Juicy Pants - Colombia

Roast Profile | Light

Notes of | Mango, Jelly Beans, Hibiscus

Variety | Geisha

Process | Natural

Altitude | 1700 MASL

Yoiner farms in El Portal, Palestina, on land his grandfather settled in 1949 after being displaced south from Cundinamarca, carrying Typica seeds that became the foundation of 75 years of multi-generational coffee farming. 

The migration pattern that carried Yoiner's grandfather from Cundinamarca to Palestina was replicated across thousands of families, transforming Huila from a frontier region into Colombia's leading coffee-producing department. Displaced campesinos brought generations of coffee knowledge from established growing areas, adapting their expertise to Huila's volcanic soils and abundant water sources.

Palestina, officially founded in 1937 and situated at high elevation in the Macizo Colombiano, offered ideal conditions for the Typica and Bourbon varieties these families cultivated, and what was born from violence and forced migration ultimately built the small-holder coffee economy that now defines the region, with Huila now well known as a hotbed of speciality coffee production.

Yoiner grew up immersed in this coffee heritage but initially pursued a different path, training as an accountant and working for Banco Agrario, Colombia's agricultural bank responsible for providing producer credits. That position gave him an insider's view of how the financial system exploits small-holders, requiring producers to plant only FNC-endorsed varieties and methods to access credit, pushing them into unfavourable conditions that benefited the bank rather than farming families. He didn't like what he saw and left that life behind, and when his father passed away roughly six to eight years ago, Yoiner returned to Palestina to take over the family farm whilst his siblings remained outside the region with corporate careers. The family now functions as financial partners in the operation, providing capital whilst Yoiner manages production and delivers yields, a collective effort to keep the family land alive.

With the passing of the land to the second generation, the family divided the estate into smaller plots, each owned and managed by different family members, with the main processing and drying station situated at his aunt Marisela's house. Yoiner's family has deep connection to the community - his uncle Orlando served two terms as Mayor of Palestina around the turn of the millennium. As Marisela approached retirement, she transferred her Rosado plot to Yoiner, choosing instead to focus on community work and lower yield, high value varieties. We purchased Rosado from Yoiner this year, from the very same trees Marisela had cultivated, and his work demonstrates both respect for what came before and willingness to apply his own technical approach to processing and quality development.

*Our coffee is freshly roasted each Monday and Thursday. Orders are dispatched on Wednesday and Friday with Royal Mail Tracked 48. Please allow 2-3 business days for your order to arrive.