Luis Octavio Titimbo – Borbon Aji Filter
$27–$88
Luis Octavio Titimbo – Borbon Aji Filter
$27–$88
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- Producer Luis Octavio Titimbo
- Attributes double fermented (cherry + depulped), but clean and sparkling
- Origin Bruselas, Huila, Colombia
- Flavours peach & strawberry leaf. Sweet, bright and crisp.
We first met Luis Octavio Titimbo in 2016, and we’ve been buying coffee from him ever since! We’ve been increasingly featuring his coffee over this last 12 months, a result of both of new plantings (pink borbon and borbon aji varieties), and of enhanced fermentation practices.This lot hails from Luis’s parcel of 5000 “borbon aji” plants, which he grows under the shade of native cachingo, at an altitude of around 1760 metres.He has the “tall” version of this variety, which despite appearances, we know now to not be a borbon after all. ( The variety gained its name as producers found that cherries from these trees had an aroma and colour reminiscent of chilli (aji means “chili” in Spanish). DNA testing in fact shows that it’s genetically distinct from ancestor seeds carried to the Americas centuries ago and is in fact a newly discovered Ethiopian Landrace, not a borbon at all.This September 2024 purchase is fermented as intact cherry for 24 hours, and is then depulped and fermented (without water) in sealed plastic bags until it’s ready to wash (50-60 hours).Pricing transparency: We purchased parchment coffee directly from Luis and transferred pesos Colombiano straight to his association’s bank account upon receipt of parchment at our chosen mill. We paid $4,100,000 pesos per carga (125 kg of parchment coffee, this is the unit farmers sell their coffee in) for this lot. This lot is from August/ September 2024 harvest and arrived Melbourne in November 2024.
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- Roasted for filter brewing.We ship coffee as whole beans by default, if you need your coffee ground, please let us know at the checkout.