El Indio - Colombia

Origin

• 🇨🇴 Colombia

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
  50
• Sweet
  50
• Bright
  30
• Bold
  25
• Comforting
  25
• Clean
  20

“Prepare for some funk! - there’s an awful lot going on here. Intense, fruity and complex coffee.” There’s a big almond thing going on, but funked up, like marzipan. The acidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it. is like a juicy, slightly caramelised orange, like marmalade. The there’s this cherry balsam kind of thing going on. It’s like sticky boiled sweets with a hint of cough medicine. This is really complex coffee and you might also find fleeting notes of tropical fruit, cardamom, wine, chocolate and molasses. It doesn’t matter how you brew this coffee, it’s so good all ways, but oh boy, the espresso is to die for - and it even works well with milk, not always a given when the coffee is this funkyFunky / lacticTasting language for deliberate fermentation flavor: yogurt-like tang (lactic), winey or boozy notes, overripe fruit. A feature in experimental lots, a defect in classic ones..