What we tasted: Butterscotch, Cocoa, Pineapple

Processing: Honey*

Varietal: Caturra, Catuai

Producer: Coope Dota

Altitude: 1500 - 2600MASL

Ideal for: All Brew Methods

*Honey Processing does not involve actual Honey. It refers to the sticky, honey-like mucilage that’s left on the coffee beans after the skin is pulped, and set to dry with the mucilage layer intact.

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In the small town of Santa Maria de Dota, at the centre of the coffee growers of Tarrazu, is the coffee processing mill and facilities belonging to Coope Dota.

Established back in 1960 with 96 producers clubbing together, by 2017 they had grown to 800. This has grown quickly subsequently, with fair pricing, good quality and a focus on the people.

Today, Cherries are picked across some of the 1070 members farms and delivered to either bank stations in a centralised area or brought directly to the beneficio in Santa Maria de Dota.

At this point, the cherry measure 23 Brix.

Bank stations deliver as soon as they have a lorry load of the same quality, the main beneficio unloads directly in to the right department.

Cherry is measured by fanega and cajuela, and ferments for 24 hours before going through one of 12 depulpers.

70% of the mucilage is left on the parchment and all honey coffee is dried on the patio.

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The first coffee processor in the world to be certified as carbon neutral, back in 2011, sustainability is about more than just the people and business elements. 2024 saw the launch of Project One – this saw Coope Dota work with CATIE and CAIA Alexandria (Advanced Center for Applied Research) to develop not only an improved fertiliser from the waste honey water, but to capture pollution from the air as a part of doing so.

Their aim is to go further than being carbon neutral, but from removing it from the air rather than offsetting.
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