Good morning and welcome to today’s review. I’m tasting Perkatory Coffee Roasters’ current Colombian offering this morning. Happy Friday, if the days even mean anything to you anymore!
Purchase this coffee directly for $18/16oz
Other reviews in this series: Guatemala Antigua | Ethiopia Yirgacheffe
PERKATORY COFFEE ROASTERS COLOMBIA FINCA LOS PINOS
Perkatory Coffee Roasters was started by Joey and Johanna Perazella in Middletown, Connecticut in late 2018 and they already have a second location planned in Southington, CT. Both cities are around 20-30 minutes south of Hartford, CT. Joey and Johanna grew up on punk rock and skateboarding, and they wanted to take the culture of craft brewing into coffee. Mixing all that with their mutual love of Halloween, the natural offspring is Perkatory, a play on words for heaven’s waiting room whose mascot is a grim reaper drinking coffee and wearing sunglasses while giving the “hang loose” sign. I dig what Joey and Johanna are doing… coffee can be so serious sometimes that it’s nice to see someone having some fun with the imagery and still taking the coffee itself “deathly serious.” 🙂
This morning’s coffee is a washed selection from Finca Los Pinos. Finca Los Pinos is located in La Unión, in the Nariño department of Colombia. Coffee grows at 1800masl at Finca Los Pinos and the farm is owned by Colombia Portilla, who inherited it from her parents and raised her three children there, relying solely on the income she could produce as a coffee farmer. Today, Colombia’s brothers are involved in the operation during harvesting seasons, so Finca Los Pinos is still a family affair. Perkatory gives us tasting notes of, “Fruity, lemongrass aroma, sweet chamomile flavor, honey finish.”
I’m using my standard pourover setup of a 1:16 ratio of 22g of coffee to 352g of Third Wave Water in a Trinity Origin dripper with Kalita 155 filter. I’m using a Knock Aergrind and pulse pouring through a Melodrip to reduce agitation of the coffee bed during brewing. This coffee got a 35 second bloom and the total brew time was 3:35.
Aroma isn’t doing much for me today. It’s allergy season here with everything in bloom and I sneezed about 700 times before this review, so other than “yep, that’s coffee!” I’m not getting much nuance in the aroma, most likely my fault and not the coffee’s. Taking a sip, this is a medium(-) bodied coffee for me that has a slippery feeling on my palate, a bit like an oatmeal stout. Taking a sip, there is a light honey sweetness here followed by apple sweetness and acidity. I’m getting a little green apple in this cup, but mostly red apples… crisp, but sweet. There’s a touch of lemon acidity in the second half of the sip that carries this coffee into the finish. The cup finishes sweet and leaves a nice, lingering aftertaste.
This coffee is a little funny for me in that I don’t have a lot to say about it, yet I’m really enjoying it! There isn’t a lot of complexity, to me, in this coffee, but it makes up for that in drinkability. This is a nice, pleasant, easy-drinking coffee and I love that about it!