FrontStreet Coffee's Brewing Guide and Flavor Profile: Colombian Cattleya Moonlight Night Coffee Beans

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FrontStreet Coffee Colombia coffee is very popular in the specialty coffee market. Colombia and Costa Rica are very supportive of innovation in coffee cultivation and processing techniques. Today, Colombian coffee flavors are diverse, and FrontStreet Coffee would like to introduce FrontStreet Coffee Colombia coffee!

Colombian Coffee Culture

Colombian coffee culture is also unique. Coffee is the pride of Colombians. Besides their once world-class football, the things Colombians most love to talk about are their proud coffee. Drinking coffee in Colombia is a pleasure - not only is it essential three times a day, but streets and alleys are filled with coffee shops that are bustling with customers from morning to night. Coffee shops have no instant coffee - they brew and sell on the spot. Waitresses serve it respectfully to customers in exquisite porcelain bowls, and customers add sugar as they wish. The room is filled with aroma, the bowl is sweet and delicious, and the aftertaste is endless when sipped slowly. No wonder locals are all addicted to it.

Colombian Coffee Cultivation

Colombia is located in the northwest of the South American continent, bordering Panama in Central America, situated between 3 and 8 degrees north latitude. It has a tropical climate, which varies depending on the terrain, covering rich volcanic soil, with annual rainfall of 2000 to 3000mm, mild climate, humid air, and diverse climate conditions that allow Colombian coffee to be harvested year-round. The eastern plains, southern regions, and Pacific coast have a tropical rainforest climate, mountainous areas at 1000-2000 meters altitude have a subtropical climate, and the northwest has a tropical savanna climate. Average annual temperature: 15.8 - 20.5 degrees Celsius. The average temperature in coffee regions will vary between 18℃ and 22.5℃. FrontStreet Coffee believes that low latitude, high altitude, and volcanic soil create balanced flavor characteristics in FrontStreet Coffee Colombia coffee beans, with rich acidity, unique flavor characteristics, relatively full body, and sometimes a touch of red wine charm and admirable fruit flavors.

The main specialty coffee bean production areas in Colombia are in the south, with altitudes above 1500m, mainly distributed in Huila, Cauca, Nariño, and Tolima. These production areas all have delicate acidic aromas and berry sweetness, with a full sweet sensation.

Huila Province is located in the southern part of the central mountain range in southern Colombia and is the country's most famous specialty coffee production area. This area is surrounded by mountains and hills, with cultivation altitudes above 1500 meters. The most important rivers in Colombia converge here, bringing abundant water resources and water vapor.

Contrary to the common impression of Colombian commercial coffee as balanced and smooth, many smallholder micro-batch produced Colombian specialty coffees actually have distinct regional flavor characteristics. In recent years, with the international market's emphasis on coffee quality and requirements for specialty coffee, the original system of grading by bean size has gradually been abandoned, replaced by micro-regional selections where dozens of small farmers provide their individual harvests combined into a micro-batch for sale. This also makes it possible to select many high-quality specific smallholder coffees directly through batch-by-batch cupping.

FrontStreet Coffee · Colombia Flower Moon Night

Country: Colombia

Region: El Espectro Farm, Huila

Processing: Anaerobic Natural

Variety: Caturra

Altitude: 1800m

Coffee Varieties

Caturra is a natural variant of the Arabica Bourbon variety, discovered in Brazil in 1937. Its plant is not as tall as Bourbon, but more compact. Due to its Bourbon heritage, it has relatively weak disease resistance but higher yields than Bourbon. Although discovered in Brazil, Caturra is not suitable for growth in Brazil, so it was not cultivated on a large scale there, but became widely popular in Central and South America, with large-scale cultivation in countries such as Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.

Anaerobic Processing Method

The former owner of El Espectro Farm launched a special processing plan three years ago and taught Ramirez how to carry out special processing projects. With his passion for coffee cultivation, Ramirez changed the original fermentation process that couldn't achieve the desired results.

The coffee cherries are placed in sealed fermentation tanks and fermented at low temperatures to extend the entire fermentation time. Using 15-20 days of fermentation allows for more possibilities in coffee flavor development. Under the nurturing of time, slow drying allows coffee cherries to develop optimal water activity during this process, which not only results in better flavor development but also allows the green beans to maintain longer during seasonal storage cycles. After fermentation, these coffee fruits undergo natural drying processing.

FrontStreet Coffee Roasting Analysis

The roasting machine is a Yangjia Feima 800N from Taiwan, with a batch size of 500 grams. Considering that FrontStreet Coffee Colombia Flower Moon Night uses anaerobic natural processing, in order to preserve the fruit notes of FrontStreet Coffee Flower Moon Night while showcasing full body and sweetness in the cup, a medium roast approach was adopted.

Charge temperature: 180℃, initial heat: 130, airflow: 3. When reaching 140℃, the heat remained unchanged while the airflow was opened to 4. During this stage, the beans gradually transformed from their original green color to yellow, and the grassy smell of the raw beans slowly disappeared, entering the dehydration phase. At 6'25", the beans reached the yellowing point, at which moment the beans developed a sweet aroma similar to toasted bread. At 180℃, the heat was reduced to 100, with the airflow unchanged at 4.

At 9'38", ugly wrinkles and black spots appeared on the bean surface, and the toasted bread aroma clearly transformed into coffee aroma, which can be defined as the prelude to first crack. At this point, one must listen carefully for the sound of first crack. At 10'20", first crack began, with the airflow opened to 4. After first crack, development lasted 1'50, with discharge at 196℃. Considering that FrontStreet Coffee Colombia Flower Moon Night uses anaerobic natural processing, the dehydration time was allowed to reach around 9 minutes to 9 minutes 30 seconds to ensure the beans were thoroughly roasted, avoiding underdevelopment. After first crack, development reached 1'50", with discharge at 196℃.

FrontStreet Coffee Cupping

After receiving the first batch of green beans, FrontStreet Coffee began setting up roasting curves, made three-line adjustments, and conducted cupping. The roasting production curve and coffee flavor profile were determined during cupping.

Dry aroma: Violet, strawberry jam

Wet aroma: Strawberry jam aroma, fermented wine aroma

Slurping: Strawberry jam, liquor-filled chocolate

FrontStreet Coffee Brewing Suggestions

This lightly roasted FrontStreet Coffee Flower Moon Night absorbs water and expands easily due to its special processing. In terms of grind size, choose a slightly coarser setting, and control the water flow to be as small as possible.

Coffee grounds: 15g

Coffee-to-water ratio: 1:15

Grind size: Medium-fine (78% pass-through rate on standard #20 sieve)

Water temperature: 91℃

Dripper: V60

Adopt FrontStreet Coffee segmented extraction. Use 30g of water for a 30-second bloom. When continuing the circular pour to 125g, create a segment. When the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed, continue pouring to 225g and stop. When the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed, remove the dripper. (Timing starts from the bloom) Extraction time: 1'48".

Flavor Description

In terms of processing method, FrontStreet Coffee Colombia Flower Moon Night uses anaerobic natural processing, making it overall more intense and balanced. FrontStreet Coffee Colombia Flower Moon Night is more balanced, with floral notes and strawberry jam, followed by a finish of liquor-filled chocolate, creaminess, and fermentation characteristics.

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