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Los Vecinos

Los Vecinos

Tasting Notes
  • caramel fudge
  • lemon thyme
  • milk chocolate
Field Notes

First Purchase2020

ProcessingWashed

CountryColombia

Crop YearNovember 2024

ImporterOsito

VarietiesColombia and Castilo

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Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours. Los Vecinos is curated by Diego and Derlin, selecting wonderful local producers to contribute to a community lot. The neighbourhood of El Pital is littered with experienced producers who often are forced to sell uncontracted coffee to the local market for a fraction of its value. We have a need for clean and sweet Colombian coffee all year round so we requested that Diego jump on his pushbike, cruise the hood, knock on some doors and see if anyone has any extra coffee. Smallholder cooperatives we work with in Africa sell ripe cherry to be processed; in Colombia, Diego purchases dry parchment ready for export. Producers in Colombia often control the entire process, with their own wet mills and drying infrastructure, and by completing this themselves producers receive a larger slice of the pie. The coffee Diego collects is taken to the dry mill before export and blended together to create the community lot, Los Vecinos. Blend isn't a bad word, technically coffee from more than a single tree is essentially a blend. The benefits of blending are numerous: it increases volume, adds complexity, and minimises wasted coffee. This year's vintage has a sweet caramel fudge and milk chocolate with a bright lemon zest acidity. We welcome the idiosyncrasy and quirkiness this coffee offers, you can find the perfect blend.

Did you know 20c from every kilogram of coffee roasted and every cup sold goes to The Cup That Counts.

Diego Campos & Derlin Roa

Country: Colombia

Diego and Derlin are the husband-and-wife duo behind Diamanté, a small-scale coffee farm in Colombia. Learn more

Elias Roa & Bellani Sanchez

Country: Colombia

It was a stroke of luck that we crossed paths with Don Elias Roa and Doña Bellani Sanchez, two of the finest specialty coffee farmers in Colombia. Learn more

La Plata, Huila

1950 MASL

El Pital, Huila

1750 MASL

ESPRESSO 1
Dose
: 20     Yield: 44    Time: 26 secs
Ratio: 1:2.2     Roast Date: +7
Notes: A pretty versatile coffee. I like this coffee a little more drawn out. This type of extraction lightens the chocolate note and you get a nice milk chocolate and the subtle lemon thyme freshness. You could increase the contact time to 28 seconds or so and get some more sticky date flavours and more cut through if serving with milk.
- Tommy, 24 January 2025

ESPRESSO 2
Dose
: 21     Yield: 45    Time: 27 secs
Ratio: 1:2.1     Roast Date: +12
Notes: We were really chasing the lemon thyme this morning. We ended up with a super sweet super clean pour, if you wanted to have more lemon and not lemon thyme, take 2-3g off the yield. But, don't take the contact time down too much as you lose some clarity. Still wish it was a natural though smh.
- Jari, 05 February 2025



POUR OVER
Dose
: 20g     Water: 300ml      Temp: 100°C     Bloom: 60ml     Total Time: 02:45     Ratio: 1:15     Roast Date: +8
Pour 1: 60ml @: 00:30     Pour 2: 60ml @: 01:00     Pour 3: 120ml @: 01:30
Notes: The classic GHB panther pour recipe for this one. Make your pours based on the water reaching ¼ full, rather than just time. This should be right around the 25-35 second mark. If your bed is dry and exposed your grind is probably too coarse, if it is taking way longer it is probably too fine. Tasting like straight caramel, doing exactly what the card says.
- Alex, 22 January 2025

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