Franky Hoyos Pacamara - Colombia, Scenery | 200g

Advanced Washed + Adjuncts, Pacamara, Lightest Roaster Influence - Best brewed with Filter and Espresso
3 key notes: [Passionfruit, Strawberry, Coconut Rings]

It's no secret there has been some controversy about the undisclosed use of flavourings in ultra-high intervention coffee, and it's something we've been grappling with as a roastery. The recent "What's in my Coffee Report" from the SCA put things into sharp perspective for us, alongside upcoming advances in testing that should hopefully start to become available for roasters, green importers and exporters. We've never wanted to make any unfounded accusations, believing that we should always be on the side of the farmers. This whole topic is thorny, and we've written up a post on the Scenery website soon to cover our full feelings on it

However, with the SCA report, we went hunting for a producer who is open about "how the sausage is made" - disclosing the use of flavourings during post-harvest processing, which we're transparently disclosing. This entire release set is to act as a pathfinder and model exercise and a demonstration of how we want to handle these coffees moving forward, and to prove that disclosure can be handled well for other supply chain actors.

We're treating this much the same as an "Adjunct beer" - much like there is blueberry donut stouts, or peach infused lagers, this is a category of artisanal product that the beer industry has embraced and has its place, and it's about time we had the same conversation in coffee. Flavourings wanged in the tank do not fix bad green or bad fermentation, and we think Franky Hoyos has demonstrated both bravery - in being forthright about the use of flavouring extracts in the fermentation - as well as a mastery of heavy processing and careful dosage to produce tasty products.

This is a modern Colombian coffee in style, and we hope you can help us demonstrate that there is market demand for transparency.

We're tasting:
Intense fruity aromatics - we find passionfruit, grape and hoppy terpenes. In the cup it's wildly sweet with passionfruit, mango, strawberry jam and peach, kiwi-like acidity, and as it cools develops a distinct coconut biscuit sweetness, with a hint of tropical hops.