Colombia Peñas Blancas Mill Java Natural 2025 Light Roast. Cup Profile Strawberry Twizzlers • Raspberry • Winey Red Fruits • Cranberry A highly expressive and complex cup that commands attention from first sip to final linger. This coffee carries an infinite finish that evolves as it cools. This is a 88.5 scoring coffee at origin. This is an intense coffee for the person that likes big flavors. Tasting Notes Hot: Loud and candy-like, with floral jasmine and perfumey aromatics leading into cherry, hibiscus, and cranberry tang. Cooling: Softens into a more approachable, palatable red-fruit medley of strawberry, raspberry, and star fruit, layered with plum and winey undertones. Texture: Richly coating and sugary, with a sweet, wine-like complexity that builds and lingers endlessly. Overall Impression A showcase natural Java that’s both intense and graceful—with sharp florals, bold candy sweetness, and a kaleidoscope of red and tropical fruits. This is a coffee for those who crave expressive, high-flavor complexity that refuses to fade. Peñas Blancas Coffee Processing Center Nestor Lasso and Jhoan Vergara, two of Colombia’s visionary coffee producers, have joined forces to lead the Peñas Blancas Coffee Processing Center in Acevedo, Huila. This centralized processing hub allows smallholders to access world-class processing techniques and deliver consistently high-quality coffee to an international market. Peñas Blancas is driven by community and built on the pillars of collaboration, education, and sustainability. Producers, agronomists, and industry professionals come together to share knowledge via training programs and workshops on best practices so that many of the families in Acevedo who rely on coffee as their primary income can upskill and directly improve their livelihoods. Under the helm of Nestor Lasso’s expertise in experimental processing and Jhoan Vergara’s experience in farm management, Peñas Blancas empowers producers who previously faced barriers in accessibility, quality control, and market opportunities with centralized and supervised facilities. What Is The Java Coffee? The Java variety has a long history with roots in Ethiopia and a travel history through Indonesia, Cameroon, and Costa Rica before spreading through Central America. It shares genetic markers with Abysinia, an Ethiopian landrace, but exhibits higher tolerance of coffee leaf rust and coffee berry disease. With such a high cup quality potential, Java is renowned for its complex flavor profile with vibrant fruit notes and aromatic floral characteristics. Resting Recommendation: Its ok to dive in early! but find that 2 weeks for pour-over is best · 4 weeks for espresso Roast Level: Light · ~10.9% weight loss · Whole Bean color 78 Ground color 129 (Lebrew) We drop this around 35 seconds after first crack. These are a bit lighter than sey on average.
