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Puerto Alegre. Maceración Carbónica. Café de Colombia

Puerto Alegre. Maceración Carbónica. Café de Colombia

Kima Coffee

About This Coffee

This coffee is from Finca Puerto Alegre in the Quindio region of Colombia, cultivated by the López family at 1,450 meters altitude. It is a Natural process with Carbonic Maceration, using the Castillo variety. The coffee offers a complex sensory profile with notes of blackberries, dark chocolate, passion fruit, and winey characteristics. The López family has been growing coffee for three generations, maintaining sustainable practices with shade-grown cultivation since the 1970s.

Origin

Quindío (Colombia)

Flavor Notes

Moras, Chocolate Negro, Fruta De La Pasión, Vinoso, Blackberries, Passion Fruit, Winey

Roast Level

Processing

Carbonic Maceration, Honey Maceración Carbónica, Natural Maceración Carbónica

Typology

Arabica
Castillo
KC

Kima Coffee

Rabi Aouam trained as a barista starting in 2010, won the Andalusian Barista Championship in 2014, and began roasting commercially in 2018 without a fixed space. By 2021 he had a roastery and tasting room in the center of Malaga, and the operation quickly gained momentum. Kima was named Best Specialty Coffee of Spain in 2024 and ranked in the top 100 coffee destinations worldwide by Neodrinks in 2025. Rabi works exclusively with 100% Arabica specialty coffee, hand roasting each batch and selecting from a wide range of origins that includes rare varietals like Geisha from Colombia and Wild Orchid Liberica from Vietnam. An in house academy trains professionals from the hospitality sector, with baristas traveling to Malaga specifically for the courses. The philosophy is direct: flavor, traceability, zero artifice.

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