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Icónica, Carolina Ramirez - Colombia

Icónica, Carolina Ramirez - Colombia

  • Tastes like: Sweet Cocoa, Raspberry Lemonade, Toffee
  • Medium
  • Seed Dried (Washed)
  • Classic and Syrupy
$16.92 USD
$16.92 USD
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  • Farmer Equity: Farmer Equity: 20% of retail price = $3.38 /340g - $3.76 /lb

This coffee represents the sweetness that comes when a mother and daughter work together. Carolina and her mom Maria Victoria are careful by nature and their coffee is a result of the attention to detail they pour into each step of the process. This Caturra washed is perfectly picked, fermented, washed and selected. A chocolate and fruity cup full of strawberries and fudge with a fresh thyme aftertaste. Harvested in Andes, Antioquia, a vast coffee region in Colombia, this delicious cup of coffee is obtained after mixing two different batches of coffee harvested with one day of difference. Once picked, the cherries are fermented for about 9 hours, then depulped and fermented for another 27 hours. A day after, the next batch is added and fermented for 14 more hours before washing it and drying it for about 2 to 3 weeks.

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Farm Information

Farm info

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Carolina Ramirez is one of our UVI stars. A lawyer, an endurance runner, AND an incredible specialty coffee farmer, she truly is an inspiring woman. The embodiment of the excitement we believe seeing young people working in coffee farms represents. Having studied law in Medellin, she decided to go back to Andes to live with her parents at their farm when the pandemic hit and fell in love with the specialty coffee world and its production chain. Nowadays, all of her coffees are designs made alongside her mother, and they both are in charge of selection and processing.

 

 

Country: Colombia 
Region: Andes, Antioquia, Colombia
Farm: El Vergel Estate
Varietal: Castillo, Cenicafe 1 and Caturra
Altitude: 1,750-1950 MASL
Exporter: Unblended Coffee
Importer: Ally

 

 

 

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Brew Parameters

Torque Coffee Brew Guide

Espresso Parameters

Financial Transparency

Producer Price (lb): $3.76 green
* Farmer green coffee price NOT FOB price
* transport, customs, export, insurance and other FOB costs are below
* FOB to EXW costs (lb): $1.34
* Transport Costs (lb): $.65
* Final Landed Cost: $5.76
* Roasting weight loss ~16%
* Roasted cost per pound $6.68
* Torque costs to roast, pack & ship coffee: $7.25 /lb
* Final cost: $13.93 /lb

Proportional Pricing

Out of the $400 billion coffee industry, a meager 5% stays where it's grown, leaving farmers with crumbs. At Torque, we're rewriting this injustice. Our radical approach ensures equity for coffee producers, shifting power dynamics.

Here's the game-changer: Coffee producers were pre-paid a guaranteed 20% upfront based on the retail price of their coffee. Simple. Transparent. Fair. We call it Proportional Pricing©. Pay more, they earn more. This reshapes the value equation.

No more opaque systems. No more exploitation. We start with the value you see on the shelf, ensuring 20% flows back to the hands that cultivate your cup. It's called Proportional Pricing©, a seismic shift in coffee's worth chain. It's farmer equity, pure and simple.

We're breaking norms, building a fairer future. Torque Coffees reverse-engineered the chain, advocating for a balanced, equitable industry. It's time to empower those who make your coffee. Together, let's dismantle inequality in the coffee world.

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Sustainability Info

Since we are all on the consumption end of things we can never get to carbon neutral without stealing the carbon positive from coffee farmers. So instead of aiming for a negative, we are striving to destroy less and be as carbon beautiful as we can.

The Torque Coffee Bag

  

     

    100% Plastic Free

    100% Compostable & Biodegradable 

    100% Plant Based

    plastic free packaging

     

    We have partnered with Better Packing Co to be even more carbon Beautiful!

    Every order is packed loving in either:

    the brilliant ZeroPack mailer Made mostly from limestone quarry waste and a minimal amount of recycled resin as a binding agent. 

    YES THESE bags are made of freaking limestone!

    zero pack mailer

     The Zero Pack is a truly remarkable process! 

    CARBON NEUTRAL
    We offset any carbon emission from this already low energy production process.

    • Production of these mailers is solar-powered and uses no water, acids or bleaches. It's also 'zero waste' because all off-cuts can be put 'back in to the pot' and recycled.

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     For larger multi bag orders and for wholesale orders we use the equally brilliant

    BAMBOO Box!

    These boxes are made mostly from bamboo (and some recycled wood pulp). They are just the thing to ship precious goods in. Curbside recyclable, reusable (at least a couple of times) and compostable. 

    Unbleached, FSC certified Bamboo (2/3) and recycled wood pulp (1/3).
    • Water-based printing ink.

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