Colombian coffee flavor characteristics of giant round beans in Bolton Manor, Colombia

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El Boton estate (Bolton Manor) is located in the mountains of La Carmina in the southwest of Antioquia Province, Colombia. This area is more northwest of Colombia and belongs to the province near the Pacific Ocean.

If you remember, in 2004, Osher bought elephant beans from Bolton Manor. This time, it was even more interesting. She bought round beans from her rarer elephant beans, such as beans, which produced less, while round beans like beans (peaberry) were even rarer. Please take a look at the picture below. Round beans like beans look quite big. Compared with other kinds of peaberry, they look like giant babies.

Since 1930, the Herran family. The production of elephant beans (Maragogipe) began in this manor, and even though the production of other new varieties can bring more production than elephant beans, the Herran family still insists on producing elephant beans to this day, which results in them harvesting only 600bags of elephant beans a year (70kg each). In coffee estates, it is rare to insist on ∼.

Bolton Manor is 4430 feet above sea level, has rich fertile soil of La Carmina, and has a low density of coffee trees. At the same time, all the trees are shaded and planted with ∼.

The harvest season of brown coffee begins in October, and because only ripe red fruits are harvested, the harvest period lasts until January of the following year. Bolton Manor insists on harvesting only ripe fruits and washing on the same day, and uses less water-consuming environmental treatment for peeling, washing and fermentation. The residue from the treatment process is used as fertilizer for fertilizing coffee trees; the drying method after fermentation is dried by machine, and the raw beans with shells are dried to 12% water content at a low temperature, and then transferred to Silo to store and wait for shelling and grading.

After shelling, the women of the manor are responsible for the selection of raw beans after shelling, and remove the missing objects and screen out the best raw beans. This part of the complete manual operation does not use a machine; in fact, elephant beans are already larger than ordinary flat beans. Complete manual screening is laborious, but it actually makes sense, and the output of this manor is already very small.

The basic information of this batch of Bolton Manor giant round beans is as follows

Country: Colombia: La Carmina in the mountains of southwestern Antioquia province

Manor: EL BOTON Variety: Maragogipe Grade: Peaberry

Treatment: washing and fermentation, machine drying in the later stage

The cup test results are as follows:

Dry fragrance: aroma rising, with a little floral fragrance, herbage fragrance, flower essential oil

Wet fragrance: caramel, citrus acid

Sipping flavor: sticky oil, citrus plum acid and tropical fruit ripe sweet, sweet and sour, changeable and persistent aftertaste.