Betania

Description

2025 FREEZER SALE UPDATE (2025-12-17):

From Christopher: This was among my favorite of Aviary's releases in 2024 and I was thrilled to discover some 2.35kg of green still vacuum-sealed and buried in the freezer. For our 2025 freezer sale, we roasted it hot and fast on our P3000 in an effort to see just how expressive we can make this coffee. It came out a bit lighter than our 2024 release—but still tastes bright and jammy.

A stunning expression of a washed Pink Bourbon from six-time Cup of Excellence awarded producer Lino Rodriguez in Colombia.

From Christopher: "I first purchased coffee from Lino Rodriguez in 2017 after being paired with him by Salomé Puentes, then of Caravela Coffee (now of Teco Coffee in Guatemala) to conduct processing experimentation in an effort to improve the cup characteristics of the Castillo on his family farm through controlled fermentation. Lino is a quality-driven producer who studied agriculture in university; he manages his family's farm and processing methodically and with an openness to new practices. At the blind calibration cupping with Lino, there was a coffee that scored higher than the rest on the table—a coffee that was later revealed to be a washed Pink Bourbon grown by Lino. The erroneously-named Pink Bourbon, now understood to be an Ethiopian landrace, has quickly gained favor among buyers and producers alike both for its resistance to disease and roya, high productivity and high quality potential. Lino's was the first I tasted—and since then, he has supplied seedlings to countless producers in Palestina on his way to wins and top-placements in the Cup of Excellence in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. This coffee is an exemplar of the quality I hope to find in a Pink Bourbon that alludes to its Ethiopian lineage and presents in the cup with complexity and tangy-savory-sweet notes of fig, nectarine, blood orange and lychee."

Read the blog post to put this coffee into context.

Text from Aviary Coffee's listing.