Dark Arts Coffee LIVING DEAD Colombia, Piramide (250g)
Variety: Caturra, Typica, Process: Washed, Altitude: 1700 - 2000 masl
Inzá is a place of great cultural significance as it is home to the national park of Tierradentro, a pre-Colombian culture which began to flourish in 200bc and continued into the 17th century. This site contains many 'hypogea' underground tombs cut into volcano tuff and measuring up to 12m by 7m. These tombs mimicked houses with stairs and decorations inside to create symmetry between the worlds of the living and the dead. Farmers here previously sold their coffee to intermediaries who would blend everything they bought and export it as 'coffee from Huila' but since 2003 have been able to sell more directly meaning full transparency and traceability.
Incredibly balanced with melted chocolate mouthfeel blood orange acidity with sugar cane sweetness, strawberry and floral notes
“Dark Arts Coffee is a coffee roastery started by friends in East London with twisted visions of using alchemy to combine fire, water and magic beans into a divine elixir. We had visions of funnelling the profits into a cult based on our love of the occult, bikes and all things unholy.
However, none of that worked out and now we’re fucking sick to death of bullies calling Dark Arts - ‘that harry potter coffee’. And roastery isn’t even a word.
As a result, instead, we’ve had to focus on importing the best beans from all over the world and roasting them until they taste good as a brown drink.
We have never made a business decision sober.”