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Prodigal is a specialty coffee roaster based in Boulder, Colorado, led by Scott Rao and Mark Benedetto. Their aim is to provide consistently clean, light roasts through the use of strict QC standard green beans and expert roasting. Green beans are chosen based on a blind cupping, where only the highest scoring are added to their repertoire. Prodigal is also committed to paying some of the highest prices for green beans in the world to support their producers.
Chirosos are on the rise! And this lot from Finca La Mata De Guadua landed at the roastery just yesterday and is tasting great. We love this coffee for its peach, raspberry, and raisin flavors, with a hint of tropical fruit mélange in the finish.
This coffee was processed using the "Cochadas" method: as cherries are harvested day by day, the just-harvested coffee gets added to the existing fermentation pile. The snowball effect results in a coffee with a wide range of flavours, some barely-fermented cherry flavour to some with 4-5 days of fermentation. After a final washing step, the coffee dried in a marquesina for 10-15 days.
Producer Juan Pablo Zapata, along with his brother and father, farm their 20 hectare plot at 2100 meters. Many food crops grow on the farm, and Juan noticed his coffees thriving under shade from their banana trees, which he hopes to leverage moving forward. This is a new relationship between our vendor The Coffee Quest and the Zapata family, and this first coffee is a tremendous start!
| Variety | Chiroso |
| Process | Washed |
| Producer | Juan Pablo Zapata |
| Farm | Finca La Mata de Guadua |
| Region | Urrao, Colombia |
| Altitude | 2100 masl |
| Impressions | Peach, Raspberry, Raisin |
| Weight | 250 grams |
| Roast Date | August 17 2026 |
