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Maria Cristina Guasca's Finca El Realce Colombia Washed

Maria Cristina Guasca's Finca El Realce Colombia Washed

La Clara Coffee Roasters

About This Coffee

This coffee is from Finca El Realce farm in San Francisco, Cundinamarca, Colombia, produced by Maria Cristina Guasca at 1,450 meters altitude. It is a washed processed coffee that is 100% organically grown. The coffee is cultivated beneath a native rainforest canopy for natural pest and disease protection. The processing involves picking cherries and resting them under shade for 40 hours, followed by depulping and 18 hours of anaerobic fermentation in water. The seeds are washed with spring water, dried, and then stored in hermetic bags with parchment for 30 days to stabilize. Flavor notes include chocolate, caramel, herbs, and spices.

Origin

Cundinamarca (Colombia)

Flavor Notes

Herb-like, Spices, Chocolate, Caramelized

Roast Level

Processing

Washed

Typology

LC

La Clara Coffee Roasters

Three Colombians living in Sweden wanted to reconnect with home, and coffee was the way back. La Clara operates from Stallarholmen, a small community in Sodermanland County, roasting exclusively Colombian beans brought directly from farm to roastery. One of their primary sources is Oscar Restrepo's Finca La Divisa in the Apia and Risaralda region, growing the Castillo variety at 1,800 meters and processing it as red honey. The range demonstrates how different processing methods, natural, honey, and washed, transform the same variety from the same farm into distinctly different cups. La Clara opens only on Sundays, making it the sole specialty coffee experience in the area. The operation is a one person company with just over a thousand Instagram followers, but the mission is personal and precise: Colombian heart in Swedish cups.

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