Neighbors & crops
ENRIQUE SARMIENTO
EL SENADO
Village: Anatoli, Cundinamarca
Altitude: 1600 M.A.S.L
Variety: Castillo
The Profile
He has been producing Coffee for 60 years, and at his 73 years old is very grateful for everything the coffee has given to him and his family. His farm, El Senado is a 2-hectare farm located in the Anatoli Village in the municipality of La Mesa.
He has two professional sons who work in the city and do not have the time to support Jose on the farm. Jose pays to a laborer for those responsibilities he can´t do due to his age. He also has some banana crops on his farm and grows grass for his livestock that he commercializes in the market.
Before joining the Neighbors & Crops program Jose used to sell his coffee to Coffee National federation. For him, it was so difficult to pick the cherries and process them due to a lack of time and health problems related to his age.
With Neighbors & Crops program we can support him with the infrastructure and labor needed to process his coffee. Doing so, he can get better prices, focus on taking care of his health and have plenty of time to share with his family.
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Proccesing Methods
Lactic
This kind of fermentation is classified as ‘Anaerobic’ as oxygen has minimal interaction with the cherry. Once the cherries arrive at the mill, they are hand sorted and placed in sealed tanks. With no oxygen involved, bacteria feed on carbohydrates present in the mucilage favoring a higher concentration of Lactic Acid, creating a unique profile of the resulting cup.
Honey
The Honey Process begins with a pre-fermentation stage of 45 hours at the wet mill. From here the cherries will start the de-pulping stage, passing through three stages of quality control before removing a percentage of the skin. While the drying stage, coffee will be placed in African-style raised beds for over 15 days. Due to the levels of sugar and moisture, the first days will be crucial to avoid microbial activity prolongation. Finally parchment coffee will pass through the mechanical drying machines to end up the drying process.
Mixed
This method involves a combination of stages found in lactic and acetic processing methods. First, all hand-sorted cherries will go through a short pre-fermentation step. Similar to lactic processing, the cherries are placed in airtight fermentation tanks with limited oxygen. Once removed from the tanks, we pass them through three levels of quality control before having the skin removed by a pulper machine. From there, we leave the beans resting in the fermentation tanks to undergo an acetic fermentation, agitating them from time to time. Once the process is completed, the beans are transferred to African-style raised beds to begin the drying phase.
Our Mixed Fermentation Processing produces a very balanced cup profile with medium to heavy body.
Bio-Innovation
Through the Bioinnovation process, La Palma & El Tucán honors the main principles of organic farming. They first capture and reproduce microorganisms found in their farm’s beautiful forests, to create their own fermentation substrate. Then, they mix this substrate with perfectly ripen geisha cherries, in a clay pot for 100 hours. This combination allows them to create a sustainable closed cycle. After the fermentation, they remove the leftovers and reuse them as compost.
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