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Colombia Coffee - La Clara Estate Supremo

Coffee Details

Country: Colombia

Region: Caldas

Estate: La Clara

Altitude: 1500m

Processing Method: Washed

The beans are uniform in appearance, with excellent aroma and a full-bodied flavor. This coffee is dark roasted, revealing notes of red berries, citrus, caramel milk, and nutty cocoa. Beyond the traditional Central and South American flavor profile, it also carries berry and citrus notes — a delightful surprise woven into a classic cup.

Colombia Premium La Clara Estate Washed

The owner of Villa Clara Café, Mr. Mejia Londoño, has been growing coffee in Colombia for over 40 years, and La Clara Estate itself has more than a century of coffee cultivation history.

Benefiting from the local geography, climate, soil, and biodiversity — and combined with the Mejia Londoño family's commitment to uphold high cupping standards from the moment the seedlings go into the ground, covering variety selection, growing methods, and strict harvesting and processing — they ensure consistently uniform Colombian coffee with distinctive regional character.

How to Brew Colombia Coffee [La Clara Estate] Perfectly?

FrontStreet Coffee Pour-Over Reference: Weigh out 15g of La Clara Estate coffee and grind to medium coarseness — slightly coarser than table salt. We use BG grinder setting 5R (standard sieve pass rate 60%), a water temperature of 89°C, and a V60 dripper for extraction, with a recommended coffee-to-water ratio of approximately 1:15.

Pour hot water from the kettle in clockwise circles centered in the middle of the filter. Start timing as you begin pouring, reaching 30g within 15 seconds, then stop. When the timer reaches 1 minute, begin the second pour. Continue pouring in clockwise circles centered in the middle of the filter, avoiding the seam where the coffee grounds meet the filter paper to prevent channeling.

Leave a ring of space when pouring reaches the outermost edge of the coffee bed, then keep circling inward toward the center. At 2 minutes and 20 seconds you should have reached 220g, completing the brew.

Japanese-Style Iced Pour-Over [La Clara Estate]

FrontStreet Coffee Iced Pour-Over La Clara Estate Reference:

Colombia Coffee La Clara Estate, light-medium roast, BG grinder setting 5M (standard sieve pass rate 67%)

20g of coffee, 150g of ice, 150g of hot water. The water temperature should be 1°C higher than the normal 90°C recommended for pour-over. For normal grinding, use the small Fuji setting 3.5; for iced pour-over, grind slightly finer — half a setting down to small Fuji setting 3. The recommended coffee-to-(water+ice) ratio is 1:15.

Bloom with 40g of water for 30 seconds.

Segmented pouring: the first segment uses 60g of water, the second segment 40g. Pour with a thin but tall water column, applying force to stir and agitate so the coffee grounds roll fully — but be careful not to let the liquid level rise too high or splash against the filter paper at the edges.

The entire extraction takes approximately 2.5 minutes (similar to the normal extraction time for 20g of coffee).

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Colombian coffee is wonderfully versatile — equally at home in espresso blends and as a pour-over single origin, spanning bright fruit-acid profiles, mellow and full-bodied cups, and aromatic, fragrance-forward styles. If the La Clara Estate has you in the mood for classic Colombian flavor, the FrontStreet Washed Huilan is the natural choice. Huilan province, in the hills of southern Colombia's Central Cordillera at altitudes above 1,500 meters where the country's most important rivers converge, is Colombia's most famous specialty coffee region.

Roasted medium-dark, the FrontStreet Huilan emphasizes the sweet, ganache-like notes of dark chocolate and nuts, with moderate crema and a mellow body. It shines not only as pour-over or French press but also through a moka pot or espresso machine, making Americanos and lattes with ease — a superb everyday companion to the La Clara's fruitier, washed Caldas character.