Coffee Description
Vibrantly tropical, and richly sweet the Carlos Guamanga is an
exceptional cup of coffee. Bursting in the first sip with bright passion
fruit, followed by the delicate sweetness of Watermelon creates an
exciting tangy complexity. Each sip begins with that high fruitiness
before rolling into a creamy Cookie Butter finish, locking in that
sweetness and prepping you for another taste. This coffee is perfect
for anyone familiar with lighter coffees who are looking for a little bit
of adventure.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1750 masl
Region
Huila
About Carlos Guamanga of Colombia
Carlos Guamanga is the owner of Finca El Recuerdo, located in the district of Huila in Colombia. Carlos began his coffee journey at the age of 15, leaving home for the first time in
search of better work opportunities. Over the course of his career he
began learning about the crop, studying the roasting and cupping of
specialty coffees at the SENA (National Learning Service), and
through trial and error he experimented with diverse post-collection
processing techniques.
Huila, Colombia
Cat & Cloud
Based in the west coast beach town of Santa Cruz, CA, Cat & Cloud Coffee was started by long-time coffee professionals Chris Baca, Jared Truby, and Charles Jack. Chris and Jared hold five Top-5 finishes in the US Barista, Brewer's Cup, and Latte Art Competitions between them. Begun as a podcast and an online webstore in 2015, Cat & Cloud opened their first retail location September of 2016.
With a vision “To Change the Way the World Does Business,” they created and currently run the most-listened to/watched Coffee-related Podcast and YouTube channel in the US. Whether it’s previous work in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan as part of TechnoServe's East Africa Coffee Initiative, making sure their team members are well taken care of and sending them to origin, to developing relationships with coffee producer partners based on repeatable quality scores, not the volatility of the C-market.
Working to be content creators, information sharers, and industry leaders, they strive “to learn, grow, and create a community that feels good to EVERYONE, not just to the few people at the top.”
