This Colombian coffee from Rocket Bean is a juicy and sweet pour-over that beautifully blends tropical fruit with delicate floral notes. On the palate, you’ll find canned peaches, mango, jasmine tea, grapefruit, and zefír (a Baltic confection that’s a cross between a snowball and a marshmallow). Thanks to the honey process, the coffee has a fuller body and a sweet profile, while co-fermentation with peaches and wine yeast gives it an intense fruity character. It’s a coffee for anyone who enjoys bold filter coffees with dessert-like sweetness and tropical juiciness.
Behind this coffee is Jairo Arcila, a third-generation farmer from Colombia’s Quindío region. For many years, he worked as a processing plant manager for one of Colombia’s largest exporters and gradually began building his own farming project. Today, together with his sons, he focuses on specialty coffee, meticulous harvesting, sorting, and modern processing methods. The lot comes from the area around the city of Armenia in the Quindío region, where coffee is grown at an elevation of 1,450 to 1,500 meters above sea level. The variety is Pink Bourbon, which is prized for its sweetness, juiciness, and aromatic profile.
Processing is carried out using the honey method with co-fermentation. The coffee cherries are harvested according to strict ripeness criteria and, after being transported to the processing facility, are sorted by hand to remove lower-quality cherries. This is followed by a 72-hour anaerobic fermentation, during which peaches and wine yeast are added to the coffee. After fermentation, the cherries are pulped, but some of the sweet pulp remains on the beans . During drying, this pulp enhances the sweetness, body, and complexity of the final coffee. The result is a bold, tropical, and very fragrant filter coffee with a long, fruity aftertaste.
- Producer: Jairo Arcila
- Altitude: 1,450 to 1,500 m above sea level
- Harvest: December 2025