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Roast Level: Light
Type: Single-Origin
Origin: Ecuador , Africa
Region: Nanegal, Pichincha
Farm / Producer: Finca La Carolina
Altitude: 1375m asl
Cultivar: Sidra
Process: Washed
Medium roasted with butterscotch sweetness, golden raisins and roasted almond through a juicy, full bodied cup. Notes of mandarin citrus and brown spice on the finish.
Hybrid Brewer (Switch/Clever)
Dose: 24g
Water: 420g
Water temp: 93°C
Target time: 3:00–3:30
Pours: 1 (pre-infusion 120g) + 2 (drawdown 2 x 150g)
Hybrid brewing improves pre-infusion and extraction, making the hybrid brewer one of the most consistent ways to get a great cup at home. The results are reliably full-bodied and sweet.

More about Grinding and other useful brewing information here
Ecuador is almost certainly one of the coffee growing countries to have most radically changed preconceptions of coffee quality over the last decade. This has been driven by a combination of varied and often exceptional terroir, unique Arabica cultivars and forward thinking, quality minded producers.
Finca La Carolina like many farms in the province of Pichincha, is medium altitude but a unique microclimate helps slow the fruit development during ripening. Guillermo Lomas runs La Carolina and grows several cultivars, all for quality rather than volume. He has around half of his ten hectare farm growing coffee and this year we have bought two lots a Sidra and a Sidra from him.
Creamy and rounded with roasted almond and caramel forming the foundational base. The light roast brings a sweet toastiness that complements the almond. This leads onto dried fruit, brown spice and fresh pomelo. This citrus lifts the sweetness and adds structure to the coffee. The finish is toffee like with the brown spice returning, adding depth and complexity as it cools.
This Sidra lot is washed process. The cherries are picked ripe, floated and sorted to take out anything underripe or damaged, then depulped on the farm. From there the coffee is dry fermented, left in tanks to break down the mucilage without water, before being washed clean through the channels and graded.
The drying is where Guillermo’s recent work shows: slow drying on raised beds, the parchment turned regularly so it dries evenly, the beds kept covered from the rain.
The result is the rounder, sweeter counterpart to the Typica Mejorada from the same farm. This time a light roast brings out roasted almond, dried fruit and brown spice over a creamy body
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