Pink lemonade, Yellow flower honey
1.87888° N — 76.27126° W
Beans
About the beans and origin
Notes: Pink lemonade, Yellow flower honey
Country: Colombia
Region: San Augustìn, Huila
Farm: Miramar
Producer: Angel Ortega
Process: Washed
Varieties: Pink Bourbon
Altitude: 1680m
Brew
Proposed ratios and techniques
Espresso 1:3 in 34 seconds
Delivery
Delivery details
An order received before Wednesday noon is delivered on Friday.
We deliver by electric car twice a week in Montreal, on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Escape pays delivery fees for all orders over $300 in Montreal, $400 in the rest of Quebec, and $500 in Canada.
Angel
$15.00
Angel is Angel Ortega's Pink Bourbon from Huila, Colombia. It is hard to find the words to describe the affection we have toward this coffee. Every year, the harvest comes in the roastery and is a team favorite from the first sip.
This Washed Colombian coffee has a truly unique personality. Its acidity is simply remarquable, reminscent of the flavour of pink lemonade; a truly nostalgic feel. The following sweetness of this coffee reminds us of spring collected honey. It's clean, crisp and refreshing.
We don't often give recommendations on how to drink a coffee, but you should try this one as a filter. If you absolutely want to try it as an espresso, aim for a longer ratio. Enjoy!
Angel
$15.00
Angel Ortega is a second generation coffee grower from San Agustin Huila, he has been growing coffee since he was a teenager. He began in his youth, working alongside his father and brother, Augusto Ortega, and managing his own plot of 700 trees. In 1985, at the age of 24, he set out on his own and planted 10,000 trees of the Colombia variety in a lot. Though San Agustin now is a storied coffee growing area, with nearly 6000 coffee growers across the region, in the 1980s the arid soils in the Kennedy zone, where Angel set up to grow, meant the area was devoid of coffee. Every summer when the heavy rains would come, soil would wash down from the farms and cover the roads. That being said, those who were able to successfully grow coffee like the Ortega brothers benefited from certain aspects that lack today. For example, in the 1980s, nobody in this area used chemical products on their coffee as there was no need for heavy fertilizer use to encourage growth of beautiful crops. Compare that to now, where a steady trend towards monocultures coupled with the increase of climate related diseases, like roya, means that producers need to apply fertilizers three to four times a year and must treat for diseases at least once a year. Due to a much less developed coffee growing culture forty years ago, Angel originally sold his coffee en verde which means that it was depulped and then sold without being dried. There were few local buyer options for coffee dried to parchmen, and entering into them often involved fees that were prohibitive. Despite that, Don Angel (like many of his generation) reflect on the times gone by with nostalgia. The cost of living was much lower and the higher productivity with lower input costs of their farms meant coffee growing could be a much more profitable venture than it became over the following decades. In the year 2000, Don Angel joined a local coffee growers union that assisted him in learning about specialty grade coffees and he and the other growers began to develop a client base in Europe through this program. However, these were always sold in blend lots without his name on it.
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Transparency
Price paid to Semilla: US$5.85/lb
C-market at time of purchase: US$1.90/lb
Fairtrade at time of purchase: US$2.00/lb
Quantity purchased 2023-2024 : 1700 lbs
Years of relationship: 4 years
