Characteristics of Colombian San Agustin Coffee? Colombian Coffee Grading

Introduction to Colombian Coffee

Originating from Colombia, coffee beans release a sweet aroma after roasting, characterized by a pleasant combination of acidity and sweetness with balanced bitterness. Due to its appropriate concentration, it is often used in premium coffee blends.

Colombian coffee offers a unique bitter experience, with clarity and astringency that mirror life itself, while bitterness becomes an essential element in life. The lingering fragrance at the root of the tongue serves as a thorough recollection of the past. Bitterness represents pain, clarity brings tranquility, and the final fragrance becomes a spiritual victory.

The Emerald Coffee

Colombian coffee is one of the few single-origin coffees sold under its own name worldwide. In terms of quality, no other coffee has received such high praise from coffee enthusiasts. It also has a beautiful name called "Emerald Coffee."

The Colombian people's pursuit of coffee quality can only be described with one word: serious. Nothing but serious. A widely circulated example is that although Colombians could replace Bourbon coffee trees with fast-growing and high-yield Arabica coffee trees, they are unwilling to act hastily until they confirm the quality of coffee beans produced by Arabica trees. They would willingly give up their position as the world's second-largest coffee producer to Vietnam, which only grows Robusta coffee.

Natural Pasture

Colombia's suitable climate provides coffee with a true "natural pasture." However, the people there don't deliberately emphasize their superior growing conditions. They prefer to hear people praise the excellent taste of their coffee beans. They dislike being evaluated as if Colombian coffee's reputation relies solely on its unique geographical location. They hope people will see their diligent work and relentless pursuit of quality, their painstaking efforts and immense sacrifices behind coffee quality, and the gratifying changes in their coffee bean quality that "renew daily" and "keep pace with the times." Achieving this is very difficult.

Colombians are clearly people who dare to transcend and endure solitude; they have never indulged themselves or become complacent in the face of good fortune. Instead, they continuously refine and polish their coffee quality, which is precisely the perfect interpretation of why they can cultivate Colombian specialty coffee.

Varieties

Colombian beans are graded with Supremo as the highest level, followed by Excelso. However, only Supremo grade coffee with beans above size 18 (18/64 inch diameter) can be classified as specialty coffee. Colombian coffee has balanced flavor with a smooth texture, much like a gentleman among coffees, well-behaved and standard. Its production area is extensive, with the best coffee coming from the central mountainous regions, featuring rich texture. The most famous producing areas include Medellin, Armenia, and Manizales, collectively known as "MAM." In addition, Narino coffee has excellent taste and outstanding quality. It is said that Starbucks, which operates specialty coffee, has the exclusive purchasing rights to Narino Supremo coffee beans, which are commonly found in their chain stores.

San Agustin

Produced in the southern region of Huila province, a well-known coffee-growing area in Colombia, South America. These premium beans are processed at the Condor processing plant using the semi-washed method. In this region, some small farms still insist on producing Colombia's famous old Typica varieties, refusing to use the improved new Typica varieties. Condor selects these high-quality beans from small farmers for careful processing and export.

Since most specialty coffees in Colombia have rich ripe fruit aroma and obvious sweetness in the aftertaste, to preserve these precious fruit acids and rich, bright sweetness of San Agustin, these raw beans are specially treated with city roasting to handle this complex, multi-layered premium coffee bean. It is believed that coffee connoisseurs who love semi-washed coffee from Central and South America will definitely enjoy this San Agustin coffee with its bright ripe fruit aroma and rich sweetness.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendations:

V60 brewing method at 89-91°C with a 1:15 coffee-to-water ratio and extraction time of two minutes.

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