Colombia Tolima Desarrollo
Classic Profile | Medium roast
Tasting Notes: Milk Chocolate, Caramel, Toasted Almond
IT ALL STARTS AT THE COFFEE FARM
Known as El Desarrollo Café de Mujeres, this coffee was grown by the women producer-members of El Desarrollo Coffee Growers Association. The coffee is grown in the municipality of Gigante, in East-Central Huila (not Tolima, as we mistakenly named it!), between the West Andes and Matambo Hill along the Magdalena River.
Through the association, producers receive technical training and assistance. They also receive agricultural services, including a revolving fund for fertilization, coffee marketing, certification assistance and strategic commercial alliances with a range of export companies.
El Desarrollo also runs a café, called the Mithayu Coffee Shop. The café is a project aimed at the children of the members, wanting to give young people more opportunities with products processed from the raw materials that their own parents produce. This project has been running for two years, resulting in the training of more than ten young people so far.
TRACEABILITY
PRODUCER
Women producer-members of El Desarrollo Coffee Growers Association
MILL / WASHING STATION
On farms
PROCESSING
Washed
ALTITUDE
1300 - 1900 meters
DID YOU KNOW
Outside of Gigante there are numerous cacao plantations, making the town the “Cacao Capital of Colombia”.
PRICE TRANSPARENCY
$2.80
Price paid by Driftaway
$1.79
Free on Board price
$1.20
Farm Gate price
$2.14
Fair Trade price per pound
$1.94
Coffee C-Market price per pound
$0.05
Driftaway's World Coffee Research contribution per pound
This coffee travelled 2,648 miles to the Driftaway Coffee roastery in Queens.
Love the coffee? You can share your compliments & tasting observations with the farmers.
WHY DID WE SELECT THIS COFFEE?
With its creamy body and notes of chocolate, nuts and caramel, this coffee is a classic Classic profile! But we don't just go by taste - as much as possible, we search out coffees from farmers that may not have had equal market acess, like women and minority farmers. In fact, women make up 70% of the workforce of coffee production around the world, yet have systematically lower access to resources (such as land, credit and information) compared to men.
In this case, these 51 women are growing and processing such stellar coffee that it deserved to be separated from the main cooperative's lot and sold independently.
AVERAGE CUPPING SCORE
85.5
/100
85.5
SCAA Cupping Score
15 x 69 kg
Bags purchased
1 year
Length of producer relationship
100% (in 2023)
Transparent coffees purchased
HOW DID WE ROAST THIS COFFEE?
This coffee is being roasted by Ian T. from December 31 to January 24 in Brooklyn. We use the Loring Kestrel roaster for this profile. We have strict guidelines for each of the coffee profiles, and this roast has to pass the development time ratio test as measured in real-time by the roasting software, Cropster. Once it does, it is approved for production.
QUALITY CONTROL
We perform Quality Control via a process of coffee tasting called cupping on all of our production roasts once a week at our roastery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each cupping is conducted by James M. and Ian T. using standard equipment, and is logged by our Q-certified cupper Ian T. All coffees are evaluated on a scoring scale of 0 to 3.
- 3.0 = exceptional roast - exceeds expectations
- 2.5 = on par with profile - matches expectations
- 2.0 = good roast, but 1 or 2 elements could be improved - needs improvement
- 1.5 or lower = failed - do not ship
PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING
Less than 24 hours after roasting, we bag your coffee in our production facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Our production team is led by Anthony and Torie, and supported by a rotating cast of local artists, musicians and independent professionals.
AT YOUR HOME
Brew this coffee with your favorite home brewer and enjoy the taste of incredible coffee! Here are a few tips on how to make the best coffee on each brewer.
View other posts about how to make better coffee at home on our blog Coffeecademy.
