Mexico Familia Caranza Natural Anaerobic - Filter

Mexico Familia Caranza Natural Anaerobic - Filter

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• Producers + Mill:

Gaudencio Carranza is a descendant of the first Me'phaa people who planted coffee in Colombia de Guadalupe, a municipality in the Montaña Alta region of Guerrero. Coffee is in his blood, and for 18 years, he has shared this passion with his wife, Francisca Mejía Barrera, and their three sons: Luis, Juan Carlos, and Geovany Carranza. Now, the family produces an exceptional natural coffee.

The Carranza Mejía family owns an extensive and thriving agricultural estate. Coffee is just one of the many products they grow on their nearly 10 hectares, spread across five farms: Cocoyul, Bordo de Santa Cruz, Plan de Carranza, El Mango, and Pie Mosquito.

These farms are like edible forests, rich in biodiversity. In the coffee fields, they practice traditional polyculture, where coffee grows alongside timber trees and more than 30 species of food crops, including fruits, vegetables, and legumes

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• Variety:

Typica (also Tipica) forms the genetic backbone of much of specialty coffee today. The first coffee plantations grown in America and Asia were of the Typica variety and many of the most widely cultivated C. arabica crops today are descended directly from the plant.

In general, Typica is very similar in appearance to the Bourbon plant (of which it is a very close relative) although it has fewer secondary branches and the leaves are normally smaller than those of Bourbon. It is usually identifiable by its bronze leaf tips. The plants are tall (3.5 – 4m) and the berries have an elongated, oval shape.

Even though Typica has a relatively low yield it is known to produce coffee with high cup quality. It is, however, very susceptible to diseases and is becoming increasingly less common for this reason. (Info source: Mercanta)

Bourbon coffee variety dates back to the 1700s when French missionaries first introduced it on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean. The island is called Réunion today and the missionaries moved on to Latin America in the middle of the 1800s. It was first grown in Brazil around 1860 and cultivation spread from there throughout Latin America. Because the standard Bourbon variety is susceptible to coffee leaf rust, it does best at higher altitudes at or above 1,800 meters where leaf rust is less likely to occur. Bourbon produces a tall coffee plant, excellent coffee, and medium to low production. It much of Latin America, basic Bourbon has been replaced by offshoots such as Caturra, Catuai, and Mundo Novo.

But around Huila Colombia in the Andes Mountains, growers still specialize in growing Bourbon coffee and a cross-bred variety, pink Bourbon.Pink Bourbon gets its name from the fact that the ripe berries are pink instead of red. Coffee farmers around Huila, Colombia produce the variety by cross-breeding yellow and red Bourbon. It has greater resistance to leaf rust than either the yellow or red variety.

Mundo Novo is a natural hybrid of Typica sub-varieties, Sumatra and Bourbon. Discovered in Brazil in the 1940s by the Instituto Agronômico de Campinase, the plant is strong, tall (3 m) and resistant to diseases and strong wind. Due to these features and its good cup quality, Mundo Novo is one of the most common amongst Brazilian coffee cultivators, forming around 40% of all grown coffee varieties within the country.Mundo Novo’s productivity is high but its cherries ripen somewhat later than other varieties. Its best growing heights are between 1,050 to 1,670 metres above sea level, with rainfall of 1,200 to 1,800mm per annum.

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• Process:

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Region: Guerrero

Producers: The Carranza Family

Farm: The Carranza Family

Importer:Ensambles

Price (green ex Shipping): £16.50 pkg

Varieties: Typica, Bourbon, Mundo Novo

Process: Anaerobic Natural

Altitude: 1200-1400masl 

Amount Bought 70kg

Tasting: Fruity, Complex, Juicy, Medium Acidity, High sweetness

Flavours like: Cherry, Dark chocolate, Stone Fruit