May Mystery Reveal - Flower Child

It's time to reveal the mystery coffee for May! We hope you all enjoyed this one - Thanks to Flower Child for another great mystery! With no further ado - the reveal.

About the coffee and the producer:

Ernedis has produced distinguished profile out of his Sidra production this season, this second pass is absolutely gorgeous. The cup is lively with purple fruits like plum, tokaji grape and an array of cherry notes. There are bright floral blossoms as the cup cools. Overall, this is a sweet cup with bright notes clearly articulating a delicate florality throughout. The notes for this cup go on and on, I cannot recommend Ernedis' coffee enough. This is a very interesting and enjoyable coffee. Ernedis and his crew have illuminated the potential of the Sidra variety with this latest crop, I cannot get enough.

Only the ripest cherries are picked and upon arriving to the wet-mill, are floated, de-pulped and the dry-fermented for 84 hours. After washing, the coffee is then laid to dry in a greenhouse for anywhere from 18-25 days, depending on the weather.

Ernedis is one of the hardest working and smartest producers we know and his efforts pay plenty of dividends! Not only has he commented to us that he views his farm as a company (like every farmer should), but being able to sell his coffee at elevated prices, consistently for so many years, means that he has really become the CEO of the company; he doesn’t work the coffee fields anymore, he oversees the workers he hires to clean, fertilize and pick cherries and focuses his efforts on the processing and drying.

A couple of years ago, he was able to upgrade his infrastructure and now has a wet-mill that auto sorts and floats the cherries prior to de-pulping. This is a huge step and saves Ernedis an enormous amount of time and work, allowing him to better focus his attention on other areas of the business. Some ecological examples of this are a 3-step process for composting the cherry pulp, using an eco-washer to wash the coffee (these eco-washers use literally a fraction of the water to wash the coffees, compared to the traditional washing) and using organic methods to filter the “honey water”. A one-of-a-kind producer that we are thrilled to be able to work with!

Statistics

Now onto the top placers:

In first place with 17 points: coffeenerdroaster23 and scirocco16!
In second place with 13 points: aussz, aelsweth, NotChet, krakenup, SubaBrew, flamehead213, and Alan!
In third place with 12 points: Kap and willow!

Thanks to all who guessed! If you'd like to buy more from Flower Child, buy here: Coffees – FLOWER CHILD COFFEE

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