Elizabeth González Washed Castillo

About This Coffee

For the last two years, we've booked LaREB lots that arrive with the summer container - those very same lots that will be in the process of harvesting and milling now. But we found ourselves looking at the buying calendar and seeing some gaps open up, between a jam-packed summer (we may have got excited and overbooked...) and the end of the winter/spring seasons, and sure enough there was some coffee left arriving from Scenery pals LaREB. Having felt a bit funk heavy at times, we loved how this lot stood out as sweet, clean and the sort of thing you could absolute pound mugs of batch from - a little bit of extra acidity and complexity from the longer processing, but underneath, clean sweet high altitude Castillo as is the classic tradition. Much like we selected this coffee blind from the intrinsic cup qualities - without knowing anything of the extrinsic story behind it - so too is Elizabeth González a new participant in the CDNT/LaREB project. Catching up with Herbert before release, we'll quote his words as he said them: '[Elizabeth] is a new producer in CDNT. This lot was a surprise, completely unexpected. Not normal for an everyday producer to come over with a coffee that good. [Her] coffee is textbook CDNT, though' We agree with Herbert - clean, sweet, and indeed without funk/process character that oft drives some of the other parts of our offer. Our first time purchasing from Elizabeth, but we hope for sure not the last.