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India | Karnataka | Washed
£13.75 – £44.00£11.00/250g
Available in:Grind Type
Coffee Type:Single Origin
Process:Co-Ferment,Washed
Pricing & Formats
| Format | Price | /250g |
|---|---|---|
| 250g | £13.75 | £13.75 |
| 500g | £24.00 | £12.00 |
| 1kg Best | £44.00 | £11.00 |
About this Product
INDIA KARNATAKA WASHED
- Origin: India
- Region: Karnataka, Chikmagalur, Aldur
- Altitude: 1200 MASL
- Farm: Kerehaklu (kay-ray-huck-loo)
- Farmer: Ajoy and Pranoy Thipaiah
- Variety: Selection 6
- Process: Sequentially fermented washed using a coffee blossom starter culture.
Listen here to the sounds of Kerehaklu whilst enjoying this coffee.
A typical Kerehaklu lot is processed as follows:
- Freshly harvested cherry is floated the same day, it’s picked, then placed in open-air fermentation tanks from approximately 6:00pm to 9:00am the following morning.
- After this overnight fermentation in cherry, the coffee is pulped and transferred to lidded plastic barrels containing fresh water and a measured amount of the previously mentioned starter culture. The coffee is stirred every few hours to introduce oxygen and ensure a uniform fermentation. After 35–37 hours, it is mechanically washed and then moved to drying.
- Drying begins under heavy shade for the first two days, after which the coffee is transferred to a poly-house for continued drying.
One detail that makes this lot unique: it was produced using a starter culture that Pranoy developed from coffee blossoms.
To be clear, this is not a co-ferment in the sense that term has come to mean in coffee processing. Instead, Pranoy used coffee blossom to cultivate a starter culture – essentially capturing the native microbes present on the flowers, then used that culture to inoculate the fermentation.
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