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COLUMBIA VANILLA HEAVEN 1KG

Vanilla Heaven is one of those coffees that perfectly captures the El Vergel style: expressive, experimental and built around processing techniques designed to push flavour far beyond a traditional coffee profile.
El Vergel Estate is located in Fresno, Tolima, and is run by the Bayter family. Elias and Shady have become widely known in the specialty coffee world for their experimental projects and what could easily be described as hyper-processing - carefully controlled fermentations and processing techniques used to create highly intense, sweet and instantly recognizable flavour profiles.
Our direct relationship with Elias and Shady started in 2022 and has since developed into a very close partnership. We have already visited them three times at El Vergel, giving us the opportunity to follow their work firsthand and see how their processing experiments continue to evolve from season to season.
Vanilla Heaven is built around Castillo, Caturra and Colombia varieties grown at approximately 1,500 metres above sea level. The coffee undergoes a honey process combined with a vanilla co-fermentation, enhancing its sweetness and creamy character while still keeping the structure of the coffee itself.
The result is an intensely sweet and almost decadent cup, driven by vanilla and coconut and rounded out by milk chocolate and nougat. It is exactly the kind of coffee we have come to associate with El Vergel: bold, aromatic and never designed to be subtle.

Brew recipes

Espresso

  • Ratio 1/2
  • 18g in
  • 40g out
  • 25-28 sec
  • Temp. 92-94 C
  • Target EY 20-22 %

Espresso recipe

Recipe

  • Ratio 1/2
  • 18g in
  • 40g out
  • 25-28 sec
  • Temp. 92-94 C
  • Target EY 20-22 %
Equipment used

Dalla Corte Mina espresso machine

All our recipes are tested on 54.5mm diameter 28mm height and 58mm diameter 26mm height IMS competition filter baskets, on a Dalla Corte Mina espresso machine.

The grinder we use are Compak PK100 and the water filtration system is RO with TDS 130-150 ppm, general hardness 108 ppm, alkaline hardness 64 ppm, 7.2-7.4 PH.

All these brew recipes must be taken just as a starting point. It is important to understand that tasting notes we suggest might vary when you extract at home/office or in your coffee shop, depending on your gear, skill and water specifications.

French Press

  • Ratio 1/16.5
  • 300 ml water
  • 18 g in
  • 265 g out
  • 4 min brew time
  • Temp 94-96 C
  • Target EY 18-20%
  • Grind size 700-900 microns

French Press recipe

Recipe

  • Ratio 1/16.5
  • 300 ml water
  • 18 g in
  • 265 g out
  • 4 min brew time
  • Temp 94-96 C
  • Target EY 18-20%
  • Grind size 700-900 microns
Equipment used

Espro Press P3 18 oz

When we brew French Press we aim for the balance between sweetness and body. The grind size is finer than regular french press recipes, one of the reason being the micro filters Espro Press uses ( which we highly recommend).

If you have a really basic filter in your french press you should grind coarser and extend your brew time.

First step is pouring around 80 grams of water over the grinded coffee, in circular moves, trying to wet all the coffee so it makes contact with the hot water and starts blooming.

This should take around 15 seconds, wait for extra 25 seconds and pour the rest of the hot water, in a circular move, so you constantly wet all the coffee particles that tend to stay afloat.

The aim is to extract as even as possible the coffee particles, keeping them immersed in the hot water. Finish the extraction at minute 4 and try to move the coffee in a coffee server as it can keep extracting in the press.

Vanilla, Coconut, Milk chocolate, Nougat
Vanilla, Coconut, Milk chocolate, Nougat

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