Kerehaklu Mosto Culture Washed

Single-origin and single-estate specialty coffee beans (also available as ground coffee aligned to each brewing method), grown in Kerehaklu Estate in Chikmagalur, Karnataka. This SLN10 culture-washed lot layers milk chocolate, prunes, plum and cherry over a nutty finish.

Post-Harvest & Processing: At Kerehaklu Estate, hand-picked ripe cherries are floated to remove the unriped and defected cherries. The culture used is a back slopping of mosto and mucilage solution and sugar as starter. For fermentation, the culture starter is first put in drums on the cherries, while still whole, before being pulped. The parchment then undergoes a second fermentation — extended for roughly 52 hours under anoxic conditions with the mosto starter culture built from the mucilage that carries the estate's own native yeasts and bacteria. This culture-washed method preserves the estate's distinct microbial fingerprint, developing the milk chocolate, prune and cherry sweetness in the cup, before a final wash and a 19 day dry in polyhouse.

Estate: Kerehaklu
Region: Chikmagalur, Karnataka
Elevation: 1,200 MASL
Varietal: SLN10
Process: Culture Washed
Roast: Medium Light
Tasting Notes: Milk chocolate, prunes, plum, cherry and nutty finish

Best Brewed With: Pour Over, AeroPress, Chemex.