Colombia - Los Patios Watermelon Co-Ferment

Developed by Crop to Cup's Research & Development team at our processing facility in La Plata, Huila, Colombia, this lot aims to elevate Castillo‘s traditional and robust profile, complementing it with a watermelon fruity punch.

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Crop to Cup purchases de-pulped cherries from various producers in the region, whose farms range from 1,600 – 1,900 m.a.s.l and are an average of 3 Ha in size.

• Before delivering the wet parchment to Los Patios, these producers handle the first stage of the processing with 12 hour aerobic fermentation in cherry.
• Once at Los Patios, the Crop to Cup R&D department adds the commercial watermelon concentrate, along with our own proprietary solution to the de-pulped coffee. There is an additional fermentation during this stage, but more so the focus is a transfer of the precursors available within our watermelon concentrate + proprietary solution.
• This fermentation and absorption phase lasts for 2 days until the coffee is drained and dried in mechanical silos for 8 days straight, where it is monitored and rotated constantly to ensure an even drying.