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Tasting Like:  Sweet, Clean, Green 7/11 Slushiee Finish, Mandarin Orange Slices, Finger Limes, Lychee, Lovely Acidity, A Brewers-Esque Profile focused on clean acidity and structured complexity 

Farm: Finca La Riviera
Producers: Julio Madrid
Variety: Pink Bourbon
Process: Extended Duel Anaerobic Fermentation, Natural
Origin:Risaralda, Colombia
Altitude: 2200masl

 When we were first starting Promethium, I knew we needed a handful of undisputedly great coffees to open with. I had the opportunity to snag a little extended fermentation Caturra. After dialing it in the roastery it was a bright blue raspberry kool-aid and blue slurpie tasting coffee and that coffee put us on the map. Heck a lot of you reading this are doing so because of that coffee. Now, a little older, and a lot better, we're back with another iteration of that coffee. Crazy fun, innovative and rewarding to all those curious enough to try. This time is a Pink Bourbon varietal from Julio Madrid who frequents our offerings regularly at this point. Nostalgic tasting, sweet, slushie like fun you cannot miss because if you do, you will. 

Free history lesson: 
From my research, producers and roasters assumed the Pink Bourbon was a natural hybrid between Red and Yellow Bourbon varieties, named for its distinctive salmon-pink cherries that ripen differently than traditional red coffee fruit. Makes sense okay. Except in 2023, Café Imports decided to do some deeper genetic testing and discovered that PB isn't related to Bourbon varieties in any way. It's actually a landrace, meaning it's a wild variety that grows naturally in Ethiopian forests, and somehow made its way to Colombia where it was mistakenly identified as a Bourbon mutation. The whole coffee world has been calling it the wrong name for nearly a decade, which is honestly pretty funny when you think about how seriously we take varietal accuracy in our industry. But the name has sort of stuck, and now we're all just going with it because "Ethiopian Landrace #47" doesn't have literally any marketing appeal whatsoever(should we change that?). Long story short is the naturally ethiopian varietal paired with Julio's magic births an absolutely bonkers slushie character that shouldn't exist in coffee but somehow does. It's forward thinking processing and historic dna lineage is nostalgic and wildly fun in our cups. The future is in the past I guess. 

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Recommended Music to accompany brewing: Royal Flush by Mac Miller
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