COOL WEATHER 2024/25 WONDER MENU THEME: QUINDIO - PARADISE Quindio is located 310 miles north of the Equator with an average altitude of just under 5,000 feet, ranging from 3,609 ft - 16,896 ft above see level. The land rolls like green waves of hills, valleys and peaks at the meeting point of the intertropical convergence zone, between two sets of Andes Mountains. It's said that the name Quindio, the second smallest state in Colombia, is indigenous Quimbaya for “Paradise.” The Cocora Valley, outside of Salento, Colombia The particular microclimate makes it lush, ripe with a seemingly endless array of tropical fruits such as lulo, guanabana, passion fruit, loquat, soursop, and mangosteen. It’s a place where 200 foot tall palm...
Cocoa Cinnamon, the name, is in part an homage to the intermingling of coffee and spices at some of the first coffee houses and recipes in history. To this day across the Middle East and parts of the Meditteranean, people brew coffee using traditional brewing vessels such as a çezve, ibrik, or briki brewing coffee and spices together. Many of the earliest coffee houses were founded in places such as Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo, where the Western end of ancient spice routes and early places to drink coffee intersected. Coffee, the drink, spread as Muslims coming to and from Mecca first encountered it in Yemen, and like many travelers who encounter something they love on trips, want to bring that...
Edwin Enrique Noreña's Golden Washed Pink Bourbon coffee played a key role in our 2022 Micro-roaster of the Year win. Having shared his coffee over the course of three years, we have developed an awe for his work. We first met in person at the 2022 SCA Coffee Expo in Boston where we had the chance to brew some of our roast of his coffee for him. The following year, in Portland, we met up again and served him our roast of his Pink Bourbon Red Honey Process with Purple Wine yeast coffee at the GH Grinding and Brewing Booth. CC Director of Retail, Mariah, and LW Production Roaster, Pin, also got to meet Edwin as did folks who were visiting...
Select Upcoming 2023/24 Little Waves Coffee features We will soon be receiving three beautiful coffees that we are very excited about. Upcoming Little Waves Coffees Pway Na Phar Natural Ywangan, Shan State, Myanmar This will be our first time sourcing a coffee from this growing region and we’re super excited. We cupped these last year and couldn’t wait to get in on this year’s crop. This coffee is sweet, clean , fruit forward, floral and spicy with a nice body. Can’t wait for y’all to try it. Tierra de mi Padre, Natural Nayarit, Mexico This coffee is a staple on our menu and every year it just keeps getting better and better. This year the team at San Cristobal...
Last Saturday, Leon had the great pleasure of hiking Finca Las Marias with Jose Giraldo of Café 1959 just east of Pijao, Qunidio, Colombia. Jose has visited our roastery a couple of times in the past few years and presented at our Roaster's Village booth at SCA Expo in Boston a couple of years back, serving his Mesa Alta that we roasted to our guests. It was a great pleasure to get to visit with Jose, Jimena, and their baby at their home, farm, and lab. Here's Leon's Field Report: It's about 9am at Finca Las Marias. The air is warm and cold, two temperatures back and forth moment to moment, warm air from the direct sun with pockets of cool...
