Is Pink Bourbon Coffee Delicious? Rich Juicy Flavor Profile of Colombian Pink Bourbon

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FrontStreet Coffee - Colombian Pink Bourbon Introduction

In the traditional image, Colombian coffee has always been known for its balance and subtle acidity. Because of its balanced flavor and affordable price, it is often used as a base coffee. But this coffee will refresh your stereotype of Colombian coffee: it can taste of peach, citrus and raspberry, with notes of floral, vanilla and black tea.

Explosive juiciness is no longer an exclusive trait of African beans. Some excellent farms and cooperatives with small production areas and limited cultivation are continuously improving their cultivation and processing of specialty varieties. This allows Colombian coffee to have a more distinctive personality while keeping a delicate texture, rounded acidity and a sweet aftertaste. Some rare varieties with special processing will stay in your memory even longer.

This batch introduces the Pink Bourbon from the Huila region. Pink Bourbon is, first and foremost, a bean that tastes "not quite Colombian." Why do we say that? Because its flavor profile resembles Kenyan coffee, with the bright acidity of red fruits.

Pink Bourbon is a hybrid of Red Bourbon and Yellow Bourbon. The success rate of the hybridization is relatively low, making Pink Bourbon quite rare, and it has strong disease resistance. Yellow Bourbon and Red Bourbon reproduce relatively stably, whereas the new Pink Bourbon that results from crossing them is difficult to produce consistently. Because cultivation is so demanding, the estate owners handle processing with extra care. Both washing and drying are done on rooftops, and freshly harvested fruit is processed immediately, ensuring that the washed coffee shows high flavor clarity.

Colombian Pink Bourbon

Product Name: Pink Bourbon

Origin: Huila

Processing Method: Semi-washed

Altitude: 1760M

FLAVOR: Juicy notes of grapefruit, blueberry and sweet orange, with floral notes in the mid-palate and a persistent brown sugar aftertaste.

In Brief

Pink Bourbon is rare precisely because it cannot be reproduced easily, so most of the care goes into the harvest and the drying stage. Grown at 1,760 meters in Huila and processed semi-washed, it turns the familiar balance of Colombian coffee into something much more vivid: grapefruit, blueberry and sweet orange juiciness, a floral mid-palate and a long brown sugar finish.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Pink Bourbon's juicy, floral take on Colombia appeals to you, FrontStreet Coffee's Strawberry Candy blend follows a similar idea. It combines a Costa Rican honey processed coffee, which adds grape, dried blueberry and strawberry-fudge sweetness, with a Panama Geisha, which brings fine rose and orange notes, producing a cup that is both floral and fruit-sweet. It works as a pour-over, a cold brew or an espresso.

For a pure Colombian expression in the same bright, fruit-forward style, the FrontStreet Colombia Sidra is a light-medium roast from the Frontera Estate that shows floral notes with tropical fruit, grape, dried fruit, passion fruit and a juice-like body, and it is excellent as a pour-over or an ice-drip.