Jairo Arcila - Papayo [natural] filter roast

Jairo Arcila - Papayo [natural] filter roast

This is a non-funky, sweet Papayo from Jairo, with flavours of lavender, strawberry & pink grapefruit.

Roasted in H-town 11 MAY 2026
      $38.00
      $38.00
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      About the farmer(s)

      Jairo Arcila - Papayo [natural] — Colombia

      This coffee was grown by Jairo at his farm Santa Monica. The cherries from these Papayo 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%.

      • region Quindio
      • farm/farmer Santa Monica
      • altitude 1450-1500 Meters
      • crop 2025
      • cultivar Papayo
      • process Natural

      This lot is 100% Papayo, a mutation found on a farm in Acevedo, Colombia. The fruit is the shape of a papaya & the cherries are orange when ripe. Initially thought to be a mutation of Caturra, DNA testing has found Papayo to be closer to Ethiopian Landrace cultivars.

      Jairo Arcila on the farm.

      Coffee drying at La Pradera.

      Jairo enjoying a coffee.

      Sorting coffee cherries.