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Colombian Coffee is one of the world’s most renowned coffee beans, you can find them all around the world in London, Amsterdam with Café Piraguas and in every big city. The world is in love with Colombian Coffee, because we have the perfect coffee growing climate, with our world best arabica beans and pristine cared fincas, all this makes the perfect cup.

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A Famous Coffee – The Colombian Coffee

Colombian coffee is world famous for its flavor, taste and recognizable rich aroma that rises from every brew. That may explain that Colombia have been producing coffee for more than 150 years, most of the time it’s been the Colombian top export product. There are many secrets to the coffee success, but the geographical richness is most important of them. Coffee grows best in volcanic soil, with altitudes between 1,200 to 1,800 meters, in places that are free of frost and snow, but receive around 200 centimeters of rain a year. Colombia checks all those requirements.

Where Is Produced – Colombian Coffee Areas

Colombian coffee is produced mostly in the coffee zone in the center of the country. It spans the coffee growing states or departments of Caldas (where Café Piraguas is born), Quindío, Risaralda, and the north of Valle del Cauca. But Colombia has a lot to offer in terms of coffee, you can find all around the Andean region different beans with very distinctive flavor and varieties according to its origin. In our firsts entries you can find a lot more information about every single region that produces coffee in Colombia. Basically, this country has a bean to every taste.

Colombian Coffee Beans

One of the secrets about the Colombian Coffee is in our beans. In the coffee world the two most important species of coffee are the Arabica trees and Robusta trees. Everyone knows in the coffee business that Arabica has the best flavor and on the other side, Robusta is cheaper, is a bean contains more caffeine and has a bigger yield. Colombian coffee is 100% arabica, that’s one of the traits of our success. You can find the of the best arabica in Café Piraguas.

Colombian Coffee Planted and Harvested

Colombian Coffee harvest is part of the success too. Some countries favor strip picking, which mans pulling all the coffee cherries off the branch in one go, usually by big machine. In Colombia’s mountainous geography, the norm is to “cherry pick” or select by hand only the fully ripe cherries. The experience and knowledge of our coffee pickers let them know which cherry take and they examine a tree every 10 days or so, a good picker can harvest up to 90 kilos of ripe red cherries a day, around 19 ok of coffee beans.

If you want to know more about coffee and especially Colombian Coffee visit us regularly and find our latest blogs and news about our product and the coffee business. Remember you can find the finest Colombian Coffee in London and Amsterdam with Café Piraguas.