My Morning Allama – Sample

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.

This irresistible arabica coffee is known as Colombia ‘Dulima’. It was developed in 2009 to embody the essence of top-class south Huilan coffee. The name comes from the local Tolima volcano; indigenous people nearby called it ‘Dulima,’ meaning Snow Queen. We think it’s a great name for this awesome coffee – it hints at just how COOL it is. The groovy kinda cool. Not the chilly sort.

Huila is one premium coffee-growing region. It’s famous for being the first department in Colombia to start coffee production, plus its second-to-none coffee growing conditions. High altitudes? Check. Mountainous landscape? Check? And mineral-rich soil the arabica trees love? That’s another big ‘check’ right there! All this combines to give coffees known for their sweetness-acidity balance and beautiful flavour. Don’t miss it – try this Snow Queen coffee now!

Every coffee that we source and roast is speciality coffee. For a coffee to become speciality, it must obtain a quality score of 80 points or above. A process known as coffee cupping is used to find this score. No score, no name. Want to know more about the process of cupping? Well, it’s your lucky day! We’ve written a simple to follow guide all about coffee cupping.

During the roasting process, we will never ‘over roast’. When we roast, we use this as a way of showing off the flavours and aromas of the coffee rather than hiding them. If a coffee is roasted too dark, this can hide some of the natural flavours and aromas and create a coffee with a bitter and burnt taste.

As the coffee we source is of high quality, there is nothing to hide. We can bring out the flavours rather than trying to hide them. All our coffees have a natural sweetness, rather than a burnt or bitter taste.

The coffees we source are all unique from one another. For instance, the altitude the coffee is grown at makes a huge difference to the natural taste. Across the globe, the farmers we source our coffee beans from are constantly working hard to ensure they are giving us a great product. In honour of their work, we also work hard to produce a product our customers will love.

Roast Style: Medium/Dark

Location: Huila

Varietal(s): Castillo, Caturra, Colombia

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1500m – 2000m

Country: Colombia

Certification: Speciality

Score: 84

What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.

Everyone who drinks speciality coffee from us is supporting coffee farmers in its country of origin.  We always pay between 30 and 150% more than the ‘going rate’ for our green coffee. We do this so the farmers get more revenue for their crops.  This results in the opportunity for better living conditions and an even better harvest next year.

When it comes to the supply chain, we like to keep this as short as possible too. Keeping it short means that more can be given back to the workers and their farms.

So keep it up. You really are helping.

We all need something groovy to get us up in the morning. Flavour-packed coffee, a good stretch, a brrring-ing alarm clock…

Hmm, noisy alarm? That’s no fun. How about an allama instead?! 🦙