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We recommend a slight twist of our conical dripper recipe for this coffee: brew with 91°C water temperature, and a 4 pour structure instead of the 5 pour structure.
1) use 13 grams of medium ground coffee over 200 grams of water.
2) bloom with 50 grams,
3) second pour of 70 grams at 0:30
4) third and fourth pour of 40 grams at 1:00 and 1:30 respectively.
5) extraction should end around 2:20, enjoy!
Living in a municipality with harder tap water? Don’t underestimate the effect of water on the flavour of your coffee! Make sure to filter it down to under 80 ppm when brewing coffee. We recommend the BWT Magnesium Mineralised Water filters for best results.
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Variety: Red Catuaí
Process: 72h Anaerobic Natural
Producer: Finca Rio Loa
Elevation: 1650 masl
Location: Loa, Caranavi Province, Bolivia
Net weight: 200 grams whole beans
Roasted for: Filter
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This coffee comes out of the Loa Primera community, located at a 2 hours driving distance from Caranavi, Bolivia’s coffee growing capital. Finca Rio Loa is an environmental project from coffee and nature lovers Reynaldo and Nelly who bought the property back in 2011 after having worked for 15 years with local coffee producing organizations. They choose this spot for its special bound with the surrounding untouched nature which they want to preserve in symbiosis with their coffee growing activities.
Contrary to some other coffee producers, Reynaldo and Nelly haven’t burn’t down the hillside to plant coffee, instead they follow an agroforestry approach, leaving the high local trees for a shade grown coffee production. This mimics how wild coffee grows, within dense forests, with the natural protection of the tree canopy against the hot sun, heavy rains and hail, drastically reducing the need for fertilizers and insecticides. This lot of red catuaí, has been manually harvested at it’s ripest, carefully selected and dried directly at the Finca where it was dried in the sun on raised beds. With this variety, Reynaldo and Nelly participated in the national green coffee auction three in the past (2018, 2020 and 2023), winning 1st place in 2023!
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Sourcing directly at origin from small farmers, we are fully aware of the hard work that goes into the quality product we buy and the challenges their families face to earn their fragile livelihood. In this regard, coffee producing communities in Bolivia face additional challenges, due to the lack of infrastructure, financial support and difficult access to international freight routes. To fairly balance the relationship between roaster and producer we are price takers and as part of our long term commitment to a financially and environmentally sustainable coffee production in Bolivia, we factor these realities into the pricing.
For this 20 Kg batch of specialty grade coffee, Nelly and Reynaldo received 17,04 USD/Kg.
