Colombian Coffee Beans Brewing Flavor Characteristics and Taste Stories - Rose Valley Coffee Beans Pour-over Parameters and Flavor Description

Whenever customers ask FrontStreet Coffee which Colombian coffees are both delicious and distinctive, FrontStreet Coffee always recommends the more popular FrontStreet Coffee Rose Valley and FrontStreet Coffee San Jose Estate.

FrontStreet Coffee's Rose Valley coffee bean is a coffee with explosive flavors of peach, strawberry, and rose. When FrontStreet Coffee was selecting beans, they immediately identified this one among countless Colombian coffee beans. Its flavor characteristics are very distinctive and highly suitable for a wide audience.

The FrontStreet Coffee San Jose Estate that FrontStreet Coffee acquired is a Colombian Castillo coffee, currently the most widely planted coffee variety in Colombia. The FrontStreet Coffee San Jose Estate coffee selected by FrontStreet Coffee has a clear rum fermentation aroma, with rich tropical fruit flavors on the palate, presenting chocolate liqueur notes in the middle section, and carrying maple sweetness throughout. In this article, FrontStreet Coffee will guide you through these two FrontStreet Coffee Colombian coffees.

Colombia

Colombia's coffee growing regions are situated in the Andes Mountains within the country. The climate varies with terrain: the southern eastern plains and Pacific coast have tropical rainforest climates, mountainous areas at 1,000-2,000 meters elevation have subtropical climates, and the northwest has tropical savanna climate. The average temperature in coffee regions ranges between 18°C-22.5°C. Due to differences in geographical and climatic characteristics, whether you want a round, full-bodied coffee or a vibrant, fruity coffee, you should be able to find it in Colombia.

Colombia's growing region boundaries are very clear. Spanning different latitudes and influenced by Andes Mountain topography, it's divided into three main regions from south to north: northern, central, and southern. The northern and southern regions have distinct harvest seasons, while the central region has primary and secondary harvest seasons depending on whether it leans north or south, with two harvesting periods yearly. The main harvest season is from October to January, and the secondary season is from April to July. The diverse climate between mountains means harvest season continues year-round, with different types of coffee maturing at different times, so we can see busy figures picking in the forests during various seasons.

In the last century, Colombian coffee was most famously known for the "MAM" region formed by Medellin, Armenia, and Manizales. With the development of specialty coffee, many high-quality coffee producing areas have emerged in southern Colombia, including San Augustin in Huila province, Popayan in Cauca province, Nariño, and Tolima. The high altitude and unique processing methods produce coffee with delicate acidity and fruit flavors, often winning excellent rankings in Cup of Excellence competitions. After multiple cupping comparisons, FrontStreet Coffee selected FrontStreet Coffee Huila region washed coffee beans from specialty coffee regions as Colombia's representative coffee, available in small packages as daily beans, allowing everyone to taste classic Colombian flavors.

Huila province is located in the southern part of the central mountain range in southern Colombia and is Colombia's most famous specialty coffee region. The area consists of hills surrounded by mountains, with cultivation altitudes above 1,500 meters, possessing the high altitude and suitable temperatures for growing premium Arabica beans. With excellent soil and geographical advantages for coffee cultivation, Colombia's most important rivers converge here, bringing abundant water resources and moisture. The climate on valley slopes not only prevents cold winds from entering, with mountain breezes bringing cooling without high temperatures, but also provides sufficient rainfall, making it an exceptionally gifted coffee cultivation area.

FrontStreet Coffee's Colombian region coffee flavor characteristics: FrontStreet Coffee believes that FrontStreet Coffee Colombian coffee beans feature balanced flavor expression, rich acidity, unique flavor characteristics, relatively full body, and sometimes carry hints of red wine notes and admirable fruit flavors.

