Abu Coffee was named in honor of José Guillermo Luttrell Tedman, a third-generation coffee producer whose dream was to achieve what he considered the perfect balanced cup: a Geisha raised to the highest standards of quality. "Abu," short for Abuelo (grandfather in Spanish), is what his grandchildren called him, and the name carries forward his legacy as a passionate lover of Boquete and specialty coffee. We've had the pleasure of working with the current producer, José Luttrell, for several years. We've even had the wonderful opportunity to visit the farm and gotten to know his family firsthand.

This Catuai lot follows a two-phase process. Cherries are hand-collected at optimum maturation, hand-selected, and floated in mountain spring water. They are pre-dried whole on elevated beds for 120 hours, then transferred to closed tanks for a 120-hour wet anaerobic fermentation, rehydrated with mosto from the Geisha process to maintain flavour integrity. Once fermentation is complete, the cherries move back to raised beds for a final sun-drying stage of 30 days.

Brewing recommendations

• Recommended resting time: 20–30 days
• Filter: 1:16-1:17, 94c
• 2 or 3 pour recipes