This yellow honey-processed coffee is from La Isla farm in Naranjo, West Valley, Costa Rica. The farm is owned by Luis Padilla, who bought it in 2017, and covers 10.5 hectares at 1550 meters altitude. The coffee is harvested from Catigua varietal trees, a hybrid of Catuai and Timor created in Brazil to combine resistance to coffee leaf rust with high cup quality. After harvest, the coffee was pulped using a Pengaos eco-pulper to remove the outer layer of fruit and dried on raised tables. Tasting notes include prune, dates, and hazelnut.
Bradley and Amelia started Horsham Coffee Roaster in 2012, roasting on a 1kg machine in their garage. The operation has since grown into a purpose built roastery in Burgess Hill, Sussex, where they roast daily on a Loring S35 low emissions roaster. They became the first UK roaster to sign The Pledge at transparency.coffee and maintain direct trade relationships in Rwanda, Kenya, Costa Rica, and Brazil. Most of their coffees score 85 or above on the SCA scale. They also co own Bond Street Coffee in Brighton, listed by The Telegraph among Britain's top 30 coffee shops. BBC Good Food named their subscription the UK's Best Ethical Coffee Subscription.
