About the coffee

From Prestin at Flower Child:

I chose this coffee for MCL because I didn't want to make it too difficult or far out of our normal specialty coffee intake. Pink Bourbon has a uniquely tropical style to it, although it can vary quite a bit! These tasting notes and characteristics came across fairly straightforward and singular to me, leading me to put this shining lot in for us to try and guess.

Carlos has an excellent outcrop of Pink Bourbon to share with us this year. This has been a standout coffee on the cupping tables this season from Colombia's main harvest. The cup profile is noticeably lively with a juicy-fruit saturation. This Rosado has a round feel with a bright acidity to match the prominent stone fruit sweetness and a red apple acidity. A pleasure all around from hot to cool, and a wonderful option for immersion and filter brew styles.

The Producer: Carlos Mario

Carlos Mario has been growing his operation in Pitalito for the last fifteen years. He now has two farms and a growing variety of cultivars. His wife Patricia and uncle Hermes help keep the farms updated. There are also up to ten seasonal workers that help pick and process the coffee during the main harvest.

This micro-lot was processed in their multi-step beneficio. The cherries were hand-selected at their ripest and held in-cherry for 24 hours. The coffee was then depulped and fermented for 60 hours, washed, and then dried on raised beds until the moisture content reached a stable 10.2%.

The Variety: Pink Bourbon

Pink Bourbon is a fairly new varietal to the world of coffee. It has vastly changed the specialty landscape of Colombian farming in the last few years. This variety has been identified as a Landrace with a prized profile that is now highly sought after. Many roasters like myself are paying much higher premiums for coffees like this with such high cup quality. I hope you enjoy this coffee as much as I do!

Now onto the top placers:

In first place with 23 points: skippernomnomnom!

In second place with 21 points: Spenny!

In third place with 20 points: cheushii!