Elida

Description

Tastes Like: Floral, Juicy, Elegant

Origin: Lot Aguacatillo, Elida Estate, Chiriqui, Panama

Variety: Gesha

Producer: Wilford Lamastus

Elevation: 2050 masl

Process: Natural Dark Room Dried

Elida Estate, Aguacatillo

Sourced via @coffee.with.dongze Elida Estate is part of Lamastus Family Estates in Alto Quiel, Boquete, in Panama’s Chiriquí highlands. The Lamastus family has grown coffee here since 1918. The estate lies partly within Volcán Barú National Park, with coffee growing among volcanic soils and surrounding native cloud forest.

This Aguacatillo selection is listed at 2,050 masl and identified as PA1905. Its elevation places it in a cool highland setting, where volcanic soils and the surrounding cloud forest shape the coffee’s growing conditions.

Variety

Gesha, also spelled Geisha, is an Arabica variety with Ethiopian origins. Panamanian Gesha is valued for its high cup-quality potential at altitude and often shows delicate floral and stone-fruit aromatics. Cultivation, harvest, processing, and roasting all shape how those characteristics appear in the final cup.

Processing

This coffee is processed as a natural, with the cherries dried whole before the dried fruit is removed. For this selection, drying takes place in a dark room.

Dark Room Drying, or DRD, uses an enclosed dark room with fans and dehumidifiers to manage airflow and moisture removal. It controls the drying environment without adding a separate fermentation step by itself.

Text from Hydrangea Coffee Roasters' listing.