Colombia, Franco Huelgos Coffee Beans

Franco Huelgos bio: 

At 27 Franco Huelgos, has dedicated his life to coffee, working alongside his father from a young age. While in university, he applied for an entrepreneurship funding program that helped him start his dream of cultivating different coffee varieties. At 19, he received support and planted 19,000 Bourbon Rosado trees on his farm, Oasis. After two years, they harvested their first lots, working closely with TerraCoffee to improve infrastructure and processes. The farm has always been a family venture, and Franco learned the importance of identifying defects, tasting the coffee, and refining processes. Now married, he manages the farm while his father oversees another lot with his brother. His initial goal was to reach break-even after a significant investment. With everything more organized, his focus is on enhancing the production plant and developing high-quality coffee profiles. 

This pink bourbon varietal is a double fermentation where the first phase lasts 36 hours to stabilize and regulate temperatures, followed by a second phase of 100 hours in closed tanks with water after depulping. Once the coffee is washed it is dried on raised drying beds. The quality in processing this coffee really highlights the coffee’s clean complexity. Bright lemonade acidity with a candy cherry sweetness.