X-Stendo Clip // Extended Fermentation Natural X-Variable Microlot

X-VARIABLE MICROLOT | Lot FR005 | 8 oz / 227 g

The X-Stendo Clip. A super extended fermentation from the Café Solo Collective community.

Coffee fermentation is not new to Africa. It's not new to African peoples. It's not new to indigenous peoples. It's not new to our lineage, our heritage. In fact, coffee has always been a fermented food.

Extended fermentation is often credited as an innovation in the market. One of the things we learned during the Barista Exchange from Beamlak was that the Gurage people found out 500 years ago that they preferred the taste of it, innovated it, and were punished at export for it as a defect. Now the market has adopted what the origin already knew, 500 years late, and we're still missing the point.

The point isn't that we shouldn't celebrate innovation. It's that too often, because of our own preferences, lack of curiosity and blinders, aka too much sugar and cream, we miss out on the innovation and the innovators of it. We block our own opportunities for joy.

This coffee is in honor and celebration of that.

It comes from one of the Café Solo Collective community projects we were able to meet. It's outside of our usual project, but we definitely wanted to share it. Big shout out to them.

Origin: El Tambo, Cauca, Colombia
Producer: Café Solo Collective community
Process: Natural, extended fermentation
Roast: Light

We taste: Purple wild berry. Chocolate chip. Fig. Blueberry.

Very fermented. Play with long ratios, like 1:19. That's a starting point, not a rule.

Limited. When it's gone, it's gone.

Roasted at Cxffeeblack, 3386 Bowen Avenue, Memphis TN 38122.