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Lot 02 · Farm page
Las Nubes Catuaí
Catuaí Rojo · Finca Las Nubes · Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama
- Elevation
- 1,450m above sea level
- Harvest
- January
- Served in
- Demitasse, matte black stoneware
In the cup
- Dark cherry
- Cocoa nib
- Brown butter
- Orange peel
The lot
- Lot number
- Lot 02
- Variety
- Catuaí Rojo
- Farm
- Finca Las Nubes
- Producer
- Delia Camarena
- Region
- Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama
- Elevation
- 1,450 m above sea level
- Harvest month
- January
- Process
- Yellow honey, twelve days on raised beds, turned every two hours until midday
- Soil
- Deep clay with river gravel
- Shade
- Banana and inga
- Lot size
- 240 kg green
- Arrival
- Arrived in Hamburg 2 July
- Roast
- Roasted for espresso, 12 days rest
How we brew it
Espresso
18 g in, 38 g out, 28 seconds, water at 93 °C
The cup it is served in
Demitasse, matte black stoneware
Werkstatt Ohlsdorf, with a turned brass foot
Volume 60 ml
Heavy enough to hold heat for the length of a conversation; the brass foot keeps the base off the walnut.
The farm
Delia Camarena farms nine hectares below the cloud line, where the fog arrives at four in the afternoon and stays. Honey processing here is a matter of timing rather than recipe: the mucilage has to dry before the fog comes back.
This is the only coffee in the salon we buy in volume, and the only one we serve as espresso. It is the house cup — the one the neighbourhood drinks standing at the end of the bar.