Boo! Modern Coffee Co.
Costa Rica - Don Alexis
Costa Rica - Don Alexis
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We partnered with Ground Coffee, a green coffee importer focused on Direct Trade and creating collective value, to bring you our first Costa Rican coffee!
Los Campos is a family owned farm founded by Alexis Ramirez, AKA Don Alexis, nested in the Los Santos region of Costa Rica. They recently made improvements on the farm, such as building their own micro-mill, helping them focus more on processing at the farm.
This lot is a beautiful bright and complex catuai, and one of the reason for it is its fermentation process, Carbonic Maceration. This is a process that was inspired by wine making, where the idea is to let the coffee sit in an airtight container before injecting it with CO2.
And in the case of this coffee, that fermentation goes on for a period of 4 days, before being sun-dried for about 30 days.
The fermentation process really plays a big role in this coffee, helping it achieve those deep, complex and fruity profile. You'll get loads of red fruits such as wild raspberries and black cherries followed by a long lasting dark chocolate finish. To us, it immediately reminded us of the famous German "Black Forest" cake!
We hope you'll get to enjoy it as much as we do!
To make our coffees more accessible, at Boo! we decided to only produce omni roast. That means that all of our coffees are meant to be used both as espresso or filter coffee. Follow our recipes at the bottom to get the best result with each coffee!
Country & region: Costa Rica, Los Santos
Farm: Los Campos
Producer: Don Alexis
Processing: Carbonic Maceration
Varietal: Catuai
Altitude: 1750m
Harvest: 2024
Sourced through: Grounds Coffee
Transparency report :
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FOB : 12,22€/Kg
FOB (Free On Board) price represents the cost of coffee when it leaves the exporting country. It includes the price paid to the farmer, transportation within the country, and the exporter's margin.
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Roasted coffee cost : 23,74€/Kg
This is our total cost for this coffee after being roasted. This contains the price of electricity, weight loss and packaging.
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Transportation cost :
This is the cost of transportation of green coffee from the origin country to us. This information is only displayed when we purchase directly from the producers or through an exporter in the same producing country.
Recommanded recipe :
For espresso :
If possible on your machine, we always recommend setting a pre-infusion of 5-10 seconds at lower pressure then ramping up to 9 bar for the rest of the extraction.
Our recipe for this coffee would be: 17g in and 40g out in about 26-28 seconds.
Enjoy your espresso!
For filter
Our filter recipes are based on a classic V60 size 01 with CAFEC abaca filters.
Amount of coffee : 15g
Grind size : medium
Water : 240g at 93°C
0:00 - Blooming - Pour 50g (gentle swirl when finished pouring)
0:45 - Circular pour to 100g
1:00 - Circular pour to 150g
1:15 - Circular pour to 200g
1:30 - Circular pour to 250, followed by a gentle swirl.
Drawdown should be around 2:15-2:30
Enjoy your filter coffee!