Jairo Arcila - Castillo [natural decaf] filter roast

Jairo Arcila - Castillo [natural decaf] filter roast

This is a delicious natural decaf from Jairo. It has flavours of peach, passionfruit & cherry cola…… 

Roasted in H- town 16 JUL 2026
    $28.00
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    About the farmer(s)

    Jairo Arcila - Castillo [natural decaf] — Colombia

    This coffee was grown by Jairo at his farm Santa Monica. The cherries from these Caturra trees were hand-picked at optimum ripeness, then transported on the same day to "La Pradera" [a mill owned by Jairo's son Carlos] for processing. The coffee cherries were floated and hand-sorted to remove defects, dry fermented for 45 hours & then dried on raised "African" beds in temperature-controlled conditions until the moisture was reduced to around 11%.

    Jairo’s Castillo has been decaffeinated using the Sugar Cane Ethyl Acetate process. Sugarcane is fermented to create ethyl acetate. The coffee is steamed which opens the pores, soaked in ethyl acetate & water. [ethyl acetate binds with caffeine & removes it]. The beans are then steamed to remove any residual ethyl acetate & then dried to around 11% moisture. Due to the abundance of sugar cane in Colombia, this decaffeination process can be done locally without having to send the green coffee to North America or Europe for processing.

    • region Quindio
    • farm/farmer Santa Monica
    • altitude 1400-1500 meters
    • crop 2026
    • cultivar Castillo
    • process Natural Decaf

    This lot is 100% Castillo developed by CENICAFE [the Colombian coffee research facility] & released in 2005. It was bred from Caturra & Hybrido de Timor. It is highly resistant to disease & is now the most planted cultivar in Colombia.

    Sorting coffee cherries.

    Jairo Arcila on the farm.

    Coffee drying at La Pradera.