Description
Columbia Supremo has a medium body with a medium brightness that creates a balanced coffee. We roast this coffee just past first crack to preserve the complexity of the flavors in this bean. Flavor notes are solid, including Milk Chocolate, Caramel, Vanilla, and Roasted Almond. This coffee comes from the Huila region in Columbia, a notable coffee-growing area that has claimed several Colombia Cup of Excellence awards over the years. Temperatures range from 16-20ºC and the terrain, with its gently rolling hills, is friendlier to farming efforts compared to the steep slopes commonly found across the country. Coffee production here is very much a family-oriented venture.
The Colombia Coffee Federation classifies and evaluates green coffee quality by screen size and the number of defects present in a sample. In Colombia, green coffee beans are considered specialty if it scores above 80 points, has zero primary defects, and has no more than five secondary defects in a 500g sample.
The Supremo coffee bean classification signifies that the green coffee has a screen size of 17. That means the beans have passed through a sifter with holes that are 18/64 inch wide. Larger-sized beans are often correlated with higher quality, although screen size is not the only indicator of coffee quality.
