Strawberry | Blueberry | Lemon

• Origin: Costa Rica
• Farmers: Luis Alberto and Oscar Monge
• Process: Black Honey
• Variety: Gesha
• Altitude: 2000m
• 200g Bag

Brothers Luis Alberto and Oscar Monge have been making some of the most interesting coffees I’ve ever tasted in Costa Rica. On my first trip there in 2012, we tasted a coffee from them that we would go on to use to represent Canada in the World Barista Championships. We are excited to share another exemplary coffee from these men, a Gesha was processed as black honey. After depulping, the coffee was moved to dry on raised beds in the open air where the remaining mucilage took on a blackish colour, which is where the term black honey gets its name.

The La Lia marries all the flavours we love about the Gesha variety, floral aromas and a citrusy acidity, with flavours of strawberry and blueberry imparted by the black honey process.