{"product_id":"costa-rica-la-pastora-african-washed","title":"Costa Rica La Pastora African Washed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is from the famous La Pastora estate in the Tarrazu region and is a microlot of their African Washed process coffee. This bourbon varietal bean was washed in the Kenyan style -- first it was flushed with water and then soaked a second time to sort out the low density beans. Then they are sent through a water channel to scrub them clean and soaked for 24 hours in a tank. Then they are sundried at very little depth for 6 hours with the parchment on. Then they are taken to patios and dried with a lot of depth for up to two weeks until they are down to 12% moisture. It is a complicated, expensive and labor intensive way to process coffee, but Kenyan coffee is some of the most complex and sweetest washed coffee in the world when they're done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is uncommon to get an African Washed processed coffee out of Central America, which usually only exports washed process beans. La Pastora processes the same bean 5 different ways. This is a great education in how processing effects the taste of the coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis bean takes more heat than the natural and honey coffees -- don't let it stall out. Roast it like a Kenya. Give it a few more degrees at the end than you do the honey and natural processed beans but a few degrees less than the typical washed lot. You'll get a juicy\/winey Kenya-like bean, but instead of a grapefruit and blackberry taste that a Kenya would tend to have, you get a stonefruit, plum, and wild cherry taste similar to the taste profile of the other Costa Ricans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you like darker-roast coffees, this is the only one of the Costa Rican lots that holds up well to dark roasts. Instead of burning, it just smooths out and gets a deeper darker flavor. At 2nd cracks you have a sweet medium roast. Go into the 2nd cracks and you have a sweet french roast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUSA Arrival: August 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"happymugcoffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":19630894383192,"sku":null,"price":8.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/8548\/8472\/products\/826.jpg?v=1738611762","url":"https:\/\/happymugcoffee.mom\/products\/costa-rica-la-pastora-african-washed","provider":"Happy Mug","version":"1.0","type":"link"}