Black and White Esteban Zamora - Anaerobic
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ROAST | LIGHT MEDIUM
ORIGIN | EL RODEO, SAN MARCOS, TARRAZU, COSTA RICA
NOTES | CINNAMON, LEMON SHORTBREAD, CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
Something we have begun to look forward to every year is the release of a Cinnamon Anaerobic coffee from Costa Rica. Esteban Zamora is a mechanical engineer by training who comes from a family of coffee producers. He and his brothers, Felipe and Jacob, grow and process coffee together at their 5-hectare plantation and wet mill in addition to processing coffees for nearby families. We commissioned this coffee from Esteban, promising to pay for the coffee he fermented with cinnamon. We hope this begins a long-term relationship of commissioned coffees with increasingly ambitious experimentation.
Historically, coffees from the El Cedro farm (managed by Esteban and Felipe) have been washed or honey process and received respectable cupping scores, but have not brought quite a high enough selling price. Working with us to produce this cinnamon coffee has brought a more sustainable price point to Esteban and the families he works with. Esteban was even willing to share his technique with us!
Fresh coffee cherries are brought to La Cruz wet mill where the fruit is pulped but mucilage is not washed off of the seed. Everything other than the cascara (coffee cherry skin) is added to grainpro bags and combined with 1 kilo of cinnamon powder for every 46 kilos of coffee cherry. This mixture ferments in an anaerobic environment for 6 days before being moved to concrete patios to begin drying. The drying process is finished in stationary mechanical dryers at the mill. Reactions between the cinnamon powder and the mucilage form a seal around the coffee seed, making it harder to dry and requiring the use of mechanical dryers.
On the cupping table, this coffee has a super creamy body and pastry-like complexity. Cinnamon is the pronounced first note, as it should be. But there is also a nice, sweet acidity we're describing as lemon shortbread. We are grateful to have been a part of bringing this exceptional coffee into the world and we are excited for you to try it.
| Roast degree | Light |
| Сafein free | No decaf |
| Cupping Notes | Sour |
| Availability | In stock |
Black and White Coffee Roasters
“I used to think that I had dedicated 17 years of my life to Specialty Coffee. I’ve come to realize, through the origin of Black & White Coffee Roasters, I’ve been dedicating my life to quality relationships. From coffee cultivation, coffee processing, coffee roasting and coffee preparation, it is the synergy of collaborative relationships and modernized innovation that builds a sustainable community across the entire coffee value chain.” -Lem Butler
Black & White Coffee Roasters started as an idea that developed over a decade of hard work and dedication to understanding the coffee value chain in two parts:
- To create opportunities for coffee professionals to expand their careers
- To make Specialty Coffee more approachable to the masses
This idea turned reality in 2017 when U.S. Barista Champions Kyle Ramage and Lem Butler formed Black & White Coffee Roasters. Envisioned to be more than just a quality coffee roaster, we aim to change the competitive landscape, not by being “better” than our competitors, but by pushing the craft forward through collaboration. Our coffee sourcing and roasting experience comes from over a decade of studying coffee processing first hand from coffee producers all over the world; understanding coffee consumers through years of experience working in cafes; working for a large coffee roasting company as a wholesale account manager; experience as a coffee equipment manufacturer sales and tech rep; and volunteering, competing in coffee competitions all over the world.
It is our journey, and the community we’ve built along the way that makes Black & White Coffee possible. Understanding that none of this would be possible without fostering great relationships, and continuing to pay that generosity forward is what shaped B&W’s core values: service, community and excellence. This is how we approach our mission of “Exceptional Coffee Kept Simple”.
We roast in a way to showcase each coffee’s unique quality, and to honor the extremely difficult work of cultivation, making that work so special to our customers that coffee quality becomes important to their success. B&W coffee sourcing and roasting becomes our wholesale partners’ real valued choice.
We aren’t trying to change the way you think about coffee, rather we hope to change how you see yourself within the coffee value chain. Producer, Roaster, Barista or Consumer— we are all in this together. Coffee is steeped in a rich tradition of relationships, relationships are the fabric of community and community is key to an evolving industry.
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