Cup Notes: Chocolate, Brown Sugar, Caramel
 
Processing: Decaf - Sugar Cane EA
Elevation: 1450 MASL
 
Finca Cristalina is a 19 hectare farm that has been growing coffee for over 100 years. Alberto and German have been running the farm since 2015, after inheriting it from their father. They sort the coffee cherries before and after the fermentation and drying process to ensure no underripes sneak through. The decaf process uses the indirect solvent method, where the coffee is soaked in near boiling water for several hours. This extracts the caffeine from the beans. The beans are washed in ethyl acetate for 10 hours, a solvent that selectively bonds to caffeine molecules, which then evaporates out. The beans are then resoaked in the original slurry to reabsorb their flavor elements and coffee oils.