Colombian BCT Select

Description

A very tasty & fresh aggregate lot, new crop! Classic Colombian cup at a great price, a decent excelso screen (includes some smaller beans).

In Colombia the vast majority of coffee is cultivated, harvested and processed on small family owned farms. While these producers are their own architects, designing farm management and post-harvest solutions to fit their environment, they also need strong alliances to bring their coffee to the international market and earn fair prices. To support this system of small farm production, Colombia established the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia (FNC) to organize and support a complex network of larger regional coffee cooperatives.

These cooperatives provide producers with valuable logistical support like centralized warehouses to store dried parchment and dry mills where the coffee is prepared for export according to size. The Excelso grade is the designation for beans that will not pass through a screen opening below 14/64 of an inch. Excelso lots are often traceable to regions of Colombia, each with distinct harvest times, which provides for a constant supply of fresh Colombian Excelso throughout the calendar year.

Tasting Notes: 
Best at a medium to dark roast. A nice and rich classic Colombian cup. Fuller bodied, lower acidity with a wonderful almond/walnut nuttiness. A bit more smokey with semi-sweet chocolate tones at the fuller roast levels but the nuttiness will cut right through in the aftertaste. Sweeter edged traditional walnut/chocolate tones balanced with with a little crispness at the medium roast level.

Roasting Notes: 
Easy to roast; a nice medium to dark roasts are where these beans will shine. Roasts a little two toned being an aggregate production coffee, a couple pops into second crack is a great and easy roast point to achieve. Can work a little lighter or darker depending on personal taste. Medium to low chaff.