Milky Cake - Colombia, DAK Coffee | 250g

This coffee is a cake in a cup. This is a truly special and unique coffee - we’ve never had anything similar before. Tasting notes of pistachio, cardamom, vanilla cake & chai.

This profile has been exclusively developed with Cata Export and Diego Bermudez, our partner in Colombia sourcing some of the best coffees Colombia has to offer. The Castillo cherries have undergone an anaerobic fermentation for 48 hours at 20 Celsius. The coffee is then thermic shock washed. The beans then undergo controlled drying for 34 hours at 35°C and a relative humidity of 25% until reaching a grain moisture of 10%-11%

Harvest to harvest, small shifts are expected. Coffee is an agricultural product and no two seasons are identical. With Milky Cake, we hold the variation to a tighter range because the profile is specific and people return to it for that reason. This lot sits slightly outside that range. The core is there: creamy body, vanilla, cardamom. But the acidity is more present than usual and there's a fruitiness running through it that previous batches didn't have. A little less spice, more brightness. It's Milky Cake. Our team is split on whether this batch sits close enough to the profile or whether the shift is big enough to notice. Some of us taste the same coffee we've always had. Others pick up on the extra acidity and miss the intense spiciness. We decided to release it and let you weigh in. Nonetheless, it tastes delicious. This lot costs more than previous years. The producer raised the price significantly, and we chose to keep buying it.