Lychee YN05 Diego Bermudez Finca El Paraiso Cauca, Colombia Green Beans

Good Brother's Coffee

Details

Origin

Colombia

Process

Washed, Anaerobic

Roast Suitability

Description

------- WARNING! You are looking at Unroasted Green Raw Beans ------ PEACH RINGS • RED FRUIT • CANDY-LIKE Don't let the name fool you— “Lychee” is the name of this particular Y-05 processing profile, not necessarily a promise that your cup is going to taste like lychee. And honestly, we're not getting much lychee. What we are getting is an incredibly aromatic, high-sugar cup loaded with peach candy, red fruit and overt florals . The wet aroma is almost perfume-like, and there's a huge candy sweetness that immediately reminded us of peach rings , with flashes of something almost blue Kool-Aid-like in its intensity. As the cup develops, those louder candy and floral notes settle into juicy yellow and red fruit, with a creamy sweetness underneath. It's a strong, lingering coffee—the kind where the aroma and flavor seem to hang around long after the sip. This is another incredibly unique coffee from Diego Bermudez and Finca El Paraíso , a producer known for taking an unusually technical approach to coffee fermentation. The Castillo cherries are grown around 1,960 MASL and begin with a 72-hour anaerobic fermentation while submerged in water. After pulping and demucilaging, the coffee undergoes another controlled fermentation using El Paraíso's specifically developed “Yellow Fruit” yeast culture . The coffee then goes through their signature thermal-shock process , followed by controlled dehumidification drying. The entire process is designed to develop and preserve specific aromatic compounds while keeping the finished coffee clean and structured. And that's what makes Y-05 so interesting to us. This is unmistakably a process-forward coffee , but we don't find it too funky or boozy. Instead, the processing shows up as huge aromatics, intense sweetness and an almost candy-like concentration of fruit. Think peach rings, red fruit, perfume-like florals and an almost electric blue-candy sweetness , all wrapped up in a creamy, lingering finish. ORIGIN: Colombia PRODUCER: Finc