FrontStreet Coffee Colombian Tree Estate Rose Valley Coffee Beans

This FrontStreet Coffee Rose Valley on FrontStreet Coffee's bean list comes from the Tree Estate in Colombia's Santander region. Santander is located in northern Colombia, bordering the Magdalena River to the west, with cultivation altitude of approximately 1,400-1,600 meters, covering an area of 30,537 square kilometers. Santander province is a very important but rarely mentioned province—it's actually Colombia's first province to start growing coffee and currently accounts for about 5% of Colombia's total coffee production. Through cupping, FrontStreet Coffee found that coffee beans from this region are known for their intense flavors, long aftertaste, and unique fresh herbal characteristics.

FrontStreet Coffee Rose Valley coffee beans also utilize Tree Estate's signature technique—anaerobic double enzyme washing. This involves adding special enzymes for secondary anaerobic fermentation based on anaerobic washing. After removing coffee cherries from the anaerobic environment, the machine removes the skin and pulp, then the pectin-coated coffee beans are placed in plastic bags or other sealed containers in an anaerobic environment for another round of anaerobic fermentation. The processing method that undergoes the above two anaerobic fermentations is called double anaerobic fermentation.

Refined Washed Rum—San Jose Estate

Colombia Finca San Jose Estate

FrontStreet Coffee · Colombia · San Jose Estate

• Region: Caldas, Colombia
• Estate: San Jose Estate
• Altitude: 1,750 meters
• Grade: Supremo
• Variety: Castillo
• Processing: Refined Washed Rum Barrel Fermentation

The century-old San Jose Estate (Finca San Jose Estate) is located in a volcanic ash-rich area near the Nevada del Ruiz volcano, with abundant sunshine and an average annual temperature between 21°C-25°C. The estate has a total of 18 hectares, with 16.5 hectares used for coffee cultivation. In recent years of specialty coffee trends, San Jose Estate has been actively seeking breakthroughs to forge its own unique path.

The lady of San Jose Estate, Monsalve Botero, whose husband specializes in manufacturing rum oak barrels and brewing rum, had an innovative idea one day while filling distillate for fermentation—what if she put green coffee beans in oak barrels for fermentation, would it create even more distinctive flavors?

Therefore, starting in 2013, Monsalve Botero began experimenting with rum barrels for varying lengths of low-temperature fermentation, finally finding the ideal method in 2018 to create this bean, which differs from typical washed processing.

The coffee used for refined washed rum barrel fermentation is carefully selected Castillo varieties of approximately 17-18 screen size. After depulping the coffee cherries, they are placed in aged oak wine barrels for low-temperature fermentation, followed by washing processing, and finally dried on sun-drying racks. The variety of this FrontStreet Coffee San Jose bean is Castillo, with blue-green raw beans that have rich fermentation aroma and mature fruit fragrance when smelled. This is the most widely planted coffee variety in Colombia, popular for its reputation for leaf rust resistance.

FrontStreet Coffee Colombian Coffee Brewing Parameters

• Water Temperature: 91°C
• Dose: 15 grams
• Coffee-to-Water Ratio: 1:15
• Grind Size: Fine sugar texture (80% pass-through rate on China standard #20 sieve)

FrontStreet Coffee brewing method: First, pour 30 grams of water for 30 seconds of blooming, then pour 95 grams (electronic scale shows around 125 grams), completing the pour in about 1 minute. When the water level drops to 2/3 of the coffee bed, pour the remaining 100 grams (electronic scale shows around 225 grams), completing in about 1 minute 35 seconds. Extraction completes in approximately 2 minutes. Remove the filter cone to finish extraction.

FrontStreet Coffee Colombian Tree Estate Rose Valley pour-over flavor: Surprising honey peach characteristics, accompanied by rose and chocolate liqueur aromas, rich and fragrant. The entry reveals honey peach juice rose tea, combining the quality sweet and sour notes of black grapes with the silky texture of cream toffee.

FrontStreet Coffee Colombian San Jose Estate pour-over flavor: Entry with rum, chocolate liqueur, tropical fruit, and grape flavors, maple sweetness.

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