Our latest decaf coffee and we're sticking with the Sugarcane EA method but this time from the Tolima region of Colombia. Nestled between the Andean mountains on the west and the Magdalena river basin, Tolima is a rather remote and hard to access area. Its geography and topography is however very favourable for the culture of coffee and the region accounts for 12% of the countries annual production. Tolima is the third largest coffee producing region of Colombia. Coffee is a family business in Tolima comprised of many small farms managed and operated between families and friends.

It is decaffeinated using Ethel Acetate, a natural by-product of fermented sugar-cane, which bonds with the soluble caffeine compounds in the coffee and allows them to be stripped from the green beans. Not every coffee holds up in the decaffeination process, and not all processes are created equal.

The coffee beans first undergo steaming at low pressures to remove the silver skins. They are then moistened with hot water to allow the beans to swell and soften. This step prepares the coffee for the hydrolysis of caffeine, which is attached to the salts of the chlorogenic acids within the coffee. The moistened coffee is washed several times with ethyl acetate solvent (EA). In the case of sugar-cane decaf, the ethyl acetate is naturally obtained from the fermentation of sugar cane grown in Colombia and not from chemical synthesis. Once the caffeine is reduced to the desired level, the beans are cleaned to remove the remaining EA and dried to between 10–12%.

Planadas De Tolima Decaf

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Planadas De Tolima Decaf

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Planadas De Tolima Decaf