Coffee Description
This year’s harvest from Carmen marks a notable jump in intensity of
flavor and clarity in her coffee, opening with juicy pink starburst and
ripe nectarine. This amalgam of candy and stone fruit has a heavy
body and velvety mouthfeel. As the coffee cools, the buttery
sweetness of pie crust emerges and lingers on your palate.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Castillo
Process
Washed
Elevation
1800 masl
Region
Nariño
About Carmen Canchala of Colombia
This coffee comes to us from our friend, Carmen Canchala, a
third-generation coffee and sugar cane grower from the Andean
municipality of Ancuya. Carmen and her family go to
great lengths to ensure that their coffee is grown and milled in the
best possible environment, growing without the use of pesticides and
even going so far as to ensure that no animals or vehicles are allowed
near the farm to minimize pollutants.
Nariño, 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.”
