La Primavera | Peebies | Colombia

Red apple, milk chocolate, icing sugar

£12.95
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Info

Origin: Colombia

Region: Huila and Tolima

Farm/CWS: La Primavera Dry Mill Armenia

Producer: Caravela (various contributors)

Altitude: 1400-1800m

Variety: Caturra PB (mostly)

Process: Washed

Story

Whoaaaaaaaa... PEEBIES IS BACK! Fresh crop tings.

I'm heading out to the dry mill in December, so I'll update with heaps more info when I get back, for now though you can have the same info as we did last time:

Colombian speciality coffee generally falls into one of two categories, Excelso (14-16 screen size beans) and Supremo (17+). This is cool, but what of the smaller beans? Well they usually get blended up regardless of quality and end up in the hands of commodity traders for peanuts. This lot is a new initiative from Caravela, they’ve taken all the little 12-14 Caturra beans from their primo dry mill in Quindio and kept them off the c-market. So this is the bits and bobs from some of the best Colombians money can buy, all mixed up and sold at a fair price. It’s soo bloody nice!

Here's the Caravela blurb:

Peebies come from the word peaberries. They are beans that are sized less than screen 14. Our
stringent quality analysis ensures that the coffees that we mill are of the highest quality but
sometimes there are great quality beans that don't meet the minimum size requirements for
certain preparations. Peebies are those great coffees that slip through the cracks.

Normally the cherry of the coffee plant contains two beans that develop with flat sides against
each other, like two halves of a peanut. Occasionally, one of the coffee beans doesn’t develop
the flat side and remains small and round, these are the peaberries. Peebies usually tend to
taste sweeter and more flavorful. About 5% of the world’s coffee falls into the peebies category
and Caravela buys this coffee for its interesting profile and in order to support producers’
incomes for beans that would otherwise not be sold as speciality coffee.

Peebies are a blend of coffees from different small scale producers and different regions, they are especially common
in Huila and Tolima. We carefully make this blend in our milling warehouse, it is essentially a
blend of a little bit of each of our best coffee lots!

Sustainability & Post Life
  • Carbon neutral production
  • Post-consumer wastemade pouches from a minimum of 83% recycled material
  • Recycle with bags at larger supermarkets (4 LDPE)
  • Remove label if possible (don't worry if not, we've ensured it's under the industry standard 5% of the whole item, so it can be recycled)
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La Primavera Dry Mill Armenia

Huila and Tolima

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