KEVIN!!! is our medium-roast holiday blend, and it truly tastes like the season. A warm and festive coffee, with notes of candied apple, hot chocolate, and spiced brown sugar.
Half of KEVIN!!! comes from an experimental lot from Forest Coffee, a project founded in 2019 by Martha, Shady, and Elias Montenegro/Bayter to add more value to Colombian coffee through innovative processing methods and by directly connecting producers with roasters. Cherries from small producers in Tolima, Huila, and Caldas are brought to their El Vergel estate in Tolima. There, they undergo honey processing for two to three days in sealed, oxygen-free stainless steel tanks with red apples and lactobacillus cultures. This is what gives the coffee its smooth roundness, creamy texture, and slight candy apple character.
The other half is an organic, Fair Trade washed Guatemala from the ASOBAGRI cooperative in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango. It’s grown by smallholders who each process their coffee on their own micro-mills, and it brings the hot chocolate note, along with depth and a clean, balanced structure that keeps the co-ferment’s intensity in check.
