In collaboration with our friends at Minga Coffee, we’re excited to offer you another fantastic limited edition to our lineup! The rare Chiroso variety from Fernando García is back in all its glory after a year, allowing us to enjoy a delicate cup bursting with juicy fruits like nectarines and papaya, complemented by a pleasant jasmine aroma.
About the Coffee:
Fernando moved from the department of Caqueta to Huila back in 2004 because of the armed conflict in his home region. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Colombia has the world’s second-highest population of internally displaced people, with an estimated 6.8 million Colombians displaced within its borders. This number reflects the extensive impact of the conflict on civilians over several decades. He chose El Pital where he has family, and quickly started planting crops: first with beans, then peaches, and later on coffee.
Fernando learned about crop diversification during a set of trainings held by his Diocese. Those trainings were part of a response and resistance to the many hydroelectric projects that the government together with foreign companies were planning to build in north Huila. Fernando was a social activist for many years and their resistance led to the abandon of various projects and the compensation for damages already incurred by the El Quimbo dam.
Because Fernando’s always looking at doing things differently, he planted unusual varietals like Chiroso, Tabi and Bourbon Manzano. Most coffee producers in the area have Colombia varietal. The coffee plantation is between 4 and 7 years old and now fully bearing its fruits with diverse cup profiles. He also is the only producer of peaches in the area which is why he chose this crop. A small watercourse runs down his farm so the forest around it is left untouched to protect this water part of a bigger river ecosystem.
Taste profile
How to understand the grid on the packaging?
We wanted to make it as easy as possible for you to choose your coffee, so we worked with the guys from Steezy Graphic Studio to come up with a “grid” – a simple grid where you can easily find the characteristics of each coffee.
The red dot next to the description of each coffee is placed exactly there, so that you can easily imagine how the coffee will taste.
Citrus - Chocolate
Here we’d like to give you an idea of how fruity the coffee will be. There’s a long way from citrus to chocolate, so imagine more in between:
citrus, berries, green apples, red apples, stone fruits, dried fruits, nuts, milk chocolate and dark chocolate 😉
Mild – wildWhat is mild coffee? We’d say it’s unpretentious. A coffee that you can just have every morning and not have to think too much about it. It’s just good.
