Pink Bourbon Coffee
Price range: $30.00 through $171.00
We taste Citrus, Nectarine, Melon, & Honey. This fan favorite is unique, complex, and perfect with tonic water.
Colombia Pink Bourbon Coffee. Lactic Process Coffee. Lactic Washed Coffee. Latic Fermentation Coffee.
What’s Pink about this Pink Bourbon Coffee?
A coffee bean starts out as a seed inside a colorful cherry on a tree. Bourbon Rosado, the pink bourbon variety, is named for the rosy pink, “rosado”, color of the cherries the tree produces.
The French were the first to plant heirloom typicas stolen from Ethiopia and Yemen on an island off the coast of Madagascar known at the time as the Bourbon Islands. These coffee plants that self pollinate most of the time came together and created the interspecific hybrid we call Bourbon.
Colombia pink bourbon coffee came about when farmers began to notice a mutation hundreds of years later in coffee that had been transplanted in Colombia.
Instead of red, orange, or yellow bourbon cherries on these trees, they were a rosy color! This was a hybrid of yellow and red bourbon. Most importantly, farmers took time to separate and individually cultivate plants that made this unique fruit. We are so glad they did!
When you think of things that are both pink and delicious, plenty of options come to mind. Pink champagne and lemonade. Starburst and cotton candy. Pink lady apples and grapefruits. Even pink peppercorns and maybe pink salt in your taffy. And now, you can add pink coffee to the list!
How does it taste?
This vibrant bean possesses a bright, smooth pink grapefruit acidity and a floral sweetness. It’s an absolute classic. We taste clear and delicate fruits like pear, lemon, nectarine, & bergamot.
Pour overs made a broadly but well-structured cup of coffee that changed drastically when a little “bypass” water was added. We taste more delicate flavors like green melon, green tea, and lime blossom when we use a coffee to water ratio that is more water than our usual recipe (1:16 or even 1:17).
Consequently, it always has something fascinating to offer no matter how you brew it, but it is definitely a special cup. If you love a high grown Colombian coffee, this is the coffee for you.
Absolutely, if your coffee order tends to include a request for a bold, sturdy brew, brighter pour-overs or a balanced and complex single-origin Colombia coffee—then, you may just fall in love with this impeccably processed lot. In conclusion, there are many reasons it is a huge favorite on our site, and we are always excited to have it in season.
Discover El Mirador
Eduardo Armero is a coffee grower from Narino with considerable experience in high quality coffee production despite his young appearance. He started this new project in Huila two years ago and the coffee has already attracted a good deal of attention. His 6 hectare farm produces a total of 100 bags a year of various varieties, spread of two harvest seasons. The main season in this area is from May – August with the smaller crop from October – January. About 20% of the farm has shade coverage. Like many better managed coffee farms, only fully ripe fruit is harvested here.
In addition, check out our co-fermented coffee with Mango & Coconut! More exciting coffees from Colombia!
