Costa Rica – Microlot – Aguilera Brothers Micromill – Finca Licho – Gesha – Honey – Green Unroasted

Taste: Strong orange, cranberry, and floral aromas pack quite an olfactory punch with this bean.  The full sweet mouthfeel highlights the tart citrus acidity. It smells as good as it tastes!

Roast: This bean roasted very quickly, so we tried it at a slightly lower temp, especially during the development phase.  Lengthening the time to first crack added to this beans natural sweetness.

About: The Aguilera Brothers are a set of Cup of Excellence–winning siblings who carry on their longtime family tradition by working together to plant, pick, and process coffees from their combined 60 hectares of farmland: Their father was one of the first to plant coffee in this area in the 1940s. The 12 Aguilera brothers and sisters divide the work among themselves, with two of the brothers, Felipe and Erasmo, overseeing most of the mill operation as well as the drying areas. There are about 20 varieties sprinkled throughout the family’s primary crop of Villa Sarchi, including Gesha and various different strains of the highly productive and disease-resistant hybrid family of Catimors. (Caturra x Timor Hybrid.)

The Aguileras do some of their drying on tarps that are laid out along one side of a large field below their micromill, where the coffee shares space with a soccer field that the family has built for use by the pickers as well as the local community and school groups. They are very active in the community and their family spirit extends beyond the farms and the mill.

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