Cola, Dried Cherry, Milk Chocolate
$23
We have been sourcing coffee from Bolivia for more than a decade, virtually all of it from the traditional coffee region of Caranavi in the rugged Andes near the capital La Paz. This coffee comes from the emerging specialty region of Samaipata, near Bolivia's thriving second city Santa Cruz, where the Andes meet the Amazon. This is the second consecutive season we have sourced this Java varietal grown by our oldest direct trade partner in Bolivia, the Rodríguez family.
Marked by the playful zing of orange, the homey essence of raw sugar, and the luxuriously smooth undertones of milk chocolate.
We recommend starting with a 1:18 coffee-to-water ratio, which provides an excellent total extraction level and maximizes flavor pulled out of the ground coffee. For our single origin coffees we recommend a pour over method either on a Chemex, V60 or Kalita Wave on a 5 or 6 grind setting if you are ordering from intelligentsia.com.
Recommended Method Pour Over
What Bolivia lacks in quantity it is making up for in quality: it may export precious little coffee, but its exports include a growing number of lots that are nothing short of extraordinary.
Read storyIntelligentsia coffee buyers travel year-round working with a network of farmers. From the farm, coffee arrives at the roasting works in Chicago, where coffee professionals cup, grade, and release over 50 single-origins and blends annually.
Intelligentsia Direct Trade means partnering with people who obsess about quality as much as we do, and building meaningful relationships with farmers. Today, the Intelligentsia Direct Trade community includes more than 50 partners in 14 countries.
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