With the holidays behind us, we are breaking into a new year of exciting offerings. We decided we ought to set the tone by starting off 2025 with a wild and boozy natural from the Manos Juntas Micromill from the Cauca region of Colombia! After sampling a number of fresh crop coffees, we knew we wanted to find something that would wake up our tastebuds and challenge our palettes as we gear up for some exciting and novel coffees on the roster in the coming months. This coffee delivered on all fronts, as it had an excellent texture, and presented an interesting complexity, with notes of ripe banana, blackberry liqueur and a sweet cane sugar finish.

While many of the Colombian coffees we have sourced over the years have primarily been from the Huila department of Colombia, this offering is from the mountains of Cauca. Grown by smallholder farmers at elevations ranging between 1400-2000 masl, who then sell their cherry to the Manos Juntas Micromill. This coffee is a single cultivar of Castillo subjected to a five day anaerobic fermentation, and the booziness imparted by this method is one of the things we enjoyed about it most. Colombia has become a powerhouse in producing exciting and innovative processes of coffee, and over the years, we’ve come to appreciate the diversity of the flavor profiles from Colombian coffee. Though it is only one coffee-producing country out of many, these days they truly do have almost every flavor profile that coffee nerds could expect to find from regions all across the world.

This anaerobic natural is a wild one, with notes of ripe banana, blackberry liqueur, and cane sugar, with a smooth velvety texture.