Cup of Excellence Costa Rica #7 Santa Teresa Geisha - Washed
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blueberry • cherry • plum
Ship within 1 week after roast date
100% specialty arabica coffee beans only
Prodigal's coffee beans are at their peak 2 to 3 weeks after roasting
Next up in our COE season is this award-winning Costa Rican geisha from Santa Teresa. This coffee won #7 in the "Traditional Washed" category in this year's Costa Rican Cup of Excellence. Despite being a washed process, this coffee tastes like a clean natural, with purple fruit flavors of blueberry, cherry, and plum.
Also available green for home roasters!
Roger grew up working on his father’s coffee farm and at 15 he began his own plantation. After years of hard work expanding his farms, he founded the Santa Teresa mill in the year 2000, handling varieties such as geisha, sudan rume, pacamara, typica, SL-28, and more. Santa Teresa is a broad, regional effort— families from Panama pick the cherries, and families from Costa Rica and Nicaragua tend the farm.
Santa Teresa sits at 2000 meters, allowing for cool nights that slow the fermentation and drying of the cherry. This award-winning lot was picked ripe and rested in whole cherry for two nights. It was then depulped, washed, and rested again before a final
6 hour fresh water soak and transfer to drying beds.
This is our first of hopefully many offerings of Roger’s coffees!
Process: washed
Region: Los Santos, Costa Rica
Variety: Geisha
Brewing Recipe :
| Filter | |
| Brewing ratio | 1 : 17 |
| Ground coffee | 16g |
| Total water | 250ml |
| Water temperature | 93ºc |
| Brew time | 3 minutes |
In the cup.
How Cup of Excellence Costa Rica #7 Santa Teresa Geisha - Washed shows up — flavour profile, body, finish — graded on our internal cupping rubric.
Brew it
like this.
- Ratio
- 15g : 250g
- Time
- 3:00
- Temp
- 93°C
Bloom 30s. Four pours of 60g, 30s apart.
- Ratio
- 30g : 500g
- Time
- 4:00
- Temp
- 92°C
Plunge slow. Decant immediately to avoid over-extraction.
- Ratio
- 18g : 36g
- Time
- 28s
- Temp
- 93°C
Distribute, tamp level, pull. Adjust grind to hit time.