Pacamara Norwegian Yeast Maceration – Cat Nap Coffee Roasting

Vendor Description

I drove up to the HQ of Gold Mountain Coffee Growers in NW Washington, DC, so I could pick up a 70kg bag of coffee in person, save on shipping, and meet the Gold Mountain team. The company is run by Ben Weiner, who also owns Finca Idealista, a coffee farm in Nicaragua that produces some of the amazing coffee imported by Gold Mountain alongside many other Nicaraguan farmers they work to support. While Ben was out making local deliveries, Brough and Bethanie from Gold Mountain showed me great hospitality, setting up a cupping with a great selection of their coffees. And this was one of them. And it’s the one I kept going back to. It kept evolving as it went from hot to cool. Amazing new flavors kept presenting. And I was sold. This specific coffee was still at their warehouse in Maryland, so they shipped it to me early the next week, and it arrived in a handmade, hand-painted wooden box.

So now some info on this coffee from Gold Mountain and Finca Idealista:

Finca Idealista partnered with yeast experts from the wine and beer industry to experiment with yeasts and anaerobic fermentation processes. This experimentation involved getting all kinds of special brewing and testing equipment to Nicaragua and undergoing numerous experiments with and without yeasts, cupping them all, and refining the process until results were amazing. This particular yeast has been used for decades in Norway but is not a common yeast in coffee processing.

So there we have it. I love this coffee. I think you will as well.