When we learnt that there’d be no UK import of Café Granja this year, we knew it would take something special to top our beloved house coffee beans that have served us well at LOCAL for 3 years. Thankfully, Adam at Northside Coffee has come up with the goods once again. After intense tasting (a tough job let us tell you) we’ve got a brand new Colombian coffee full of nutty chocolate notes and a little mellow peach sweetness.

El Eden is a community blend of Castillo, Catimor, Caturra, Colombia varieties grown by 16 smallholder farmers near Armenia, in the Andean Quindío region- one of Colombia’s key coffee growing regions.

Among these contributing farms are La Floresta, San Diego and La Bella- larger farms that make up a large proportion of the overall blend. Coffee from individual farms is harvested and brought to the Racafe mill for washed processing, sampling and grading. A perfectly balanced, consistent blend profile is then drawn from these combined lots.

While we obviously recommend this coffee for espresso, we think that hint of peach makes a damn good filter brew too.