Blacksmith Espresso

This traditional washed coffee has undergone 16-18 hours of fermentation. A blend made up of coffee beans from 120+ smallholders in Jericó, a small Catholic town and home to Colombia's first saint: María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui, known simply as Mother Laura. Each lot for this blend has been cupped regularly to ensure a balanced profile and a result that producers felt best represented the region. Jericó, a scenic “heritage village” three hours southwest of Medellin, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province, is the base for Campesino Coffee’s warehouse. A Colombian specialty company, Campesino provides growers with access to the specialty market through the support channels that sustain them at the farm-level and hands-on direction: feedback, analysis, micro-loans for infrastructure, even a coffee school. The school, run from the warehouse, serves as a site of coffee education aimed at helping farmers to increase their quality scores, as well as encouraging youth to return to their coffee roots and family coffee traditions. Campesino also operates a main office and lab in Medellin. Considered the coffee cradle of Colombia, Antioquia located in the country’s central northwest, produces more volume than any other region.