Colombia Los Tres Mosqueteros Pink Bourbon: Sample Coffee Roasters

Colombia
Los Tres Mosqueteros
Pink Bourbon

Felipe started to produce coffee with his brother after graduating as an Agro-Industrial Engineer. This lot has notes of florals, lemon, and orange blossom.

Body Acidity

Roasted omni for filter and espresso

All for one, and one for all! This Pink Bourbon is part of a delicious threesome featuring heaps of floral notes, lemon and orange blossom.

Felipe is originally from the Tolima region of Colombia and is his family’s 1st generation of coffee growers alongside his brother.

His first contact with the industry was when he was 16. Felipe shadowed his brother in visiting coffee producers around the region—he worked with a coffee exporter. A few years later, he left to study Agro-Industrial Engineering in Cauca while his brother bought some land in Antioquia, where he planned to start his own production. When Felipe finished his degree, he decided to join the family business.

Los Tres Mosqueteros

The area of Urrao, where the estate is located, is very special for the production of specialty coffee. It is a valley at 1950 MASL, with a very stable temperature of 19 degrees Celsius that makes the cherries develop slower and denser than in other areas. Surprisingly though, Urrao is not famous as a coffee-producing region: its main activity is the production of avocado.

For Felipe and his brother, kickstarting the coffee production felt extremely difficult. The main reason? They tried to grow 80,000 coffee plants completely organic and from scratch, later losing 80% of those initial trees. Today, however, things look a bit better, and they have 25,000 coffee trees—50% currently organically grown and slowly transitioning to a fully organic coffee plantation.

PINK BOURBON VARIETAL

Felipe explains that while the Chiroso variety is one of the more uncommon varieties across Colombia, Pink Bourbon is rarely grown in the Urrao region.

WASHED PROCESS

Daily cherry collections are fermented in bags for 24 hours as whole cherry, then pulped and left to dry ferment in tanks. This process is repeated for 5 daily cherry pickings. The accumulated coffee is then washed clean on the 6th day and commingle fermented on the 7th day. Finally, the coffee is left to dry on parabolic raised beds to control temperature and humidity to export requirements. According to the buyers, Condesa Co Lab, this process contributed to highlighting the Pink Bourbon variety’s red fruits and floral characteristics.

Los Tres Mosqueteros

Sourcing and ingredients

100% Pink Bourbon coffee beans, provided by Condesa Co.Lab 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.

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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.

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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

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g water

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1:12
beans:water
ratio

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

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Producer: Felipe Henao Triana
Farm/Coop: Los Tres Mosqueteros
Country: Colombia
Region: Urrao, Antioquia
Altitude: 2100m above sea level
Varietals: Pink Bourbon
Process: Washed
Body
Acidity
Tasting notes: Florals, lemon, orange blossom
Roast style: Omni

Varietals

Pink Bourbon varietal

Pink Bourbon is an Ethiopian Heirloom variety (or subvariety)—though, until very recently (~2023), it was thought to be a rare and spontaneous hybrid/mutation of Red and Yellow Bourbon.

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 Antioquia region of Colombia

The region where coffee was first introduced to Colombia and where the FNC originated. It has the largest growing area by hectare of all Colombian growing regions

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.