Colombia Norbey Quimbayo: Sample Coffee Roasters

Colombia
Norbey Quimbayo

Norbey’s farm is in Acevedo, Huila, under an hour away from Pitalito where microlots from across Huila are collected for milling. We taste Concord grape, ripe pineapple, and pinot noir.

Body Acidity

Roasted omni for filter and espresso

Norbey comes back with an outstanding washed lot of Pink Bourbon.

La Esmeralda is a lush coffee farm located 1800 metres above sea level in the town of Acevedo, Huila Colombia. Don Norbey Quimbayo runs it alongside his wife and two children.

Norbey started in coffee as a picker and a cook, but eventually, he got the opportunity to buy some land—what today is La Esmeralda. Like many others, he started producing commodity coffee to move onto the specialty grade in 2010. He started experimenting with rare varieties such as Geisha, Papayo, and Tabi. But most importantly, he began to fine-tune the picking and processing practices to achieve the full potential of every coffee lot.

A close photo of red coffee cherries in a tree. They’re Pink Bourbon Varietal.

Pink Bourbon coffee cherries at La Esmeralda

This lot is 100% washed Pink Bourbon. It has super complex and rich layers, brought by the volcanic ash soil, the high growing altitude and the care put through the whole producing and shipping process.

All the images and information about this coffee and its producers have been kindly shared by the importer, Cofinet, and edited by us, Sample Coffee (unless linked to or credited otherwise).

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.

Try our step-by-step recipes and videos.

Our recipes are easy to follow and designed to bring the best out of our coffee. Find your favourite method on our brew guides collection or test a new one—and if you have any questions, ask us anytime at [email protected].

Sourcing and ingredients

100% Pink Bourbon coffee beans, provided by Cofinet 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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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

Producer: Norbey Quimbayo
Country: Colombia
Region: Acevedo, Huila
Altitude: 1700-1750m above sea level
Varietals: Pink Bourbon
Process: Washed
Harvested: February 2023
Body: Medium
Acidity: Medium
Tasting notes: Concord grape, ripe pineapple, pinot noir
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.