in dota much of the coffee flower had bloomed a few days before. blossoms last just 3 days in dota. you can see the browning edges here |
back at cafecoop for more cupping, some sample bags of their customers. this one is palestine. |
historic photo of ox based transportation of coffee, from the picker's basket to the coffee mill. |
in the mall near bella vista estate, tres rios. tres rios is becoming a suburb. here we have a coffee kiosk where a coffee tree used to stand ... there won't be such a thing as tres rios coffee in a few years. |
my favorite thing to collect on trips, bottle caps. i usually say i am collectiong them for my nephew, if i am too embarrased to ask for them outright. |
the next day, we head up to the naranjo region. here is the town of naranjo. |
the sign at the coop of naranjo coffee farmers. there are 2500 members, most with very small farms of 1 hectare. |
the coop owns a coffeehouse in town under their offices. I liked the fact that "export quality coffee" means good coffee. it is actually a very accurate statement, since most coffee sold to "local markets" is of lower quality. there's a reson people prefer nescafe to local coffee in many producing countries... sad but true |
the coop is many things, as well as a bank for its members, asociados. |
in the offices of cooppronaranjo, along with awards, a genuine starbucks soccer-futbol. actually, i would like to kick that thing around a bit. |
my favorite bag design from the coop. Caracol means snail, but it is also the name for peaberry since it has a rounded, snail-like appearance. |
super-coffee-cherry-crusader. |
they use the new pulpers to remove the skin of the cherry - these use no water, which helps the mill to maintain high environmental standards, which are mandatory under costa rica law. |
an easy way to count the amount of incoming coffee cherry at their receiving station |
a nosey gringo jumps into the pile coffee coffee in the silo. hey, it wasn't nice-looking parchment coffee so this can only improve the flavor. |
their mill brand for primera quality, la rosa, being prepared for shipment to oakland. if only i had a white t-shirt on i could have asked for him to print it... |
a little cupping at the naranjo coop after a long day. i think that dude max (brown shirt) was trying to intimidate me. what's up with that? they had these funny pvc-pipe spitoons, the big green thing. |
a very old 3 barrel probat sample roaster in naranjo. it will run forever. |
the trees nearby were just about to open their flowers, maybe the next day. |
these are the "candellas", flowers about to open. these trees were caturra |
outside the mill office, a cashew tree ... something I had never seen before. |
... and some towering bamboo, a pachymorph type, perhaps bambusa oldhamii . oh, that's just a rough guess... anyway, it was a nice, swift cupping trip. |
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