Valle del Cauca Decaf
Sugarcane decaf with body and sweetness: an evening coffee that tastes like coffee.
- Roaster
- Superthing Coffee
- Origin
- Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 1,750 m, various small farms; Castillo and Caturra
- Process
- Decaf
- Roast level
- Medium
- How to drink it
- Either
Sweet and balanced with real body and some fruit, which is the point of sugarcane processing: it keeps a decaf tasting like the rest of a roaster's single-origin menu rather than like a compromise.
Superthing's line on it is that sometimes you want coffee without taking yourself to the limit, and it works on espresso or filter. There is some history in it too: Valle del Cauca was once a major coffee region, and much of that land now grows sugar cane — the same crop the decaffeination process comes from. Conservation International has identified the region as one of Colombia's two main conservation corridors.
What to do with it
HotChemexHario V60Yeti RamblerAeroPressAeroPress XLMoccamaster
- Water temperature
- Slightly cooler than a caffeinated bean, around 198-203F.
- Time
- As written. As espresso, 25-30 s, expecting a faster flow at the same grind.
- Grind
- One step coarser than the Dogspeed numbers: the decaffeination opens the bean up and it extracts faster.
- Dose and ratio
- 1:16 to 1:17. As espresso, 18 g in and 36 g out.
How to drink it. Either way. Black it holds its sweetness and body better than most decafs; as an evening espresso or cortado it behaves like a regular medium roast. No sugar needed.
Where to buy: superthingcoffee.com
Brewed with
The recipes this bag is marked good for. Each of them says which roast its numbers assume, and what to change if yours is different.
- AeroPress XL pot AeroPress XL · Hot
- AeroPress single cup AeroPress · Hot
- Chemex 500 g Chemex · Hot
- Chemex 800 g Chemex · Hot
- Flash brew Chemex 800 g Chemex · Flash brew
- Hario V60 pot Hario V60 · Hot
- Hario V60 single cup Hario V60 · Hot
- Yeti Rambler single cup Yeti Rambler · Hot
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