Nasa u’y

community blend

semiwashed process

Nasa u’y

community blend

semiwashed process

bedrock series

bedrock series

details

who

36 nasa indigenous smallholders

where

tierradentro, cauca, colombia

when

winter 2024

how

organic non certified

shade-grown, bird-friendly,1800+masl

purchased through longstanding community relationships, above market value.

how we’re brewing

pour-over (v60)

1:15 - 95C - 3:00

1:2 - 93C - :25-28

1:15 - 97C - 3:30

the dark roast you’ve been waiting for. rich, bold ​and full of sweet molasses and dark chocolate ​notes. Not burnt or roasty, but full-bodied and ​deeply satisfying.

medium roast with a prolonged yet controlled development time for workability and amplified sweetness.


roasted on an aillio bullet r1 in 1kg batches.

*roast profile is just an example.


story

The NASA indigenous community of Togoima is tightly knit and resilient, but often faces difficulties with reliable, fairly compensated market access.


The blend consists of caturra, tabi, cenicafe 1, Castillo, bourbon, and sometimes maragogype varieties. By tradition, the community pulps their cherries about 12 hours after picking them at ideal ripeness. the cherries are pulped with very little water and are left with plenty of mucilage.


Julieth and Jackie of the Liz-Andela family do most of the purchasing and blending. They purchase the coffee from their neighbours at a flexible rate that is guaranteed 10% higher than the market rate. its usually a lot higher, but sometimes the market can rise in a tidal fashion, so that helps set a minimum. They cup and blend the coffees at their family farm in the very same neighbourhood. Their brother ervin, of native root coffee, then receives, warehouses, and exports it to lulo hq.



value breakdown

Nasa u’y received $9.70usd per kilogram. each individual producer received $5/kg. nasa u’y blends based on quality, dry mills, and exports their coffees around the globe. lulo is their biggest supporter.

Farm value capture

retail 250g

8%

wholesale 250g

15%

retail 2kg

11%

wholesale 2kg

22%

these percentages reflect the economic value retained by the farm at each point of sale. they are all far above industry standards.


we’re a small roastery founded and built on real relationships. we seek proper value distribution, striving towards an equal supply chain, obstacles be damned.

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