Size: 12oz retail bag Taste notes: Baking Spices, Orange Blossom, Surprise!
Sensory: Shiny Citrus, Deep Cinnamon Waves, Nutmeg Splashes, No Way This is Decaf
Region: La Union, Nariño, Colombia
Grown by: 25 smallholder farmers in La Union Elevation 1800-1900 MASL
Varieties: Castillo + Colombia Processing: Washed + EA Sugarcane Decaf In Colombia, where sugarcane is abundant, the EA (Ethyl Acetate) decaffeination process has become so mainstream that it’s relatively safe to assume that any Decaf Colombia from a specialty roaster will be pretty darn decent, at the very least. Shared Source, one of our importing partners (though not the one who provided this particular coffee for us), sums the process up like so: “sugarcane molasses is fermented to create ethanol, and then mixed with acetic acid to create Ethyl Acetate. The coffee is steamed [to] open the pores and allow for the extraction of caffeine molecules. From there, it’s placed into an ethyl acetate solution where it bonds to the salts of chlorogeni.