Releasing August 31st - 10am EST
Limited Edition Experiment #2

Tasting Like: Lavender Brightness, Red Fruits, Lemongrass, Green Tea, Vibrant

(Note: you must allow extended rest for this coffee, our recommendation is 90 days minimum)

Farm: Campo Hermoso
Producer: Edwin Noreña
Variety: Sidra
Process: Carbonic Maceration, Washed
Origin: Quindío, Colombia
Altitude: 1580masl

Our highly requested second ever ULTRALIGHT experiment has arrived.
For the most daring enthusiasts, a new frontier of coffee awaits.

Edwin Noreña has long been my personal favorite producer, one I've gotten the pleasure to know personally. When we talk about how much the coffee industry has changed in the past ten years, Edwin is single handedly responsible for a sizable percent of it. One of Colombia's masters of innovation, if not the master, his coffees have been celebrated world-wide for years. Always selling out, we're honored to have claimed a sliver of one of his most in-demand lots, his Carbonic Macerated Sidra. However, simply roasting this coffee is not enough, it requires a level of precision and experimentation to reciprocate Edwin's experimental approach to processing this lot. Roasting it carefully, to a razor sharp ultralight profile we've been building pretty much since Promethium's launch felt more than fitting for this coffee.

Edwin operates Campo Hermoso as what he calls a "coffee research and development lab" - and once you understand his history, it becomes clear why. An agro-industrial engineer by trade with graduate-level studies in biotechnology, Edwin has spent over twenty years in coffee production, with the last ten focused entirely on specialty coffee experimentation. His approach to carbonic maceration processing signals technical mastery: whole cherries undergo primary fermentation for ninety-six hours in sealed, oxygen-free tanks where naturally occurring yeasts create complex flavor compounds without any external additives. The Sidra variety itself adds another layer of complexity - the mysterious cultivar, believed to be somehow genetically linked to Ethiopian heirloom varieties despite originating in Ecuador, produces beans that are longer and more pointed than your typical arabica, growing on distinctively thick-trunked trees that can reach four meters in height. Unlike many hybrids designed for disease resistance, Sidra was cultivated purely for its extraordinary cup quality, requiring high-altitude conditions and shade to develop its characteristic bright acidity, jasmine-like florals, and vibrant fruit notes that have made it a favorite among World Coffee Championship competitors.

A bit more about Quindío:
Quindío sits at the heart of Colombia's famous Coffee Triangle, positioned centrally between Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín on the central cordillera of the Andes divide. What makes this region particularly special for coffee cultivation is that even its lowest elevation points sit well over 1000 meters above sea level, with the entire department being almost entirely mountainous and home to countless coffee farms ranging from small family plots to ambitious experimental projects like Campo Hermoso. The volcanic soils, stable year-round climate, and protection from Pacific winds and humidity create an ideal microenvironment for developing the complex, vibrant characteristics that make coffees from this region so sought after. Edwin's twenty-five-hectare farm represents the cutting edge of what's possible in this terroir, combining traditional Colombian coffee wisdom with innovative processing techniques that push the boundaries of what coffee can taste like, and today you have the opportunity to be a student of it.
This is exactly the kind of forward-thinking approach that defines the coffee of tomorrow.

This is our second ever ultralight experiment, and an absolute lavender screamer - one of our founder's most beloved impressions for filter brews. This coffee requires advanced rest, ideally sixty to ninety days minimum. We recommend occasionally revisiting this coffee as it rests at differing points in time: our personal approach to ultra-lights is brewing at sixty, ninety, one hundred fifty days.

Recommended Music to accompany brewing: Graphic Nature by Deftones
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