LONDON, UK – Caravan Coffee Roasters announces the launch of their latest coffee from Finca El Fénix in collaboration with Raw Material, a social enterprise coffee importer and long-term partners of Caravan. The El Fenix Tasting Set is an exploration of the unique flavours created by processing technology. Using three distinct methods to take the coffee from cherry to bean, we’ve isolated all other variables from this lot in order to examine how processing itself impacts flavour.
This is a very rare opportunity to taste the impact of this lesser understood aspect of coffee farming, and to appreciate just how amazingly diverse even just one coffee can be.
Caravan Coffee Roasters and El Fénix
Finca El Fénix is a multi-use farm and community wet mill in Quindío, Colombia, founded and run by our close partners, Raw Material, a social enterprise coffee importer. In 2016, Caravan supported the buildout of El Fénix’s wet mill by sponsoring eight lots of coffee: from which this coffee was harvested. Since inception, the aim of El Fenix has been to support producers in the local community, by offering higher, stable and transparent pricing for coffees, as well as by offering training and support for everything from how to raise rare coffee varietals to advanced processing methods and access to specialty markets.
About Coffee Processing
In coffee, when we speak of processing, we are typically discussing the methods used to take the product from its original form – a seed inside a cherry – to dried, export-ready beans which can survive the long journey to their final destination. To do this, farmers and mill workers turn to many different forms of technology, often based on the terroir of the region where they are located, their access to resources such as fresh water and electricity, and the cultural contexts in which they live.
The El Fenix Tasting Set
This tasting set comprises of three x 80g tins of whole bean coffee, processed in the washed, honey & natural style. Because the coffee is all the same varietal (Tabi) and harvested from the same lot, on the same farm, in the same week… the differences in the cup are overwhelmingly due to the differences in processing technique.
- Washed Process: Depulped cherry fermented in fresh water before drying on raised beds for 14 days.
Tasting notes: Pink fruits, floral, black tea, custard - Honey Process: Depulped cherry with fruit pulp still attached, laid to dry on raised beds for 14 days.
Tasting notes: Red apple, condensed milk, apricot, sweet baking spice - Natural Process: Ripe, intact cherries, sorted for impurities and laid to dry on raised beds for 14 days.
Tasting notes: Blackberry jam, crème caramel, mango, treacle
Pricing
Available to buy at: www.caravancoffeeroasters.co.uk – £18 (3 x 80g whole bean)
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