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Hacienda Sonora Diego Guardia Cascara Fruit Tea
$3.32 - $203.34
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Country: Costa Rica
Region: Alajuela, Central Valley
Farm: Hacienda Sonora
Coordinates: 10° 2' 47.6495" N 84° 15' 40.2048" W
Farmer/Grower: Alberto and Diego Guardia
Variety: Various
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1300 m.a.s.l.
Humidity: -
Density: -
Harvest Date: February, 2024
Arrival Date: August, 2024
Grade: SHG
Marks: 13278-15
SCA Cupping Score: -
- Notes of dried cherry, lemon, strawberry, golden raisin, and aguapanela with a bright, tart acidity and very clean finish.
- Cáscara is not to be roasted! The husks are ready to be brewed and require no further preparation. Do not put this in a roasting machine or it may cause fire.
Brewing Instructions
Hot Recipe
20 grams dried coffee husk
300 milliliters filtered water at 90°C (200°F)
Steep for 6:00 minutes
Filter and enjoy!
Adjust to taste.
Cold Brew Recipe
130 grams dried coffee husk
1 liter filtered water (at room temperature)
Steep for 24 hours in the refrigerator
Filter and enjoy!
Adjust to taste.
A coffee-fruit tea.
In our experience, the best tasting cáscara comes from coffees that were properly dried using the natural/dry processing method with the husks removed from the coffee seeds after the coffee is completely dry. The coffee husks can then be separated and sorted to be brewed as a tea-like beverage. The cup is very unique and not exactly tea and certainly not coffee.
Cáscara is packed full of antioxidants and has relatively low caffeine content compared to brewed coffee (roughly 30mg per standard serving).
Being a very unique ingredient, cáscara can be used in higher concentrations to make delicious syrups, cocktails and mocktails!
Hacienda Sonora Estate has been in Alberto’s family for more than a Century.
In the 1970’s when Alberto took over the farm he began planting the majority of the land with coffee and shortly after it became the main source of income. In 1999 with historical low coffee prices Alberto invested in a Mill in order to be able to maximize his quality, in order to do so he became a pioneer in very alternative processing techniques at the time such as Honey and Naturals.
All of the energy consumed by the farm is 100% renewable energy harvested on the farm. This energy supplies power to the coffee mill and provides a portion of free electricity for some of the people who live and work at the farm. The green energy is harvested from a natural water stream with a special turbine, known as a Pelton Wheel.
Don Alberto also became living proof of how unique varieties could create different levels of complexity in the cup. Nowadays, Hacienda Sonora has more than 20 different varieties of plants in 80 hectares of coffee (+ 20 hectares of forest reserve) and is known to be a welcoming place for coffee lovers.