragrance, and obvious sweetness!

Huila

Huila province is located in the southern part of the central mountain range in southern Colombia and is the country's most famous premium coffee growing region. This area is hilly terrain surrounded by mountains, with cultivation altitude above 1500 meters. The most important rivers in Colombia converge here, bringing quite abundant water resources and water vapor.

Contrary to the general impression of balanced and smooth bulk Colombian coffee, many smallholder micro-batch produced Colombian premium coffees actually have very distinct regional flavor characteristics. In recent years, with the international market's emphasis on coffee quality and requirements for premium coffee, there has been a gradual shift away from the original system of grading by bean size, instead focusing on micro-regional selections from small farmers organized by micro-regional production. Dozens of small farmers provide their individual harvests consolidated into one micro-batch for sale, thus creating more opportunities to select many excellent specific smallholder coffees through batch-by-batch cupping.

FrontStreet Coffee: Colombian Huila Coffee Beans

Origin: Colombia
Variety: Caturra
Processing Method: Washed
Roast Level: Medium-Dark Roast
Altitude: 1500-1800m

Pour-Over Parameters for Colombian Premium Huila Coffee

Dripper: KONO Dripper
Water Temperature: 86-87°C
Coffee Amount: 15 grams
Coffee-to-Water Ratio: 1:15
Grind Size: 75% passes through #20 sieve

Segmented Extraction

For the first pour, use 30g of water for blooming, with a blooming time of about 30 seconds. For the second pour, continue until reaching 125g of water, then wait until the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed before continuing with the third pour to 225g total. Remove the dripper when the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed (timing starts from blooming). Total extraction time is 2'00".

Flavor Description:

Overall quite balanced with obvious sweetness. The entrance reveals black chocolate, nuts, and caramel, with soft fruit acidity as the temperature changes.

In people's lives, they are already filled with sour, sweet, bitter, and astringent flavors. The aroma of coffee is enough to take away everything in the mortal world. What people enjoy is not just as simple as a cup of coffee, but also the quiet moment that coffee brings to people. The most characteristic feature of Colombian premium coffee is its aroma—rich and thick, with bright premium acidity and high balance, leaving an endless aftertaste.

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