Super tasty & smooth decaf with sweet notes of caramel, brown sugar & honeycomb
This is a single origin speciality decaf coffee, produced by smallholder farmers in the Andes mountains of Huila, in southwestern Colombia.
They're washed processed decaf coffee beans that are decaffeinated using the Sugarcane process.
Caturra & Castillo are the varietals, the SCA score is 85, and they're produced at altitudes of around 1500-1750M.
This without a doubt one of the best tasting speciality decaf coffees I've experienced so far. I'd even say it impresses me just as much as our Milk Chocolate & Caramel Honduras Decaf, which is really saying something!
Sugarcane Decaffeination
This coffee is decaffeinated using the "Sugarcane" process, one of the few natural decaffeination processes, alongside the Swiss water decaf process used for our Milk Chocolate & Caramel Honduran Decaf.
This process removes 99.7% of the caffeine using a naturally occurring compound which is produced by fermenting molasses, made 100% from sugarcane.
How it Tastes
Many people drink coffee for the enjoyment these days, not purely for the caffeine, particularly when it comes to high quality, freshly roasted coffee beans. So it's important that we continually focus on our range of decaf coffee beans.
We're not going to add coffee beans to the range just because they're decaf. They have to be amazing, and this is why we've only had two decafs for so long.
To say this decaf is good enough to make the range, is an understatement! From the first taste I knew these beans were going to be the third decaf to feature in our range!
The first time I tasted this decaf, the main taste note was caramel, and I noted how smooth the mouthfeel was.
As I continued tasting, via different brew methods, and as flat white, latte & Americano, I was getting notes of honeycomb, caramel, brown sugar, and fudge. In fact, with one of the flat whites I made, I literally shouted out "Daim bar". It tasted like I'd blended a Daim bar into a flat white, which is something I'm now, obviously, going to have to try.
Andes Mountains, Hulia Departement, Colombia
This coffee is grown under the shade of Walnut trees & Plantain plants in the central mountain range of the Colombian Andes in the Huila Department of Colombia.
Produced by a number of smallholder coffee farmers, the beans are hand picked & sorted, before being carefully processed via the washed processing method, and then decaffeinated using the sugarcane decaf process.
