Colombia Albeirzon Prada Devia Tres Esquinas: Sample Coffee Roasters

Colombia
Albeirzon Prada Devia
Tres Esquinas

Albeirzon Prada, owner of Finca Tres Esquinas, comes from a lineage of coffee farmers, growing up amidst coffee trees. We’re finding notes of candied red apple and mulled wine.

Washed process Caturra

Flavour: candied red apple, mulled wine

Body Acidity

Roast: omni (filter + espresso)

The coffee growers of Los Vascos descend from early northern spanish settlers, with Los Vascos translating to “The Basques”. Their ancestral cuisine combines strong aromatic and natural sweet flavours like cherries and dark wines, notes of which can be tasted in the profile of their coffees today. The growers of this region consistently produce high quality coffee and continue to seek out ways to improve what they do.

Alberizon Prada, owner of Finca Tres Esquinas, grew up with coffee. His parents were coffee growers, and he was raised in and among the coffee trees. Today, he works on his own farm with his wife, applying everything that he learned from his parents to produce specialty coffee.

For Albeirzon and his family, high quality coffee means aiming to have fewer bean defects caused by actions on his farm. He achieves this by focusing on specialized tree care, picking only mature cherries, better post harvest techniques and investing back into his farm infrastructure.

They plan to increase the quantity of available coffee, while also increasing the quality of what they harvest. He wants to start replacing his Castillo trees for Caturra because he has noticed that Caturra is more productive on his farm.

Albeirzon is member of a cooperative called ASOTBILBAO, a group of dedicated producers committed to the sustainability of coffee as well as the soil in which it grows.

Sourcing and ingredients

100% Caturra coffee beans, provided by Caravela and roasted by us on Gadigal land / Sydney.

Country grade: Unknown ?

Packaging

Bag: ABA Certified home compostable
Label: Recyclable
Valve (on bags larger than 250g): General waste
Coffee ordered online is shipped in a recyclable cardboard box

Brewing this coffee

We recommend brewing this coffee 15–49 days post-roast. If pre-ground, brew as soon as possible. Our advice on storing coffee.

1:3
dose:yield
ratio

To brew on espresso, we recommend using 20g of beans (dose) to get 60g of espresso out (yield), during 24-28 seconds.

g dose

g yield

View the how to brew espresso (single origin) guide.

1:16.7
beans:water
ratio

To brew in infusion/fed brewers (V60, Chemex) use a ratio of 1:16.7 ratio of beans:water.

g beans

g water

View full recipes and videos in our brewguides

1:14.3
beans:water
ratio

To brew in immersion brewers (plunger, AeroPress, Kalita, batch brewer) we recommend using a 1:14.3 ratio of beans:water

g beans

g water

View full recipes and videos in our brewguides

1:12
beans:water
ratio

To brew as cold brew we recommend using a 1:12 ratio of beans:water

g beans

g water

View full recipes and videos in our brewguides

Country: Colombia
Region: Tolima
Altitude: 1750m above sea level
Varietals: Caturra
Process: Washed
Harvested: August 2023
Body: Medium
Acidity: Medium
Tasting notes: Candied red apple, mulled wine
Roast style: Omni

Varietals

Caturra varietal

Caturra is a natural mutation of Bourbon that was originally discovered in Brazil in 1937, considered to be the first naturally occurring mutation ever discovered.

The location

Coffee from Colombia

Colombia is one of the largest coffee producers in the world and benefits greatly from having one of the most unique and complex set of micro-climates of all coffee producing nations.

The Tolima region of Colombia

The word ‘Tolima’ comes from the local indigenous language and means a “river of snow or cloud”.

Farm processes

Washed process

Machines are used to remove the flesh from the coffee cherry before being fermented in water, washed again, and finally sun dried. This process tends to result in more distinct, cleaner flavours.