The origins of Sidra are mysterious. Once thought to be a cross between Red Bourbon and Typica, genetic testing of some Sidra plants revealed similarities to Ethiopian Heirloom Varieties - which makes sense given their common floral forward profiles.
Granja Paraiso '92 has processed this coffee with their double-anaerobic thermal shock method, in which the coffee fruit, after having been first sanitized with ozone, undergoes two stages of fermentation. First, the whole cherries are submerged under water for 48 hours, then the beans are pulped and fermented with a strain of Lactobacillus for 24 hours. After fermentation, the beans are given a “thermal shock” using hot and cold rinses to help the beans absorb the fermentation metabolites and halt any further fermentation. Afterward, the washed parchment coffee is rapidly dried with an in-house designed Eco-Enigma dehumidifying dryer to avoid over-oxidation or continued fermentation.
The origins of Sidra are mysterious. Once thought to be a cross between Red Bourbon and Typica, genetic testing of some Sidra plants revealed similarities to Ethiopian Heirloom Varieties - which makes sense given their common floral forward profiles.
Granja Paraiso '92 has processed this coffee with their double-anaerobic thermal shock method, in which the coffee fruit, after having been first sanitized with ozone, undergoes two stages of fermentation. First, the whole cherries are submerged under water for 48 hours, then the beans are pulped and fermented with a strain of Lactobacillus for 24 hours. After fermentation, the beans are given a “thermal shock” using hot and cold rinses to help the beans absorb the fermentation metabolites and halt any further fermentation. Afterward, the washed parchment coffee is rapidly dried with an in-house designed Eco-Enigma dehumidifying dryer to avoid over-oxidation or continued fermentation.