Honduras Finca Cascaritas Golden Yeast Espresso
Honduras Finca Cascaritas Golden Yeast Espresso
It occurred to me that when we have an “experimental process” like this inoculated golden yeast, we always profile them as a filter or one roast. We have two coffees going live for espresso in the next week, that are more complex in aromatics than in flavour. This combination lends itself to becoming an interesting, fun espresso.
Top Trumps
Country: Honduras
Farm: Finca Cascaritas
Grower: Delmy Hernández.
Region: Mercedes
Process: Honey process, Golden Yeast
Varietal: Catuai
Drying: Raised beds for 24 days.
Altitude: 1250 MASL
Farm size: 3.5 Hectare
Roast: Espresso
Cup Potential 🥣
|Aromatics: Caramel, sugary sweetness| Body: Medium | Acidity: Soft, citrus |
Espresso Recipe:
Ideal brew temp: 94-95C.
Milk-based:17-18g of coffee into 34-36g of espresso 27+ seconds
Espresso: 17-18g into 45-50g of espresso in 27+seconds.
9oz milk-based drink: Defined caramel, lactic sugars and chocolate.
6oz milk-based: Caramel, dark chocolate, citrus.
Espresso. Once again the long shots come up trumps into the 40-50g region.
Caramel and grapefruit were our defining flavours in espresso.
Farm Stuff
Delmy Hernández is the mum of poster boy Hidardo Hernandez, (whose coffee you will also find on our site) director of Cafesmo, the cooperative of progressive coffee producers in Ocotopeque, Honduras. Delmy’s life has been all things coffee. Following on from her late husband, she is very much part of pushing the boundaries of where great coffee can go.
This lot is tiny and experimental. This is one of our favourite yeasts for its intensity of fragrance. This batch is made with the catuai variety starting the pulping process. We place it in barrels with the yeast: we leave the coffee for 24 hours aerobic and 48 hours anaerobic. Finally, we finish the process by drying the coffee with the mucilage on to maintain the sugars and body in the coffee. Then the coffee is dried on African (raised beds) for 24 days.
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