Description
Coffee Flavour : Marzipan, Candied lemon, Sweet pastry, Brown sugar
COLOMBIA EL YALCON
Here at Ozone, we're always on the lookout for tasty and delicious decaf. It can sometimes be a little tricky to get our hands on, but we aim to always have at least 1 decaffeinated coffee available at all times.
As crops come and go during the year, our decaf offering changes and rolls with the seasons - right now it is a washed Caturra from El Yalcon in Huila, Colombia that has been decaffeinated using sugar cane. Please note - if you sign up for a recurring subscription to this coffee, you will always be sent our current decaf offering which occasionally changes throughout the year.
El Yalcón is a Colombian speciality coffee produced by 36 small-scale growers in the municipalities of La Plata and Pitalito. These farms range from 1 to 5 hectares and are mostly located at higher altitudes - above 1,500 metres above sea level.
They are also mainly cultivated with traditional varieties such as Caturra.
Last year we finally got to visit our partners in Colombia. We spent time in La Plata and Pitalito in the Huila region of Colombia. Here we visited a few producers who contribute to the collective lot that we know as El Yalcon.
One of the farmers we visited was Joaquin Eladio Opsina Gil, his farm Finca Los Nogales was situated right up in the mountains at 1900 m.a.s.l. Here we met him and his wife, who showed us around their farm. They grow not only coffee but also Sugar cane and citrus fruits.
Sixteen years ago, he began his coffee journey as a picker in Antioquia, where he stayed because of his wife. Around 7 years ago, he purchased Finca Los Nogales and is still paying off the loan to this day. He took great pride in his work and showed us his wet mill where he is depulping and washing the coffee and his fermentation tanks.
Oh, by the way: this coffee is decaffeinated. We say this as a 'by the way' because it really is, we feel, the least important part of this coffee's name.
Something that might not sound remarkable about this coffee is that It was decaffeinated in Colombia. Why is that remarkable? Because most coffee is decaffeinated in either Canada or Germany which adds food miles to the coffee, which is not good. What decaffeination in a coffee's producing country does is add value at the place where we're very happy to add value; that is, around 40 kilometres from the warehouse where the shipments are collated.
'SC' stands for sugar cane, because the decaffeination agent ethyl acetate is naturally derived from sugar cane.
An initial marzipan aroma leads into flavours of candied lemon and buttery sweet pastry. A long brown sugar note lingers in the finish.
- Country: Colombia
- Department: Huila
- Municipality: Pitalito
- Coffee: El Yalcon
- Altitude: 1,500–1,900 m.a.s.l.
- Variety: Caturra
- Processing method: Washed
- Drying method: Sun-dried in greenhouses and on raised beds
- Decaffeination: Descafecol plant in Colombia: uses ethyl acetate derived from a natural source – namely sugar cane
Delivery Times : To ensure all coffee is as fresh as you possible can get we do not stock ourselves, Ozone is based on the same estate as ourselves, if you order we will order and pick up, this will delay shipping your order by a day depending on when you order, place an order Thursday 3pm to Monday 3pm will be dispatched Tuesday, Monday 3pm to Tuesday 3pm will be dispatched Wednesday and so on
We offer coffee roasted in different forms that suits your favourite way of making coffee :
Beans - Roasted and ready to be freshly ground by you, for those that like to take their time
Cafetiere / French Press - Fill and sit down ready when you are
Filter / Coarse - For the coffee machine enthusiasts who just need coffee always ready to go
Espresso - Roasted and ground for those that want or need a good punch of coffee
Jug / Coarse - The classic coffee drinker who like to brew up on the stove
