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Jose Cuellar Geisha Natural
FRESH STRAWBERRY | BLUEBERRY JAM | VIOLETS
This natural processed Geisha comes from Jose Cuellar - a rare coffee producer in Huila, Colombia. He’s been in coffee for a very long time, but his latest venture has taken him out of the normal path of Colombian coffee production. He has planted eight different coffee varieties and has been working through many super cool processing experiments. Read the full story below.
This omniroast has been optimized for filter, but a well trained barista will definitely be able to pull tasty shots with it.
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GOOD COLOMBIAN NATURALS ARE RARE
We started working with Jose in 2023 and got off to an amazing start. He was introduced to me by Ratibor Hartmann (from Panama’s Finca Hartmann, Guarumo and Mi Finquita) during a visit together to Colombia that year. Jose has tons of coffee varieties and has been experimenting with different processing methods.
Jose has been working in coffee for 25 years. He is a 4th generation coffee farmer. His farm, Finca el Paraíso, is located at 1700m in the south of Huila near the town of Pitalito. El Paraíso is 8 hectares and he has planted Geisha, Pink Bourbon, Sidra, Bourbon Ají and Bourbon Rallado. He was a traditional, commodity farmer until 2012, when he discovered the world of coffee varieties and became fascinated with it. He decided to transform his farm and started to plant different varieties and learn more on processing. It took many years for the farm to be transformed but he is now finally enjoying production from his many varieties.
Natural processed coffees are hard to do for the average producer, especially in Colombia. But Jose took advice from Ratibor and uses low moisture air to help slowly dry his coffee. This lot went through a 24 hour anaerobic fermentation in cherry and was then gently dried on raised beds. This slow, gentle drying process is the best way to dry naturals.
– Sebastian