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While we truly believe that decaf can be delicious, it's not often that we can really get really excited about decaffeinated coffee. These coffee beans are most definitely an exception. To say that you would never guess that this coffee was decaf from its taste is an understatement. We've witnessed coffee professionals fooled by its flavours before our very eyes. It doesn't just taste like normal caffeinated coffee - it tastes like exceptional caffeinated coffee.
Our friends at Quaffee scoured the globe to find a coffee that was decaf and met their high standards. In the end, they found it in the same region of Colombia as their delicious Los Idolos. Grown in Huila province, these coffee beans are decaffeinated using a natural by-product of sugar cane processing. This allows for maximum flavour retention in an environmentally friendly manner.
One of the wonderful things about this coffee is that it's complex - you're likely to find different flavours depending on your brewing method and parameters. We experienced fruity flavours like melon with a delicious sweetness balanced by a medium & creamy body in some brew methods. In others, some more pronounced spicy notes came through.
Roaster's notes
La Serrania is rated as a specialty grade coffee, on its own. So it is good to drink even if you are not concerned about the caffeine in coffee. The coffee is medium bodied with fruit and spice notes and subtle wine like acidity.
- Region: Pitalito, Huila, Columbia
- Processing: Wet Process, Solar dried then naturally decaffeinated
- Species/Varietal: Arabica / Caturra and Colombia F6
- Harvest: May / June
- Altitude grown: 1,500 – 1,900 meters above sea level (masl)
- Producer group: La Serrania
- Intensity / Prime Attribute: Heavy fruit, spice and cocoa with a medium body and a clean finish
- Roast used: Gentle heat introduction control of the ramp through the roast into and through first crack; drop as second crack starts
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Beautiful Beans
Definitely worth the premium price. Works well with a bean to cup machine
Finally a decaf that can be called interesting
It retains some of the complexity I'm used to when I was drinking non-decaf Colombian. Definitely the best decaf I've had and I brewed it in my own home. Most coffee shops and cafes don't put much effort into searching for quality decaf (at least the many I've tried).
Delicious (and it's decaf)
Clearly not the only one who has enjoyed Quaffee's La Serrania decaf :) I'm relatively new to decaf and this did not disappoint. Wonderfully bright, with a bit of body and finished with some dark chocolate. As with other decaf you need to have a strategy for managing fines, especially if you don't want slow drawdowns. It looks like this is also decaffeinated in Colombia, and I like that this means a bigger cut of the final price stays in a producing country.
For a decaf...
..it's good. Still has a slightly flat taste, albeit less than other decafs I've tried.
Best decaf in SA
Exactly what the title says