Calendar Coffee - BIG NOTHING | COLOMBIA | DECAFFEINATED ESPRESSO

Stone Fruit & Papaya
Harvest: Sep-Oct 2024

Country: Colombia
Producer: Community Blend
Region: Caldas, Huila
Process: Washed & E.A Sugar Cane Sugar Decaffeination
Variety: Pink Bourbon
Altitude: 1,800 masl


Sugarcane E.A. Decaffeination is a natural process that not only maintains fantastic integrity of green coffee flavour, but also allows us to offer a coffee that is grown, processed and decaffeinated all at source. This coffee is processed at the Descafecol plant in Manzales, Colombia where Ethyl Acetate derived from 100% sugarcane and mountain water is used to remove over 97% of the caffeine present. With the full decaffeination process happening at origin, this provides a secondary income to the country, and has benefits for cup quality too. Unlike other decaffeinated coffees that are shipped to Mexico, Germany or Canada for processing, this coffee is shipped directly to our European warehouse. By minimising the time spent in transit, this coffee can be roasted while it's still fresh. This also reduces its carbon footprint.

Big Nothing is our bold take on decaf - an espresso that delivers full flavour with less than 3% of the caffeine you would expect from Arabica coffee. Sourced from the high altitudes of Caldas, Colombia, this coffee is grown by a community of farmers committed to improving the quality, sustainability and profitability of their crop.  The producers who contributed to this lot sold their coffee to the exporter Raw Material as whole cherries. This coffee was then fermented and washed by the Raw Material team in Colombia, before it was sent for decaffeination.