About the coffee

Finca Veracruz is the smallest farm of the Santa Barbara estate, a group of 5 farms established in the 1980s by Sr. Pedro Echavarria in the department of Antioquia. In recent years, Pedro's son (also named Pedro) has become more involved in the running of the farm. With Leonardo Henao Triana, Santa Barbara's Coffee Director, they took the already high-quality coffees produced at Finca Veracruz to the next level with a mix of experimentation and increased monitoring of every stage of the production. This coffee is a blend of Colombia and Caturra cherries picked over five days. Each day, pulped cherries were added to a fermentation tank with the previous days pickings. With this method of "extended" fermentation, each consecutive batch is raising the ph (acidity) level of the fermentation tank, permitting longer fermentation times without tainting the coffee with acetic acid produced by bacteria at lower ph levels. Once washed, dried, milled, sorted, and carefully roasted, this coffee creates a juicy cup filled with tropical fruit and berry flavours. 

Single Origin (May2 2021)

At Perky Blenders, we like to think of ourselves as one big family. That’s because family is in the very foundations of our business: we were family-formed back in 2015 by brothers Tom and Adam Cozens, along with Adam’s wife, Victoria. And even back then, operating as a humble little coffee cart outside St James’ Street station, we had the same aims as we do now: to be responsible, friendly and accessible to all. It’s still us here. Hello. And though we’ve since stretched our latte-fuelled legs beyond that converted three-wheeled Piaggio Ape, we’re the same coffee up-and-comers waxing lyrical about single origin beans to the good people of Waltham Forest. A few years on, we now have four shops within the borough, and we supply our coffee to over 50 stores – including Wholefoods, the award-winning Eat17 Spar shops and big chill. In the last few years, we’ve been featured in the Indy Best’s ‘Best Coffee Subscription Services,’ and have recently won two Time Out Awards as the ‘Best Coffee Place’ within three London Postcodes. And we’ve opened our second roastery, with a state-of-the-art 20kg Petrocini Specialty Roaster that we’re pretty proud of, and plenty more space to swing cats/coffee sacks. When all this is over, we’d love you to drop by for a visit. These are strange times, but one bonus is that we’re meeting lots of friendly new (virtual) faces via the subscription side of our business.

Single Origin (May2 2021)

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Single Origin (May2 2021)