Colombia Las Flores Tabi Filter

Coffee breakdown:
Origin: Acevedo, Huila, Colombia
Variety: Tabi
Process: Washed (thermal shock)
Producer: The Ayure family
Altitude: 1730 m

Finca Las Flores is located in the city of Acevedo in the Huila department. The Ayure family started their farm in 1990 with 18,000 coffee trees. They continued to grow until they reached 90,000 coffee trees. The family began their journey into specialty coffee in 2006 through the Cup of Excellence program. Today, owner Edilberto and his son Jhoan are working to adjust production and improve post-harvest processes. We were fortunate enough to visit them in 2023 and use their incredible coffees across the competition season in the Australian and World Brewers Cup Competitions.

This lot is a Tabi variety, a hybrid of Bourbon, Typica, and Timor that was developed in Colombia by the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros.

After these cherries were picked they undergo key stages of processing. Firstly, they are floated then washed with hypochlorite, which helps to remove impurities. In-cherry oxidation then occurs across 48hrs. Secondly, they are depulped and left to ferment in their juices for 36 hours. Thirdly, they receive a ‘thermal shock’; involving the addition of hot water into their fermentation tanks such that the coffee remains submerged underwater for 36 hours. Finally, the coffee is dried across a period of up to 10 days.

Coffees from Huila tend to have brighter acidity and stronger fruit notes. Alongside innovative practises, the Vergara family have honed their processing methods and isolated unique qualities of their cherries to create coffee with incredibly unique flavour profiles.