Colombia Chambaku

Year after year, the Restrepo family brings us what is possibly our most enjoyable house espresso. Finca Chambakú is a 12-hectare farm located in Villamaría, Caldas, one of the 17 farms that make up Hacienda el Jardín. And it is a project in constant evolution. After several years of collaborating with NOMAD , the infrastructure has been adapted to the needs of new market trends.

For the 2023 harvest, the new processing plant was officially opened, where coffee protocols are being developed in bioreactors, seeking to stabilize cup profiles in larger volumes and allowing them to be replicated consistently. These bioreactors allow for a wet processing method that uses three times less water than traditional methods, continuing the concept of reducing the amount of water used in farm processes that began with PIPES LAND natural coffees.

Process The coffee is harvested manually, and only cherries that are perfectly ripe are selected. The cherries are oxidized in baskets for 14 hours. They are then pulped, and the bioreactors are filled with 1,400 kg of pulped coffee, which undergoes anaerobic fermentation for 12 hours.

At night, the bioreactor's liquid supply tank is filled with 100 liters of water, which is recirculated every 25 minutes. In the morning, the 100 liters of water with the mucilage that has been removed are taken out, the tank is filled with another 100 liters of clean water, and it is left for 7 hours, recirculating every 10 minutes. Finally, the cherries are dried continuously for 40 hours at a temperature not exceeding 45 degrees in a mechanical silo with circular movement to homogenize and ensure good moisture extraction and stable water activity.