Royal Gem Decaf Colombia Rainbow EA Natural Process 50 Lb – 29822 – SPOT RCWHSE

Price $287.50 per box

Box Weight 50 lbs

Position Spot

Boxes 28

Warehouses Oakland

Flavor Profile Fudge, graham cracker, clean, sweet, balanced

About this coffee

Grower

Producers from Colombia

Altitude

1500 – 1800 masl

Variety

Caturra, Castillo, and Colombia

Soil

Volcanic loam

Region

Coffee communities in Colombia

Process

Fully washed and mechanically dried

Harvest

May - September

Certification

Conventional

Coffee Background

It’s not often when an export partner offers a decaffeinated coffee with the same enthusiasm given to other lots. Well here is one from Azahar Coffee, sourcing company and exporter, originally began as a specialty roaster and coffee boutique in Bogotá serving Colombia’s top quality microlots to a developing local consumer base. From this niche, Azahar made international connections for their farmer contacts, and started exporting green coffee with individual farm traceability and ambitious price transparency. Azahar now partners with a network of Colombian growers who understand the specialty market potential, and markets their coffee directly to buyers internationally on a quality-based pricing scale. The net effect of the intervention is often significantly more money than a farm could receive without the added exposure and marketing. So taking the sum of all of these micro-lot parts to create a decaffeinated blend naturally had to be called the Rainbow Blend.  While traceability to a single farm or origin is not the focus here, the Azahar way of doing business is the origin of this blend.  Azahar was also intentional about blending coffee from similar elevations and the same traditional washed processing from producers who use the same careful and consistent protocols for sorting cherries, depulping, fermenting, washing and gently drying coffee. Azahar decaffeinated the coffee using a process called Descafecol, which is a solvent based process where caffeine is removed from the coffee beans using a solvent called ethyl acetate (a natural extract distilled from sugar cane, blackberries, beets or sometimes grapes). The coffee seeds are steamed to open the pores and then rinsed in ethyl acetate repeatedly to remove the caffeine.