Pink Bourbon Coffee El Vergel
$23.00 – $133.00
We taste Orange, Toasted Marshmallow, Cherry, & Hazelnut. This fan favorite is smooth, rich, and perfect with a big breakfast. It’s a bright, classic cup.
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What’s Pink about this Pink Bourbon Coffee?
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A coffee bean starts out as a seed inside a colorful cherry on a tree. Bourbon Rosado, the pink bourbon variety, is named for the rosy pink, “rosado”, color of the cherries the tree produces.
The French were the first to plant heirloom typicas stolen from Ethiopia and Yemen on an island off the coast of Madagascar known at the time as the Bourbon Islands. These coffee plants that self pollinate most of the time came together and created the interspecific hybrid we call Bourbon.
Colombia pink bourbon coffee came about when farmers began to notice a mutation hundreds of years later in coffee that had been transplanted in Colombia.
Instead of red, orange, or yellow bourbon cherries on these trees, they were a rosy color! This was a hybrid of yellow and red bourbon. Most importantly, farmers took time to separate and individually cultivate plants that made this unique fruit. We are so glad they did!
When you think of things that are both pink and delicious, plenty of options come to mind. Pink champagne and lemonade. Starburst and cotton candy. Pink lady apples and grapefruits. Even pink peppercorns and maybe pink salt in your taffy. And now, you can add pink coffee to the list!
How does it taste?
This vibrant bean possesses a bright, smooth tropical acidity and a dark honey sweetness. We taste cherries, dried apricots, orange, cacao nibs, and hazelnut. Pour overs made a dense cup of coffee that changed drastically when a little “bypass” water was added. We taste more blueberry, marjoram, and lemon when we use this technique.
Consequently, it has a little something for everyone no matter how you brew it. We even love this bean brewed in a plain old Mr. Coffee machine.
However, if your coffee order tends to include a request for a bold, sturdy brew, brighter pour-overs or a balanced and complex single-origin Colombia coffee—then, you may just fall in love with this impeccably structured cup. In conclusion, there are many reasons it is a huge favorite on our site and we are always excited to have it in season.
Discover El Vergel Estate
Nestled in the heart of Fresno, Tolima, Colombia, El Vergel Estate is managed by the Bayter Family. In 1995, they started their farm together focusing mostly on avocados. After the price of avocados plummeted in 2006, they made the big decision to start growing coffee. Initially they grew traditional Colombian varietals like catimore and caturra. Under the tutelage of coffee doyen, Miguel Jimenez, Elías and Shady Bayter began planting specialty varietals like Gesha and Pink Bourbon.
Bourbon coffee, available in stunning colors like red, yellow, orange, and pink, is celebrated for its sweetness. Once the most awarded variety in coffee competitions, it now offers great value as it has been surpassed in fame by some of the pricier varieties like Gesha, Sudan Rume, and Wush Wush.
Fast forward to 2016. Elias and Shady along with their business partner, Martha Montenegro, dedicate their time to honing their processing methods in order to innovate and highlight the quality of their coffee even more than before. It was then they began experimenting with anaerobic fermentation. They also created a processing method that incorporates koji into their fermentations! A wild reinventing of an ancient art.
Experience the rich flavors and dedication of El Vergel Coffee Estate —where passion meets tradition in every cup.
Processing this Pink Bourbon Coffee
Molecular examinations of this varietal have found it to contain higher volumes of glucose than most coffees. This is believed to impart a sweeter cup, a silky body, and a rich mouthfeel. It also makes it a prime candidate for this highly technical processing method.
- Firstly, the ripest cherries are selected, hand-picked, and sorted for quality.
- Secondly, the whole cherry goes through a brief fermentation for 36 hours in grain-pro bags
- Thirdly, still encased in mucilage, undergoes a 120-hour fermentation phase in hermetic tanks placed under shade.
- Fourthly, drying is carried out using a mechanical drying method over 72 hours. This precise and consistent approach ensures the beans achieve the optimal moisture level.
About this Terroir
The Nevado Del Huila volcano, the highest in Colombia, is the tripoint of Cuaca, Huila, and Tolima. Likewise, it’s the highest peak in the Colombian Andes. This is a broad, fertile landscape full of small family-owned farms and high elevation micro-climates. Here is a place where quality comes from patience and attentive old methods like hand-cranked depulping and sorting.
Colombian coffee is a product coffee drinkers all over the world are familiar with because of its notorious full body and cupping notes that include citrus and chocolate.
As a result, Tolima coffee farms are some of the top producers in the country with an output of millions of kilos of coffee annually. Since 2008, Tolima and Huila have produced more coffee than traditional coffee growing regions Antioquia and the Central Valley. It is also one of the first regions to embrace specialty coffees.
In addition, check out our hops infused Caturra from Sebastián Ramirez via El Placer. More exciting coffees from Colombia!
