About This Coffee
Yesid Castañeda is constantly learning new skills and participates in as many training sessions as he can. He even invites his neighbors to observe his experimental processing techniques and learn together.
Harvest & Post-Harvest
Yesid selectively handpicks cherry and lays it to sundry. He rakes cherry frequently to ensure even drying. Yesid is building new parabolic dryers to improve his drying.
Coffee in Colombia
Colombia has been producing and exporting coffee renowned for their full body, bright acidity and rich aftertaste, since the early 19th century.
Colombia boasts a wide range of climates and geographic conditions that produce their own unique flavors in coffee. This also means that harvest times can vary quite a bit. In fact, between all its different regions, Colombia produces fresh crop nearly all year round.
The increasing focus on the specialty industry is changing the way traders and farmers do business. It is becoming more common for farmers to isolate the highest quality beans in their lots to market separately. These higher-quality lots are often sold under specific brands or stories.
Besides its wide variety of cup profiles, Colombia has quickly expanded its certification options over the past 10 years. The most common certifications available are Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance and Organic.