[64] Colombia - Quebraditas Advanced Natural Gesha [CROP 24/25 ARCHIVE]

This intense & wild high intervention lot ran for 2 weeks around the 2025 London Coffee Festival after we airfreighted it over. Potent, headturning and a great demonstration of what modern techniques can achieve.

Coffees from Edinson Argote & his partner Luz Ángela Rojas have swiftly become firm favourites for the highest tier of technical intervention on our offer sheet. Edinson has taken the skillset he learned working at Granja Paraiso 92 and really driven Quebraditas through a stratospheric rise in notoriety, and we're stoked to have been an early part in promoting his work.

Having wanted a stand-out coffee for London Coffee Festival, we asked Edinson - we're keen to represent Quebraditas, what've you got? He put a set of outrageous samples forward - and here we are, what a stunner

Part of our LCF special release series.

Brew Guide:

Best Brewed with: Filter

Lightest Roaster Influence: Mega high processing intervention made this one of our lowest end temperatures yet - chasing clarity and acidity, without high process character.

Best Rested: 3-4 weeks

Filter: 60g/L & 95°C, with rest we like to move down to 60g/L & 92°C

Espresso: Turbo shots + 3 weeks rest. 18g/50g+ & 20s - we prefer when this coffee is more dilute

We’re tasting: Aromatics of lemon tart, limoncello and parma violets. In the cup - incredibly sweet, the process character reminding us of lemon drizzle cake soaked in limoncello syrup, with flavours unfolding like gummy peach rings, citrus blossom, pomelo, stem ginger syrup, lemongrass & cardamon. As it cools, there's a hint of citra hoppiness that reminds us of a washed Yirgacheffe.

Traceability

The Story

Phew! We’re knackered. What an amazing time slinging brews, sinking pints and catching up with everyone over 4 crazy days at the Truman brewery. For those of you who were able to make it over, you might well have tried that bonkers competition lot we flew over from the absolute legends Edinson Argote and his partner Luz Angela, who we were stoked to meet up with a few months back at the Alltogether brewing event in Manchester.

For context, a few months ago we asked Edinson via Jonny if we could represent Quebraditas at the London Coffee festival, and if so - would he be up for sending something from the trials he’s been working on? A few weeks back a set of naughty samples arrived and we picked the Hydro Natural / Yeast Inoculated Gesha to serve at LCF, one of the competition grade range that Edinson has been developing.
We’re not surprised his coffees took both 1st and 2nd place in the most recent US brewers cup and 2nd place in US barista. Wouldn’t be surprised at some podium finishes at Worlds soon enough.

But it was so hard to choose, so we’ve got our 2nd and 3rd favourite lots all coming via sea with the next container. Couldn’t help ourselves - just too good

We’ve a tiny handful of small batches remaining to go so we don’t expect this lot to be around for long

Quebraditas 

Orphaned and working from age 11, Edinson Argote found coffee after his military service at a Colombian buying station. He mastered quality control and fermentation techniques while running QC at a major Piendamó farm, then launched Quebraditas - an 8-hectare farm planted with exotic varieties. His girlfriend Luz Angela's family already had a traditional 10-hectare farm called Chorro Alto. While Quebraditas is still young, Edinson's processing knowledge has proven vital in his partnership with El Jaragual, helping establish it as speciality coffee's newest standout producer.

Colombia's position as the epicentre of experimental processing continues evolving — knowledge spreading beyond initial pioneers into a wider network of skilled producers. We're seeing more variety offered in these high technical intervention lots, and even the spread outside of Colombia (We've seen in the previous few months producers in Peru, India and Ethiopia start to deploy these techniques).

We were stoked to be on the first wave of roasters offering coffee from Edinson and Luz - his Gesha was a standout of the 2024 offer. Meeting Edinson and Luz Angela at Manchester's Altogether Brewing event was a brilliant moment of connection and we're stoked to keep promoting their work.