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Granitos Typica

Granitos Typica

Floral notes shine through from the Typica varietal, underpinned by a deep dried fruit sweetness, typical of Costa Rica

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Coffee Expression The floral complexity of the Typica varietal is present here, along with bright citrus, balanced and anchored by a deep dried fruit sweetness

Producer This is the fifth time we have purchased coffee from Omar and the Calderon family. This lot was grown on one of the family’s highest farms, located at 2000 masl.

Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso

Technical Data

Producer  Omar Calderon

Region Tarrazu

Altitude 2000 masl

Varietal  Typica

Process Honey

Harvest February 2025

Brewing Advice

Water is one of the most critical components of an excellent coffee experience. We recommend using mineral water of a soft Total Dissolved Solids count, ideally below 150 ppm. 

Rested coffee During the resting process, harsh and astringent flavors, which can even be perceived as a ‘roast’ character, soften out, allowing a clearer and brighter expression of the coffee’s character to shine.  

We recommend resting our coffees for at least 10 days after the roast date, and we often find excellent results, especially for particularly dense coffees, beyond 6 weeks.

Brewing Our straightforward approach to coffee carries over into brewing. We recommend our roasted coffee for all brew methods, regardless of whether it is immersion, percolation or espresso. We believe that there is one correct way to roast a single coffee, roasting lightly, in such a way as to release its innate qualities and showcase its quality. Learn more about different brewing techniques and specific brew guides here.

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Granitos Typica

This is the fifth time we have bought from the the Calderon family’s micro mill, Granitos de Altura.

The mill is mainly run by Omar Calderon, and lies just outside the town of Santa Maria de Dota, in the Tarrazu region. We have visited Omar several times, and dined with the family at their house, located next to the mill, high in the Talamanca Sierra, overlooking the beautiful Los Quetzales National Park. They have several small farms scattered around the mill, effectively creating one larger farm.

This Typica comes from cherries grown at Ortiz 2000, named for its high altitude, reaching over 2000 masl. Omar then takes the ripe Typica cherries and processes them at Granitos, using a white honey method. To accomplish this, they leave a small amount of flesh on the seed during drying, adding sweetness and fruit character to the cup, but aiming to maintain a very clean representation of the Typica varietal.

The florals shine through, with a very clean and sweet cup, one of the most transparent representations of Typica we have tasted this year.

Costa Rica

We buy coffees from a long spine of Costa Rica, running through the country’s capital San Jose. This spine is famous for high quality coffee production the world over, resulting in high prices for farmers. One of the reasons for this is plentiful high altitude, the Talamanca Sierra runs through the region, with peaks of above 3000 masl. The main spine is split into 3 regions, the West Valley and Central Valley to the north of San Jose, and Tarrazu to the south.

In all of these areas, but especially in Tarrazu, agriculture and coffee growing is a main employer, vital to the economy. In fact, the population of Tarrazu is multiplied by three during harvest season, when workers flock to the region for the high wages paid to skilled pickers. The entire spine is mainly of volcanic origin, helping to provide fertile soils conducive to the production of consistently high scoring coffees, which we keep going back for.

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