Colombia - Quebraditas Sidra Thermal Shock Washed [25/26]

Brew Guide:

Best Brewed with: Filter

Lightest Roaster Influence: Much cleaner than the advanced naturals, the thermal shock washed coffees respond well to super fast roasts but with a fraction more development time. As always, we try and roast these coffees for maximum aromatics and acidity, as they've oodles of natural sweetness. Compared to the Gesha, we find this coffee prefers a slightly longer overall roast time, but a lower end temperature

Best Rested: 3-4 weeks

Filter: 60g/L & 96°C, with rest we like to move down to 58g/L & 92°C

Espresso: Turbo shots + 3 weeks rest. 18g/48g+ & 20s - we prefer when this coffee is more dilute

We’re tasting: Intensely floral aromatics - wild rose & cherry blossom. In the cup it's lychee juice, elderflower cordial and muscat grapes, with an intense sweetness. As it cools the lychee and grape become more prominent, with gooseberry fool as well as hints of that classic Sidra herbality (and some thermal shock esters). Intensely sweet

Traceability

The Story

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.