Colombia Santa Maria – Exotico from Typika Roastery is an espresso characterized by sweetness, balance, and a pleasantly dessert-like profile. In the cup, sweet apple, pecan, caramel, and buttery cookies come together, giving the coffee a rounded, smooth, and beautifully approachable character. The apple adds a light fruity freshness, the pecans and caramel provide depth, and the buttery cookies soften the entire profile into a sweet, smooth finish. It is an espresso for those who want a cup with a clean flavor, a sweet body, and a balanced character that doesn’t get lost even with daily brewing.
The beans come from Colombia, specifically from the Huila, Cauca, and Antioquia regions, where they are grown by small-scale farmers at an altitude of around 1,850 meters above sea level. This lot is a blend of Castillo, Pink Bourbon, Caturra, Colombia, and Typica varieties, giving it a broader flavor base and a pleasantly layered profile. It is precisely the combination of multiple regions, varieties, and the work of small-scale growers that creates a coffee that is sweet, consistent, and easy to read in terms of flavor. Typica presents it as a coffee that showcases the mastery of small Colombian producers, and in the cup, this is most evident in its harmony and smoothness.
Processing is done using the washed method, which helps keep the resulting profile clean, bright, and balanced. With this method, the coffee cherries are stripped of their skin and pulp after harvest; the beans are then washed with water and dried to a stable moisture content. As a result, heavy fermented notes do not dominate the flavor profile; instead, the sweetness, fruitiness, and structure of the bean itself come to the fore. In this coffee, the washed processing beautifully enhances notes of sweet apple, pecan, caramel, and butter cookies, giving the espresso a clean, smooth, and very pleasantly balanced character.