La Guaca | Costa Rica

Variety: catuai
Processing: Sealed fermentation black honey
Q Score: 87 and over

76,00 

 

This superstar is gracing our menu for the third year in a row. A lot of wine madness, huge fruity sweetness and fantastic intensity. We’re turning coffee into a funk!

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Manufacturer

Ureña Rojas Family

Processing

Sealed fermentation black honey

Variety

catuai

Q score

87 and over

Country

Costa Rica

Type

Arabica

Heretical opinions

Peter: A coffee with a turbo intense, somewhat crazy profile. There’s funk, there’s fruit, there’s some natural wine. Everything closed beautifully. It’s as if a tuxedo-clad philharmonic orchestra played a Carl Carlton cover. If we were giving flavor notes, I would write that even bubble gum. Well, but we don’t give. So I don’t write!”

Ola: “A bit like a party with friends during a warm evening!”

More geeky stuff

crop location: 1,700 meters above sea level.

crop: 2023

importer: 88 Graines

 

FARMA

Coffees from Cafe Rivense are another direct trade among our heretical items. This beautiful farm nestled among the greenest mountains of central Costa Rica. The family business of Mr. and Mrs. Ureña, in which everything runs like a Swiss watch. La Guaca is a high-altitude plantation on a farm where practically only one strain is grown – catuai – perhaps the most popular variety in these coffee regions.

 

TREATMENT

Here Regulo and his sons went all the way. Before the coffee was reprocessed as black honey (lots of pulp on the beans), it fermented for itself for more than 24 hours in sealed containers. The whole process was, of course, controlled by these professionals, because after all, we want to drink coffee, not kombucha, right? A wild party ensued, but without a hangover in the morning!

 

AND WE SMOKE IT LIKE THIS

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