Columbia Huilan Coffee Bean-Vera Plateau St. Augustine Colombian Coffee Bean Story

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Colombia Coffee Basics and Flavor Description

Name: Saint Augustine, Colombia

(Colombia Huila Forest San Augustin）

Country: Colombia (Colombia)

Region: Huila, San Augustin

Producer: Coagustinos Production Association of Vera Province

Breed: Caturra,Colombia

Altitude: 1,900 meters on average

Level: Supreme

Treatment method: Traditional washing treatment

Harvest period: 30% from April to June

September to January 70%

Certification: N/A

Flavor description: lemon, caramel cream, nutty tones, toffee, thick sweet palate.

Introduction:

To the west of Colombia proper is the Andes, divided into three parts: the western, central and eastern mountains. The Cauca and Magdalena rivers flow along the Caribbean Sea to the lowland plains. Colombia, currently the world's second largest coffee producer, uses water to process Arabica beans. It is also one of the world's largest producers of fine coffee, traditionally deeply roasted with a strong and memorable flavor. Coffee was first introduced to Colombia in 1808 by a priest from the French Antilles via Venezuela. Today, the country is the third largest coffee producer after Brazil and Vietnam, producing 12 million bags of 60 kilograms per bag per year, compared with Brazil's 31 million bags per year. The status of coffee in Colombia can be seen in the following example: all vehicles entering the country must be sprayed to prevent inadvertent disease and damage to coffee trees.

The main producing areas are Huila(San Augustin), Nariño, Tolima, Popayan(Cauca), Valle de Cauca, Meta, Antioquia(Medellin), Magdelena(Sierra Nevada), Boyaca, Santander(Bucaramanga), etc. There are approximately 700 million recorded coffee trees in Colombia, 66 per cent of which are grown on modern plantations and the rest on small, traditionally managed farms. The main varieties include Catura, Colombia, Tipica, Bourbon, Maragogype and Tabi, operated by more than half a million farmers of all sizes in 590 municipalities and 14 major coffee-producing regions of Colombia. In total, 2 million Colombians depend on coffee cultivation for their livelihood and contribute 12.5 per cent of gross domestic product.

Huila Province is located in the west of Colombia. Coffee grows on the canyon slope formed by the junction of the western coastal mountains and the eastern mountains. San Augustino has the best quality because of the Los Naranjos River. The river bank scenery in this area is beautiful. There are large areas of flowers and plants that are habitats for butterflies and windbirds. This area is also the base camp for producing good coffee in Colombia. Many of the fine coffee beans produced by small farmers in this region are very characteristic of the region.

In recent years, with the emphasis on coffee quality and the requirements for fine coffee in the international market, micro-regional selections provided by small farmers from micro-production organizations are mainly used. Dozens of small farmers provide their unit harvest to be aggregated into a micro-batch for sale. Quality control will be better, and therefore there will be more opportunities to select many high-quality micro-production coffee through batch by batch cup testing.

This microbatch comes from the COOAGUSTINOS Production Association of Vera Province, which has about 800 small-scale coffee farmers with an average farm area of about 2 hectares. The harvest season of planting altitude rice is divided into winter and summer, 30% from April to June and 70% from September to January. Coffee Flavor Herbal Nanyang Spice Dark Chocolate Dark Berry Acid Orange Fruit Flavor Creamy acidity and thick taste, melon sweet taste Smooth, rose floral, clean fruit aroma, firm and balanced taste, good finish.

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