Carmen Estate Espresso

Carmen Estate EspressoAbout the Coffee Carmen Estate is one of Panama's older farms, originally built by the Franceschi family and now run by Jean Paul Langenstein. Located near Volcn in the Chiriqu highlands, the farm sits at high elevation on rich volcanic soil with shade from old growth forest. Those conditions slow down cherry development, which gives the coffee a clean, even character that washed processing tends to highlight well. JP is also involved in Best of

the coffee dries in a large shaded structure Jose built himself

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Because the solvent itself comes from local sugar cane

offering great autonomy

which is part of why specialty roasters tend to favour it when they want decaf worth putting on the menu

That scientific background shows up directly in how 94 Celcius roasts: every batch goes through a Probat P12 roaster with high-precision thermal probes tracking temperature

no-fuss coffee that holds up across different setups

They work directly with farms like Finca Takesi in Bolivia

The performance of the boiler has been considerably improved before pairing it with a professional steam wand

Sebastian covers Latin America

and Yellow Catuaí varieties

rounder body than washed lots from the same region