San Augustine - Jhoan Vergara, Colombia

About This Coffee

Producer: Nestor Lasso and Jhoan Vergara looked at post-harvest processing in Acevedo, Huila and decided the small farmers around them were getting left behind on equipment they'd never afford alone. So they built a shared hub instead, and now every farmer who brings coffee through Peñas Blancas gets the same fermentation precision as anyone with money to burn. That's not charity, that's two guys deciding the tools shouldn't be the thing standing between a farmer and a great cup. Place: Colombia gets called the unfair origin because it genuinely has no business being this good at everything. Huila, Antioquia, Nariño, Tolima, 1,200 to 2,200 meters, harvesting nearly year-round. Some producers are running fermentation experiments that sound made up until you taste them. Others are quietly turning out microlots so clean and juicy they don't need any experiment at all. Both are Colombia.

Origin

Huila (Colombia) • Antioquia (Colombia) • Nariño (Colombia)

Flavor Notes

Caramelized, Malt Balls, Red Apple

Roast Level

Medium

Processing

Washed

Typology

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Torque Coffee

Nanelle and Andy Newbom founded Torque Coffee in San Diego in 2022, bringing roughly 25 years of combined experience in roasting, green coffee sales, and specialty coffee organizations, including co founding the Barista Guild of America. Nanelle handles 100 percent of the roasting on a Diedrich IR5, and no coffee leaves the roastery more than 48 hours after it was roasted. Torque operates a Proportional Pricing model in which producers receive a fixed percentage of the retail price: 20 percent on single bag purchases and 35 percent on wholesale. All paper products are recycled, FSC certified, and home compostable, wholesale deliveries use reusable canisters, and shipping mailers are made from limestone quarry waste. The roastery has earned multiple Golden Bean Awards.

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