Anayibe Ortíz - Borbón Ají 'Copa de Oro' // Huila, Colombia

Anayibe and her husband Alirio Muñoz, alongside their four children, oversee production across four separate farm plots within Bruselas.  Besides growing and processing her own coffees, Anayibe works hard preparing meals for everyone working on the farm. To supplement her family and workers diet to for added income the family also grows dry beans, corn, and plantain.  This lot was selected by us as an outstanding coffee in the Copa de Oro competition — a producer competition held within Huila by our importing partners.  This is the first year Anayibe has participated in the competition.

Her winning lot -- a washed Borbón Ají was brought in from the field and put into what she calls an oxidation stage where the intact cherry was fermented without water for 18 hours after which it was de-pulped, and fermented in plastic barrels with water for 75 hours, then rinsed, and put out to dry on a parabolic greenhouse dryer with raised beds for 21 days.

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