Coffee Spotlight: Colombia Las Palmas Tropical Splash
Today on the blog we’re spotlighting one of our current award-winning specialty coffees. If you’re a fan of co-fermented coffees, you have to try this one! It’s what tropical coffee dreams are made of!
Producer Brayan Alvear is a native to Huila, Colombia where he has spent is whole life around specialty coffee production. Now he leads the way in innovative co-fermenting techniques.
This is what the importer who works with Alvear has to say about Tropical Splash:
The innovative method behind The Tropical Splash begins with the careful selection of Pink Borbon cherries, which are then co-fermented with dehydrated coconut and coconut water. This fermentation occurs anaerobically in plastic tanks for 144 hours, allowing the tropical flavors to fully infuse into the beans.
After fermentation, the coffee is sun-dried for 30 days with lemon peel to impart a distinctive citric finish. During this drying phase, the coffee and lemon peel are combined in drying beds and subjected to both sun and mechanical drying methods, ensuring a consistent and thorough drying process.
Finally, the coffee undergoes a 45-day stabilization period in GrainPro bags before milling. This meticulous process results in a coffee with a unique flavor profile featuring citrus, coconut, lemonade, and a creamy texture with tropical fruits.
This Tropical Splash coffee is the perfect example of the amazing co-ferments that are coming from Las Palmas, and we were so excited to try it! Once we roasted it and cupped it, we knew we had something amazing in front of us. So we submitted it to Coffee Review for a review.
Coffee Review scored our Tropical Splash at a 92! Their blind assesment of the coffee is as follows:
Fruity-sweet, gently spice-toned. Fruit punch, green peppercorn, blackberry leaf, oak, hazelnut in aroma and cup. Briskly sweet acidity; velvety-smooth mouthfeel. Green peppercorn and fruit punch notes carry the quiet finish.
The bottom line?
A uniquely composed juxtaposition of sweet and spicy notes, with fruit punch at the top (remember Hi-C) and forestry oak at the bottom.
You can find their full review here along with a breakdown of how the score was totaled.
As you can imagine, we’re loving this coffee at BonLife, and it’s selling fast! Shop Tropical Splash and our other high-scoring coffees here before they’re gone.
