Marshmallow bomb! 💥 Beware, it's highly addictive! Colombia LOS PATIOS SCARLET from the Czech roastery Kmen will remind you of violet candy from the fair, marshmallow that melts on your tongue, or strawberry pudding that takes you back to your childhood. Each sip brings a new memory – colorful licorice, chewy candies, sweet gummies... it's nostalgia in liquid form. Well, honestly, try it yourself – is this still coffee? After grinding, we recommend using a different grinder, because Scarlet is a powerhouse and won’t easily give up on you!
The coffee combines the honey method with co-fermentation with red fruit and Scarlet concentrate. What exactly is in the Scarlet concentrate is strictly a secret. In the cup, very sweet and funky tones stand out. The beans come from the Los Patios farm, located in La Plata, Huila, Colombia. This farm focuses on innovative coffee processing and uses modern technologies to improve quality and flavor profiles. It has 3 hectares of land and its own processing station. Los Patios is the kingdom of Alexis Silva and Alberto Gutierrez, the farm’s owners, who have become symbols of experimentation and variety of cultivars in the minds of locals.
And how did they process this lot? They harvested ripe coffee cherries from the trees and depulped them. The beans were placed in containers, and concentrate of red fruit and their own solution called Scarlet, which is a production secret, were added. This fermentation phase lasted for 2 days, during which the coffee absorbed all the flavor elements, developing an intense fruity character. After fermentation, the coffee was transferred to African drying beds, where it was dried for 13 – 16 days. The beans retained some of the pulp (hence the honey process), which caramelized during drying. During this time, the beans were regularly turned to ensure an even drying process to reach a final moisture content of 10 – 11%. This careful and controlled process is the key to achieving a high-quality final product.