Aponte

£9.00

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TASTE	Almond, Red Apple, Dried Apricot
ORIGIN	Colombia
REGION	Nariño
VARIETAL	Caturra
PROCESS	Washed
ALTITUDE	2150 masl

Aponte is a small town located in the Inga Resguardo Aponte on land belonging to the Inga indigenous group, in the far west of the country on the border with Ecuador. This is and has been a really tough area to produce coffee. In the past the region was controlled by drug traffickers and guerrilla groups and now the community has to deal with a fault line that runs straight through the town.

Fernando Ordoñez is the co-op’s liaison with Aponte, and he noted that specialty coffee is particularly important to Aponte because the town is essentially the end of the road, and further up into the mountains farming tends to produce illegal crops. The stronger the purchasing power of the co-op, the more opportunity it creates for landowners to have a sustainable, legal livelihoods.

Each producer has a small mill area for depulping, washing, and drying on their farms. They process coffee daily as it comes freshly harvested from the trees. In Colombia it is common for cherries to be processed on the farms where they are grown. Coffee trees are typically planted right up to the walls of the mill and cherries usually go straight from harvest buckets into the hopper.

Our espresso recipe for this coffee
DRY DOSE	18 grams
WET DOSE	38 - 40 grams
TEMP	93 °C
PRESSURE	9 bar
TIME	30 seconds

Our filter recipe for this coffee
BREW METHOD	V60
COFFEE	20 grams
WATER	330 ml – 94°C
GRIND	Coarse
TIME	50ml bloom • 30 seconds • Stir 150ml • 50 seconds • Circular Pour 250ml • 1:05 mins • Circular Pour At 1:30 min pour into the centre to 330ml by 2:00min Total brew time 3:00

We would recommend this as a starting point. Remember to wet the paper lots before brewing.

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