Panama
Hacienda La Esmeralda, El Velo Geisha Lot 29-60-625
100g
Cup Notes: Jasmine, Blackberry, Lemongrass, Orange, White Rose, Hibiscus
This coffee is a mix of high performing Geisha natural microlots from Hacienda La Esmeralda’s El Velo Farm. It displays a mix of florals, fruitiness, and spices. Natural processing was carefully done, making for mild fruit penetration. The result is a very sweet, balanced, elegant coffee that is both powerful and delicate all at once.
Suggested for espresso and filter
when we roast
We freshly roast to order all coffees on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (excluding national holidays), and ship the same day! Cut-off time is 11:59pm (UTC+1) of the day before the roast day. *We only ship whole beans*
Details
- Series
- Premium Rarities
- Producer
- Peterson Family
- Country
- Panama
- Terroir
- Boquete
- Altitude
- 1750 masl
- Process
- Classic Natural - Raised Beds
- Arabica cultivar
- Geisha
- Picked in
- Jan. 2024 - Mar. 2024
- Arrived in
- September 2024
- Shipped in
- Box + Vacuum pack
- Roast profile by
- Rubens Gardelli
- Roasted on
- Customised solid-drum roaster
Suggested brewing recipe
To help you make the best out of your coffee, Rubens has crafted recipes for brewing this particular lot in filter.
There are two recipes: one for conical brewer (think v60) and one for flat-bottom brewer (think Kalita), however you can surely brew our coffees with any other brewing device, such as immersion brewers.
Please remember that these recipes are intended as starting points and may require further adjustments if the equipment you use is not identical to the one in the recipe; the characteristics of water used can also make a big difference in brewing.
Finally, the recipes suited specifically to Rubens’ roasting style, hence we do not guarantee that they will work as a universal reference.
There are two recipes: one for conical brewer (think v60) and one for flat-bottom brewer (think Kalita), however you can surely brew our coffees with any other brewing device, such as immersion brewers.
Please remember that these recipes are intended as starting points and may require further adjustments if the equipment you use is not identical to the one in the recipe; the characteristics of water used can also make a big difference in brewing.
Finally, the recipes suited specifically to Rubens’ roasting style, hence we do not guarantee that they will work as a universal reference.
Have fun brewing!
V60 STYLE
- Coffee:
- 17g
- Grind:
- Comandante 18 clicks (medium)
- Water:
- 250g (40 tds) at 90°C
- Filter model:
- Cafec Abaca+
- Time:
- 2:40
- Brew strenght:
- 1,30 tds
FLATBED
- Coffee:
- 17g
- Grind:
- Comandante 16 clicks (medium)
- Water:
- 250g (40 tds) at 90°C
- Filter model:
- Stagg [X], Fellow
- Time:
- 2:35
- Brew strenght:
- 1,34 tds
STORY BEHIND
Hacienda La Esmeralda is the epicenter of the rediscovery of the Geisha variety and the subsequent fascination the Specialty Coffee industry has had with the variety. In 2004, the Peterson family decided to separate lots based on their location on the farm, and kept them separated throughout processing. By doing so, the Petersons were able to isolate the cup profile of the Geisha variety, with the juicy acidity and multi-layered aromatics that Geisha has to offer. While it is common practice today, this decision to separate lots was progressive and experimental at the time.
Due to the high premium these coffees garner during auctions, Hacienda La Esmeralda is able to pay its harvesters three times the typical wage, ensuring a good standard of living as well as the highest quality work.
By carefully dividing each lot as it is picked, specific clusters of trees are targeted during the harvest, building unique microlots for the most quality-conscious buyers. La Esmeralda's industry-leading environmental sustainability practices and support for employees and their families have made us proud to partner with the Peterson family for many years.
El Velo is one of the newest of Hacienda La Esmeralda’s farms, purchased in 2012. This 50-hectare farm is the only one where the flat landscape allows a more uniform pattern of cultivation in rows. The farm is planted with Geisha and Catuai varieties, as well as with smaller lots of exotic varieties like Laurina, Pacamara and SL-34. Additionally, there are some 400+ other accessions, which are part of Esmeralda’s research initiatives and which were obtained from CATIE.
The farm is planted from 1,650 to 1,900 masl, although the nature reserve continues up the mountain all the way to 2,900 masl, and it is home to the famous Quetzal and other endangered birds.
THE VARIETY
Rare, exclusive and fetching a heavy price tag, Geisha is often associated with coffees from Panama, while, in fact, the cultivation of the Geisha varietal began there as late as in the 1960s.
Geisha is an original variety of coffee that was discovered in the 1930s in the mountains around the Southwestern town of Geisha, Ethiopia. Geisha trees grow tall and can be distinguished by their beautiful elongated leaves. The quality of this coffee can be drastically improved when grown at extremely high elevation.
The Geisha revolution brought about an intense search for Geisha among coffee buyers and a primal pilgrimage to Ethiopia to find the source of that flavour. The roads those buyers travelled brought them to a wood in far western Ethiopia near a small town called Geisha in the forests where coffee was born and still grows wild.
Geisha 1931 comes from this place.
Its name reflects the place and year it was collected by scientists who fanned out on a research expedition in Ethiopia to catalogue its coffee varieties.
THE FERMENTATION PROCESS
During drying, a natural fermentation process occurs.
Coffee enzymes experience a fermentation produced by the yeast and bacteria that breaks down the sugars in the mucilage.
