Mexico Sakubel - Filter

Mexico Sakubel - Filter

 

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• Producers + Mill:

Sakubel is a washed Mexican coffee from the highlands of Chiapas, produced by Indigenous Tseltal farming communities using traditional shade grown farming methods passed down through generations.

Carefully hand picked and slow dried in the cool mountain air of Los Altos de Chiapas, Sakubel is part of a newer wave of traceable Mexican specialty coffee that focuses on quality, community, and expressing the unique growing conditions of the region.

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• Varieties:

Typica (also Tipica) forms the genetic backbone of much of specialty coffee today. The first coffee plantations grown in America and Asia were of the Typica variety and many of the most widely cultivated C. arabica crops today are descended directly from the plant.

In general, Typica is very similar in appearance to the Bourbon plant (of which it is a very close relative) although it has fewer secondary branches and the leaves are normally smaller than those of Bourbon. It is usually identifiable by its bronze leaf tips. The plants are tall (3.5 – 4m) and the berries have an elongated, oval shape.

Even though Typica has a relatively low yield it is known to produce coffee with high cup quality. It is, however, very susceptible to diseases and is becoming increasingly less common for this reason. (Info source: Mercanta)

Bourbon coffee variety dates back to the 1700s when French missionaries first introduced it on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean. The island is called Réunion today and the missionaries moved on to Latin America in the middle of the 1800s. It was first grown in Brazil around 1860 and cultivation spread from there throughout Latin America. Because the standard Bourbon variety is susceptible to coffee leaf rust, it does best at higher altitudes at or above 1,800 meters where leaf rust is less likely to occur. Bourbon produces a tall coffee plant, excellent coffee, and medium to low production. It much of Latin America, basic Bourbon has been replaced by offshoots such as Caturra, Catuai, and Mundo Novo.

But around Huila Colombia in the Andes Mountains, growers still specialize in growing Bourbon coffee and a cross-bred variety, pink Bourbon.Pink Bourbon gets its name from the fact that the ripe berries are pink instead of red. Coffee farmers around Huila, Colombia produce the variety by cross-breeding yellow and red Bourbon. It has greater resistance to leaf rust than either the yellow or red variety.

Caturra. This variety originates from Minas Gerais in Brazil. It was a natural mutation of Red Bourbon, Caturra is favoured as it is a high yielding plant (more cherries per tree) and is more resistant to plant diseases than that of Bourbon.

 

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• Process:

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• Region: Los Altos de Chiapas, Chiapas
• Producer: Small Holder Producers
• Farm: Sakubel Mill
• Importer: Ensamble
• Price (green ex Shipping): £10.90 p kg

• Variety: Bourbon, Typica, Caturra
• Process: Washed Process
• Altitude: 1000-2000masl
• Amount Bought: 60kg
• Tasting: Fruity, refined, clean, high sweetness, balanced
• Flavours like: Lemon Meringue, bakers chocolate, caramel