2nd December
China Aqi Badu
Roastery: Cloud Picker Coffee
Altitude: 1350 m. n. m.
Variety: Catimor
Processing: Natural
Taste profile
Red grapes, maple syrup, black tea.
Origin
The farmers who live, cultivate and harvest their coffee around Aqi Badu are mostly of the Lahu ethnic group. This group populates areas of China as well as Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.
Once again, Cloud Picker chose a natural processed Catimor variety coffee – this combo really seems to find the perfect mix of sweetness, clarity and subtle complexity. It is a quick-growing variety and this mitigates the cool Chinese nights which slow down cherry production.
The Banka wet mill was taken over by Yunnan Coffee Traders in 2018 and they installed one of the region’s first optical sorters in addition to encouraging experimental processing and fermentation. This coffee was run through the optical sorter before fermentation in cherry for two days and drying on raised beds.
Recipe – pour over:
Coffee amount: 16,5 g
Water amount: 285 g
Water temperature: 93 °C
Bloom: 40 g of water – 30 s
First pour: up to 150 g and wait until 1:10
Second pour: up to 220 g and wait until 1:40
Third pour: up to 285 g
Brew time: 2:40 min
