Timor-Leste Letefoho Lebudu Kriak

Origin

• 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  30
• Comforting
  20

Roast Level: Medium Flavor NotesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee.: Molasses, Milk Chocolate, Buttered Pecan Farm: 14 SmallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. Farmers Varietals: TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against., Timor Hybrid Processing Method: Fully WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. Grown in the misty highlands of Timor-Leste's Letefoho region, Lebudu Kriak is the combined work of ten smallholder farmers who cultivate coffee beneath the slopes of Mount Tatamailau, the country's highest peak. This remote, high-elevation landscape is known for producing exceptional coffee, thanks to its rich soils, cool mountain climate, and generations of farming tradition. The coffee is produced through Café Brisa Serena (CBS), a farmer-led organization dedicated to improving quality, sustainability, and economic opportunity in rural communities. Working alongside their coffee trees, farmers grow other crops and create their own organic fertilizers from farm byproducts, nurturing both the land and their livelihoods. This lot features Timor Hybrid and Typica varieties, coffees prized for their resilience and balanced cup character. The result is a comforting, approachable coffee with notes of molasses, chocolate milk, and buttered pecan, supported by a rich bodyBodyThe weight and texture of coffee in the mouth, from tea-like and delicate to syrupy and heavy. Driven by process, roast, variety, and brew method. and gentle 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.. In this year's offering, we taste notes of molasses, milk chocolate, and buttered pecan.