Colombia Marco Fidel Rodriguez Pink Bourbon 2023: Sample Coffee Roasters

Colombia
Marco Fidel Rodriguez
Pink Bourbon 2023

Pink Bourbon is a natural hybrid between the Yellow and Red Bourbon varietals. This lot has balanced acidity with hints of stone fruit, berries and black tea.

Body Acidity

Roasted omni for filter and espresso

This lot is a humble version of Marco Fidel Rodriguez’s Very Special X-Grade Pink Bourbon. It has balanced acidity and hints of stone fruit, berries and black tea. A delicious everydayer.

Marco first planted Pink Bourbon (a natural hybrid between the Yellow and Red Bourbon varietals, originating in Huila) seven years ago, and planted a second lot of this varietal around two years ago. It’s now 20% of his crop, with the remainder being Caturra.

Growing Pink Bourbon brings its own challenges, though: more attention has to be paid during cherry picking to make sure they are at the right level of ripeness, because the varietal can over-ripen very quickly and doesn’t last as long on the tree. Pink Bourbon trees are more resilient to coffee leaf rust, but also produce fewer cherries than other varietals.

We’ve been getting coffee from MFR since 2015, and this lots proves that his coffee is only getting better and better. Here’s Reuben when he met Marco and the family back on that year:

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Resting your beans inside the sealed bag helps develop peak flavours and acidity.

Learn how long and why you should wait on our brewing window recommendations guide.

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Sourcing and ingredients

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

Green coffee certified Organic, Rainforest Alliance, and Fairtrade.

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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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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g 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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g water

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Producer: Marco Fidel Rodriguez
Country: Colombia
Region: Filo De Chillurco, Huila
Varietals: Pink Bourbon
Process: Washed
Body: Medium
Acidity: Medium
Tasting notes: Peach, strawberry, black tea
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 Huila region of Colombia

This region boasts the perfect combination of high quality soil and geography and is quickly becoming one of the largest coffee producing regions in Colombia. One of the best regarded regions for high quality, fruit driven coffee.

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.