EXP009: PASSIONFRUIT

WHY THIS COFFEE?

This is our ninth drop. And it's our favorite so far. Jairo Arcila, a Colombian coffee producer, processed this coffee with passionfruit and wine yeast to bring out extraordinary fruit flavors. The coffee is a Castillo variety (see here for more information) grown at the Santa Monica farm in Quindio, Colombia.

This coffee from Jairo Arcila was our favorite from sampling dozens of coffees early in 2025. We absolutely love this coffee and think you will too. It has that perfect blend of what advanced processing can offer to a coffee by elevating the natural characteristics of the bean without imparting too much funkiness. 

COFFEE DETAILS

Producer: Jairo Arcila

Location: Quindío, Colombia from the Santa Monica farm

Varietal: Castillo

Processing: Washed passionfruit wine yeast fermentation

Green cost: $13.55/lb

Percentage paid to producers: 90%

BREW GUIDE

How long to rest: You should wait three weeks for EXP009 to degas and begin its peak.

We taste: Sweet passionfruit, almost like lychee, without the overwhelming presence of co-fermented funkiness because of the washed processing; a raspberry tartness and acidity.