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Taste Experiment
Here's a fun game! Two brothers are fighting over the best way to process coffee.
In one corner is Misael Quintero who believes that coffee tastes better using a barrel fermentation.
In the other corner is Rodrigo Perafan who swears by the air dried method.
Well, we don't know just how testy this argument got, and whether they came to blows, but we do know they eventually split up the family farm.
So now- we get to see who was right: Same trees, same origin: different processing.
Finca Las Delicias
This is a delicious double fermented Colombian coffee from farmer, Misael Quintero. Misael and his brother-in-law process the same exact coffee in their own unique ways.
Finca Las Piedras
Both brothers double ferment their coffees- in other words, they leave their cherries in the floating tank (under water) for 24-36 hours, pulp and then ferment again.
The other brother-in-law, Rodrigo (who calls his farm, Finca Las Piedras), does the second fermentation on a drying patio for 48 hours, ie. an "aerobic" fermentation.
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