As everyone knows, many factors influence coffee flavor. In recent years, the most popular trend has been innovative processing methods. These novel approaches aim to explore different flavor profiles and expressions of coffee, offering the market customized taste experiences.
In addition, coffee beans processed with innovative methods also have a place in famous international competitions such as COE and BOP, competing separately from traditional washed and sun-dried categories.
Generally, coffee farms capable of innovative processing have decent economic and research capabilities. Today, I’ll introduce the “big shots” in the world of innovative processing—Colombia’s Palm Trees and Toucans Estates, which lead the coffee technology trend.Palm Tree & Toucan Estate is located in the Boquete region of Panama. It is a renowned innovative farm known both locally and globally. It was co-founded in 2011 by a mad scientist, an enthusiastic founder, a dedicated farmer, and a gifted artist.One of the founders of the estate, Felipe, has been in the specialty coffee industry for over ten years. He previously ran green bean trade in the United States and decided to return to Colombia around 2010 to join the specialty coffee revolution in his hometown. The estate manager, Sebastian, won the Colombian Coffee Brewing Championship in 2018 and is passionate about promoting Colombian coffee worldwide.
The Palm Tree & Toucan Estate employs various coffee processing methods, including anaerobic lactic fermentation, aerobic acetic fermentation, slow sun-drying, and other techniques. These unique and refined processing methods result in exceptionally good coffee flavors. Take, for example, the lacto sun-dried Catuai from Palm Tree & Toucan Estate offered by Front Street Coffee—it features prominent notes of berries, black tea, tartaric acid, and a slight hint of fermentation.
In recent years, they have also adopted bio-innovation processing methods to fully reflect their commitment to organic agricultural practices.What is bio-processing? Actually, this concept is not uncommon—famous kopi luwak coffee is produced through the digestive fermentation process in the civet's stomach.
However, the bioprocessing method used by the Palm Tree and Toucan Estate is clearly very “clean and hygienic.” Instead of using mammals like civets, they first obtain and select microbes that exist in the beautiful forest where their estate is located, creating their own fermentation substrate.Then, this base material is mixed with ripe coffee cherries and placed in a sealed clay jar for fermentation, followed by hulling to extract the beans.
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