Colombia Tolima Planadas, 2008 Roaster's Guild Coffee of the Year
Brewing with the Chemex
We received our shipment of coffees about a week ago from Atlas. We are very excited about some new coffees in this delivery! Newbies include a wonderful Brazil from the San Antonio Estate, our first Papua New Guinea, a second bag of Mt. Meru Peaberry from Tanzania, and our first ever vacuum-sealed (because its stinkin awesome) micro-lot coffee, the 2008 Roaster’s Guild Coffee of the Year, from a small village named Planadas in the Tolima region of Colombia. This amazing coffee is available in a limited edition batch of about 25 bags, so get yours while you can! Tasting notes and info is available here. Coffees from the southern Tolima region are typically grown at a higher altitude than other Colombia coffees due to its proximity to Nevado del Huila, a snow-capped volcano, The nutirient-rich volcanic soil yields coffees with a bright pleasing acidity and excellent body.
We brewed up a small batch with the Chemex this morning and let me tell you, believe the hype. This coffee is awesome. Smooth, sweet, loads of clean spice and fruit, pleasing acidity, and very well-balanced. It was so scrumptious, it made it a little hard to hand out samples to anyone… OK I’m joking, it wasn’t hard at all, everybody should have coffee like this!
