It is at all times an important day when our Direct Business companions forestall via! Closing week, we had been privileged to have Nando and Chiqui Diaz of Finca Santa Ana discuss with.
Now we have been venerated to spouse with Finca Santa Ana since 2019, after being presented to them via our sister corporate, Chicken Rock Espresso Roasters. Now we have now visited Finca Santa Ana various occasions through the years—you’ll be able to discover a recap of our 2023 discuss with right here! We had been overjoyed to listen to that Nando and Chiqui can be preventing via the Roasting Co. after SCA Expo in Chicago.
PT’s Leader Working Officer Brent Piepergerdes and Nando Diaz wasted no time catching up and discussing the historical past of our warehouse.
Amusing reality: throughout International Conflict II our warehouse used to be house to the United States Air Drive’s army missile manufacturing. A limiteless distinction from the espresso that’s now roasted right here!
Right through the excursion, at Nando’s request, Mike leads Chiqui and Nando over to a barrel of inexperienced decaf espresso beans. As Mike places it, “This [Dur Feres Natural Swiss Water Process] Decaf…if I didn’t understand it used to be decaf, I might by no means know.”
Nando used to be fast to identify inexperienced espresso baggage from Finca Santa Ana, like his Pineapple Procedure, pointing them out to Chiqui with a grin.
This experimental procedure comes to fermenting round 70 contemporary pineapples for 48 hours, which is then included into the depulped espresso in massive fermentation tanks. This combination sits for every other 48 hours or so ahead of the espresso is tired after which washed. This additional fermentation accentuates the espresso’s herbal sweetness and juicy tones, in flip yielding a round-bodied espresso with aromas of almond brittle and clover blossom.
After finishing a excursion of the warehouse, it used to be time to place the cupping lab to just right use!
Whilst in Chicago for Expo, Nando gave us quite a lot of inexperienced espresso samples to deliver house. Mike pattern roasted 9 other varietals from Santa Ana and within reach farms—Pacamara, Mokka, Bourbon, and extra—after coming back from Chicago, and now it used to be time to cup them!
They waste no time and get instantly to cupping—starting with dry perfume, smelling the aroma after filling every bowl with water, breaking the crust at 4 mins, and starting to slurp at 12 mins.
You could realize that the pattern espresso baggage are became face down throughout this cupping. Why do that? As a result of Nando sought after to style the entire coffees with out being influenced via the varietal or processing manner.
After cupping the primary around of samples, it’s off to our homeland cafe, Wheatfield Village, for a fast lunch ruin. Whilst we had been there, Nando and Chiqui had been as soon as once more excited to peer a bag of Finca Santa Ana Pineapple Procedure, this time at the retail shelf!
We like roasting Nando’s espresso and our shoppers obviously love consuming it! We’re excited to peer which of the a lot that we tasted finally end up in our espresso lineup sooner or later!
