Edwin Enrique Noreña - Black Honey Gesha - Competition Series

About This Coffee

This coffee is from Finca Campo Hermoso in Armenia, Quindio Department, Colombia, grown at 1,800 meters altitude. Producer Edwin Noreña is a third-generation coffee grower, trained agronomist, and certified Q-grader. The Gesha variety undergoes black honey processing with carbonic maceration lactic fermentation. The process involves 72-hour fermentation to produce mossto, followed by pulping and another 72-hour fermentation using the mossto with selected lactic yeast cultures, then 10 days of natural drying in a parabolic dryer. Flavor notes include rose, hibiscus, watermelon, lychee, citrus, and a velvety body.

Origin

Quindío (Colombia)

Flavor Notes

Rose, Citrus Fruit, Watermelon

Roast Level

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Processing

Carbonic Maceration, Black Honey, Lactic Fermentation

Typology

Arabica

Red Gesha

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Little Waves Coffee Roasters

Little Waves Coffee Roasters grew out of Cocoa Cinnamon, a café founded in 2010 by Areli Barrera Grodski and Leon Grodski Barrera in the North Carolina mountains before the couple relocated to Durham in 2011. The dedicated roasting arm launched in June 2017 at the Lakewood location, using a Loring S15 Falcon that cuts energy consumption by 80 percent compared to conventional roasters. Little Waves is a Latina led, women forward company that prioritizes sourcing from women producers and farmers of color, maintaining multi year relationships built on fair pricing and mutual investment. In 2022, Roast Magazine named Little Waves its Micro Roaster of the Year, and co founder Areli was selected as a 2025 Sprudge Twenty honoree. The roastery was also featured in the Omnivore Apple TV docuseries, bringing wider attention to its model of equitable specialty coffee.

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