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Colombia Tolima Las Mercedes Finca Monte Verde Wushwush Natural Custom Batch

Tasting Notes: Bayberry & White Floral, Green Grape, Tangerine, Pomegranate, Dried Cranberry, Black Tea Finish

Region: Tolima

Producer: Gildardo Gutiérrez Tejada

Farm: Monteverde

Variety: Wush Wush

Process: Natural

Elevation: 1850 meters

Monte Verde Farm covers 15 hectares and cultivates varieties including Red Bourbon, Yellow Bourbon, Geisha, Wush Wush, and Mocha. The farm owner is Gilardo Gutierrez. The Gutierrez family's history of growing coffee at Monte Verde Farm dates back 70 years. Monte Verde Farm pays extreme attention to detail, harvesting only the most mature coffee cherries with controlled fermentation times of up to 36 hours. These efforts give Monte Verde Farm's coffee its unique fruit flavors. At Monte Verde Farm, coffee cherries are dried on raised beds in a drying space with plastic roofs, where air can freely circulate above and below the cherries, maintaining cool temperatures throughout the entire drying process, allowing the natural processing time to be slowly extended up to 25 days.

In Colombia, coffee has two harvest seasons throughout the year: the early harvest season from April to June, and the main harvest season from October to December. In addition to growing coffee, Monte Verde also grows avocados, citrus fruits, and lemons for the local market.

Recently, the farm owner Gilardo's son commented while tracing the farm's history: "I am a fourth-generation coffee farmer, and there are 4 children in our family who are professional coffee cuppers. When we learned about the great success achieved by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda in growing Geisha coffee, we spent 8 years working hard to cultivate excellent exotic varieties. We have planted many rare coffee varieties on our farm, and through honey processing and natural processing methods, we strive to bring our customers the quality they dream of. Many years ago, our farm was already a certified organic farm. Although the organic farm certification has now expired, we continue to practice clean and environmentally friendly agricultural measures."

How to Brew Colombia Coffee [Monte Verde Farm] Perfectly?

FrontStreet Coffee Pour-over Reference:

Measure 15g of [Monte Verde Farm] coffee powder, pour into a grinder and grind to medium coarseness, with particles slightly coarser than table salt. We use BG grinder setting 5R (standard sieve pass rate 60%), water temperature 89°C, extracted with V60 dripper, recommended powder-to-water ratio around 1:15.

Pour hot water from the pour-over kettle in clockwise circles centered on the middle of the filter, starting the timer when brewing begins. Brew to 30g in 15 seconds, then stop pouring water. When the time reaches 1 minute, begin the second pour. For the second pour, as before, pour in clockwise circles centered on the middle of the filter, ensuring the water stream doesn't hit the connection between the coffee powder and filter paper to avoid channel effects.

Leave one circle of space when brewing the coffee powder to the outermost circle, then brew circle by circle toward the center. At 2 minutes and 20 seconds, brew the coffee to 220g to complete the brewing process.

Japanese-style Ice Pour-over [Monte Verde Farm]

FrontStreet Coffee Ice Pour-over [Monte Verde Farm] Reference:

Colombia Coffee [Monte Verde Farm], light-medium roast, BG grinder setting 5M (standard sieve pass rate 67%)

20g powder, 150g ice cubes, 150g hot water. Water temperature is 1°C higher than the normal pour-over recommendation of 90°C. Normal grinding uses Fuji 3.5 setting, while ice pour-over uses slightly finer - Fuji 3 setting. Recommended powder-to-(water+ice) ratio 1:15.

Bloom water amount 40g, bloom time 30 seconds.

Segmented pouring, first segment 60g water, second segment 40g water. Used a relatively fine but high water column, stirring forcefully to ensure the coffee powder rolls completely, but be careful not to let the liquid level get too high and avoid hitting the filter paper at the edges.

The entire extraction time is approximately 2.5 minutes (similar to the normal extraction time for 20g powder).

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