Decaf
Colombia
ASOMUJER – Origin Select
Timaná, Huila Washed 1400–2000 m Castillo, Caturra, Colombia Main crop: October–December · fly crop: June–August
This same green coffee
3 roasts, 3 different coffees
One sack, three profiles. What the roast changes is the balance of acidity, sweetness and body — the fruit doesn't disappear, it just steps back.
Decaf
Decaf
Taste all three — 3 × 100 g, 6 290 Ft
It's the fastest way to find out which roast is yours.
This coffee is grown by ASOMUJER, founded in 2007 by ten women in Timaná, Huila, looking for a better return on their own work. Today it is seventy-five women producers — among them single mothers and women displaced by conflict — and the association supports them from growing through to selling. The decaffeination uses ethyl acetate derived from sugarcane, while the coffee is still green. Malt, a mild vanilla, dried citrus: decaf, but not a compromise.
The producer
ASOMUJER — Asociación de Campesinas del Sur del Huila
An association of seventy-five women producers in Timaná, since 2007.
I went looking for this one because of my friends. A lot of them love coffee and cannot drink it — some have just become mothers, some simply do not get on with caffeine. I did not want decaf to mean they get a worse cup. It is decaffeinated with a sugar-cane process, which is one of the cleanest ways to do it environmentally — I read up on that before I chose — and it is grown by the ASOMUJER women's cooperative in Timaná. Caramel, malt, dried citrus. Not "decaf coffee". Coffee.
Bogotá
Timaná, Huila