Wilton Benitez Pink Bourbon • Adv. Process Thermal Shock // Cauca, Colombia

Wilton Benitez is one of Colombia’s most exciting and innovative coffee producers at the moment.  Wilton brings his background of chemical engineering to fermentation and processing utilizing an impressive facility of stainless steel fermentors, bioreactors, UV sanitizers, precision yeast additions, selectively bred bacterias, and their own custom built dry mill, Granja Paraiso 92 is one of the most impressive farms producing coffee today.

This Pink Bourbon lot showcases the full depth of Wilton’s advanced protocol. After selective harvesting, cherries undergo a sterilization process using ozonated water and UV light, followed by two stages of anaerobic fermentation — both precisely managed with microbial inoculation and bioreactor pressure control. A carefully timed thermal shock process is then applied to fix aromatic precursors into the cell walls of the beans before being slowly dried.

*Orders Roast Tuesday, ship Wednesday.  Order cutoff from same-week fulfillment is Monday at 11:59pm.