Ombligon Competition Lot - Thermal Shock Natural - Colombia

About the coffee:
Ombligon is the localized term used for this Ethiopian Landrace Variety. Ombligo is 'belly button' in Spanish, and is the reason why locals refer to this variety as the cherry has a belly. It is rare to find and there is talk that the variety arrived to Colombia from Central America, but there is no record of the precise provenance or date of arrival.

To say this coffee is rare is an understatement.

Nestor, and his brother Adrian partnered with Jhoan Vergara (son of a coffee farmer) to create the farm El Diviso, where Ombligon was grown. Collectively, their selection of varieties and meticulous processing and fermentation methods have resulted in some out-of-this-world coffees.
 
What makes it so special?
 
The coffee cherries are hand picked at their peak ripeness from the healthiest trees. Harvest is done in rain-free days to ensure high sugar content and minimal water presence. The cherries are disinfected with alcohol, floaters (aka defective cherries) are removed, and only the best cherries continue in the process.
 
Fermentation is done at room temperature for 30 hours in open plastic drums. After that, anaerobic fermentation takes place in closed plastic drums for 24 hours. Oxidation continues for 30 hours in tanks.
 
Then, cherries are placed in the BioMaster tank, allowing full control over the second anaerobic fermentation stage for 12 hours at a sustained consistent temperature. The final stage is submerging the cherries in warm water for 36 hours, adding mosto from the same Ombligon variety. This part of the process is what explodes the fruitiness in this coffee.
 
Cold water is used for the final quenching for 30 minutes to halter fermentation and kill microorganisms. It's a process designed to rapidly cool the coffee cherries.
 
In the drying process, coffee is dried in hermetically sealed stainless steal dehumidifiers, rests for 12 hours, and then continues drying for 16 hours until it reaches 11%. This drying process ensures consistency and quality batch to batch, which allows Nestor to achieve consistent batch flavors over and over again.
 
It's truly a masterpiece of a coffee.

Because our last release sold out so quickly, we're limiting purchases to one 80gram tin per person of this coffee. We will ship it out to you properly off-gassed and ready to be consumed immediately upon receiving it.
 
And... A very special bonus!
 
All LOCAL Phoenix purchasers are invited to a special private tasting of Ombligon with a few members of our team on Tuesday at 10am MST in our shop at 4626 N 16th St, Suite 101, Phoenix, AZ 85016. This is also the time you'll be able to pick up your tins (don't worry, if that time doesn't work for you, you can pick up anytime after that).
 
We'll talk about the coffee, explore the flavors, give some helpful brewing recipes, and more. It's very informal, but it's an opportunity to get acquainted with the coffee, learn a little about our process for selecting coffees, meet some of the team, etc...

We'd love to see you there!