X-VARIABLE MICROLOT #1: Colombian anaerobic natural Pacamara // sourced from our Colombian fam the Dulcey Family at Los Nacederos, El Tambo, Cauca.

The one they inherited.

We went to Colombia for the new harvest and a family reunion with the Dulcey family. Ten days at Los Nacederos in El Tambo, Cauca. We planted ten trees and dedicated them. We sat at a cupping table with the whole family and worked through the year's lots together.

These Pacamara trees are twelve years old. They were already standing when the family took the farm over. They didn't plant them. They found them, and learned how to work them.

This year they ran the lot anaerobic natural for roughly 240 hours. Ten days sealed off from oxygen. That is a long ferment by any standard, and it is where the blueberry comes from.

Pacamara is a 1958 cross out of El Salvador. Giant beans, unstable genetics, hard to keep consistent lot to lot. When it hits, nothing else tastes like it.

Tasting notes: Strawberry on the dry fragrance. Fermented blueberry once it's wet. Stewed fruit and prunes at the break. In the cup, blue candy fruit and chocolate, light on the body. Let it cool and mandarin comes forward.

When the whole family sat at that table and picked a favorite from the entire year, they picked this one. Mario's mom too.

14 kilos came home from Colombia in a checked bag. 69 bags exist. The smallest lot we have ever carried. There is no second shipment.

Origin: Los Nacederos, El Tambo, Cauca, Colombia
Producer: The Dulcey Family (Café Solo)
Varietal: Pacamara
Process: Anaerobic Natural, ~240 hours
Crop: 2026 harvest
SCA Score: 87
Lot: FRC003
This release: 14 kilos green, 69 bags

ABOUT THE X-VARIABLE SERIES

X is the variable.

In algebra X is what you solve for. The unknown. In this coffee X is every small decision that turned one seed into this exact cup.

240 hours instead of 200. Picked Tuesday instead of Friday. Dried on this bed, at this altitude, by these hands, in this family's care.

Change one and you get a different coffee. Not a worse one. A different one.

That is the producer working in concert with the Creator. In the lab. In the studio. God made a plant that answers back, and the farmer answers it.

The rarest of rare. The dopest of dope. The finest of fine. The cleanest of clean.

We're starting this series after ten days with our Afro Colombian partners in Popayán and El Tambo. It will be a limited run with them and with other producers we work alongside.

The color on this label is what the variable produced this time. Different lot, different color, same X.

This is what excites us most about life. The variable.

God don't make no junk, and the coffee don't need no cream.

Who the Dulceys are.

They came up as farmers, not as investors who opened a cafe. They sell their own roasted coffee out of a shop in their own neighborhood in Popayán. Not to tourists. To their neighbors, at specialty prices, in a country where most growers still sell parchment to intermediaries for whatever the going rate is that week.

They used last harvest to pull investment into the farm and clear their debt. Having done that, they decided to grow less coffee and make it better. That decision is why this lot exists.

On August 10th a 7.4 earthquake hit Colombia. Days later Cali suspended the 30th Petronio Álvarez, the biggest Black cultural festival in the country. Over 60 artists we're in community with lost their homes. This coffee comes from the same department those artists come from.