Washed Process

think:

milk chocolate

well balanced

red fruit

Region: San Ramon

Variety: Borbon, Caturra, Pache

Altitude: 1600-2200 MASL

Process: Washed Process

Importer: Oceans Imports and Ally coffee

Fair Trade Organic, Rainforest Alliance

This represents a coffee relationship that we have been cultivating for over 6 years now. We first learned about Uptown Roasters in NYC from one of our friends that spent 6 months of his time in the city in a humanitarian outreach. He shared contact info with us and after we called and chatted with one of the owners for awhile we decided to give their Peru a try. They sent us samples and it has been ongoing since then.

We soon learned that Paul was the guy we would deal with the most and that he spends most of his time in Peru and Columbia working with coffee farmers. This has had a bit of a novelty feeling when we put in a call to Peru and visit about what has been going on there on the farms and try to decide which producer will fit our needs for the upcoming year.

This makes for some very exciting possibilities that we hope to reach. These include talking with the producer about different processes like natural, honey and washed. We currently have two different processes side by side. This gives us the opportunity to showcase what major differences can be achieved just by one small change in one of the many steps of coffee production. We have a passion for this coffee and this country and want to offer it as our mainstay that we will always have on hand for our customers. Cheers!