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FrontStreet Coffee Single Origin - Geisha Coffee

Colombia La Esperanza 100% Geisha Kamitsu Honey

Colombia La Esperanza Estate 100% Geisha [Honey] Honey Process

Flavor Description

The dry aroma features blueberry, peach, lemongrass, bergamot, and floral notes.

On entry you'll find fresh lemon peel, citrus, bergamot, blueberry, peach, and frangipani.

Through the middle and finish, fresh strawberry, honey aroma, and sweetness emerge, as fragrant as flower nectar, with a smooth texture.

Coffee Details

Country: Colombia

Region: Valle de Cauca

Estate: Cerro Azul Estate, Magarita Estate

Producer: Rigoberto (Rigo) Herrera

Processing: Honey Process

Variety: 100% Geisha

Altitude: 1,600 - 1,750 meters

Kamitsu means "honey" in Japanese.

This custom product, specially commissioned from Colombia's premier La Esperanza Estate, was conceptualized and named by us. As a sequel to the Hanami Geisha, which featured the elegant charm of washed processing and flowers, this version emphasizes the distinctive refined honey aroma of honey processing and its heart-soothing, silky mouthfeel.

Honey processing today comes in many styles - white, gold, red, orange, and black, too many to list - and even dry fermentation or anaerobic fermentation can be combined with honey processing. Amid the complex evolution of processing techniques, how much honey-process flavor can you still taste?

After several rounds of sample exchanges, we selected specific batches of Geisha from Cerro Azul Estate and Magarita Estate, grown at 1,600-1,750 meters, for this Kamitsu edition.

When developing this product with the estate owner, we went straight back to the original intention of honey processing - achieving the vertical sensory experience its name suggests, especially when working with a delicate and elegant variety like Geisha.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you enjoy the silky, honeyed side of Geisha, the next step is to explore how estate and processing change the cup. FrontStreet Gesha Village Gold Label belongs to the Gesha 1931 variety and accounts for 10% of the village's total output - the top coffee the village produces outside its auction, and a frequent choice of competition baristas. It is processed with a refined natural method, and the cup is complex and layered, captivating in dry aroma and generous through the sip and the long finish.

For a different expression of the variety, FrontStreet Granada Estate Geisha comes from a rare single-variety estate in Ethiopia, at the border of the Kochore and Grana Abaya regions. Cherries are hand-picked fully ripe and dried on raised beds, with 14-20 days of drying depending on the weather. Roasted medium-light, it shows the bright acidity of citrus, an elegant ginger flower aroma, and the full sweetness of ripe fruit, with a delicate, silky body and the refined finish that defines the Geisha variety.

Geisha is a medium-light roasted, floral, fruit-forward coffee with a denser bean that can sink and clog the drain hole during brewing, so FrontStreet suggests a grind around 78% passing a China standard #20 sieve, close to fine caster sugar, and a brew water temperature of 91 degrees Celsius. FrontStreet brews Geisha with 15g of coffee in a small Hario V60 at a 1:16 ratio, using a three-stage pour: start the timer and pour to 30g for a 30-second bloom; then a slow circular pour to 125g; wait for the bed to drop halfway, then continue slowly to 225g. Total extraction time runs about 2 minutes 10 seconds to 2 minutes 20 seconds.