New Penguin-ings Decaffeinated Coffee Sample
Remember chocolate limes? Well, here’s the coffee alternative! Sweet, smooth and with a hint of blood orange too – groovy! Try a 50g sample in the grind of your choice today.
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Counting Chimps, it is your turn.
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Tastes Like
Remember chocolate limes? Here’s a coffee that tastes just like them! It’s sweet and smooth, with a little blood orange joining in the fun. Groovy!
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How to Brew
While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are an espresso machine, Aeropress & moka pot.
If you want to know more, see our brew guides for making coffee.
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Behind the Scenes
We source these awesome speciality beans as directly as possible from coffee farmers in Argelia, Colombia. This coffee-growing town is located towards the southwest of the country, in the Department of Cauca. Argelia’s population have witnessed a great amount of unrest in past years. Now, however, they are looking forward to brighter days bolstered by their coffee crops.
The Siruma Coffee exporters are based in Colombia and are currently supporting the farmers in Argelia. Siruma is a female-run coffee exporter and is helping the coffee farming families by supporting a funding project. This important project supports five coffee associations (incorporating around 220 families) through training and education. On average, producers taking part in the training and delivering their coffee to Siruma receive more than the local rate for their fantastic beans.
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Scores on the Doors
Speciality coffee receives a score to gain its speciality title. Coffee cupping is the name of the tasting process that decides this score. Certified Q Graders experience the coffee in strict conditions and award points for aspects such as aroma, acidity and mouthfeel. When tallied up, these points give us the coffee’s overall score. Don’t add up to 80? Then you’ve got a sub-standard commodity coffee. 80 points or more? Then you’ve got an awesome coffee with speciality status! Want to know more? Check out our coffee cupping guide.
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Roasting
Speciality coffees are full of flavour, whether they are rich, chocolatey cups or fruity coffees reminding you of summer. Coffee this (naturally) good takes skill and effort; only the best coffee farmers grow these groovy beans! As coffee-lovin’ coffee roasters, we want to make the farmers proud and put all the awesome coffee flavours centre stage.
Small batch roasting is how our magic comes about. Roasting by hand in 12kg batches ensures every roast is perfectly tailored, while regular roasting (we’re talking multiple times each week) means every Two Chimps bag is fresh, fresh, fresh! All of our coffees are different, so we build bespoke roast recipes to suit each bean. And we never over roast, never ever. Over-roasting is a cheeky way of masking the nasty flavours in low-grade beans and gives a bitter edge to the final cup. We only source the ripest, best-tasting beans, so there’s no need to roast them up to their eyeballs. Perfect roast for a perfect, naturally sweet flavour… that’s Two Chimps!
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The Decaffeination Process
These speciality decaf beans are decaffeinated by the sugar cane decaffeination process. Sugar cane is readily available in Colombia and this process decaffeinates your coffee using an organic compound found in the sugar cane crop. The compound is derived from a clever mix of acetic acid (more commonly known as vinegar!) and a natural extract distilled from the sugar cane.
So, how does it work? First off, decaf specialists steam the green beans to open up their pores and enable the caffeine extraction. The natural sugar cane solution then rinses repeatedly over the beans to dissolve their caffeine. A pure water wash comes next, before the beans are partially dried until 10-12% humidity remains.
This natural decaffeination method gives a pretty dandy decaf. Why? It’s all down to the absence of excess heat and pressure which, if present, would disturb the bean’s cellular structure.
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The Nuts and Bolts
Roast Style: Medium/Medium Dark
Varietal(s): Mixed
Decaffeinated processing method: Sugar cane decaffeination
Altitude: 1700-2000 metres above sea level
Country: Colombia
Certification: Speciality
What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.
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Why buy speciality coffee from us?
We pay between 30 and 150% more for our coffee than the going rate. This ensures that the farmers receive the support, training, facilities and income they deserve for producing such amazing coffee.
We couldn’t do it with you, so thank you for choosing Two Chimps Coffee!
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Where does the name come from?
Like a new beginning, but better because there are penguins involved. Awesome.
