BeMyBean - Costa Rica Corazon de Jesus Natural Filter 250 g

Origin: Costa Rica

Region: Chirripo

Farm: Corazon de Jesus

Processing: Natural

Variety: Catuai

Altitude: 1300 m a. s. l.

ABOUT THE COFFEE AND PROCESSING

Costa Rica Corazon de Jesus is a coffee that takes over the entire cup, like a juicy piece of fruit held in your hand on the hottest day of summer. The first sip is like biting into a red grape: bursting with sweet juice, almost sparkling with freshness. Moments later, a note of dark cola appears, the kind you’d find in boutique, craft bottles, where caramel, spices, and fizzy depth create an almost dessert-like shadow. It all finishes with a soft, nostalgic accent of cherry pudding, like a homemade hot mug whose aroma lingers long after the cup is empty.

This character is born from dry processing, which on this farm feels more like a slow dance between fruit and sunlight than a technical procedure. Hand-picked cherries first land on sorting tables, where each one undergoes a personal “interrogation.” Only those with perfectly taut skins and a ruby-red color move on, looking like tiny sugar-filled ornaments. They remain intact, unpeeled, unwashed, still wrapped in their juicy skins, as if freshly picked from the tree.

Next, they are laid out on African beds, where the sun does its work slowly. Day after day, the cherries gently wilt, wrinkling like dried plums as they pass their sweetness into the beans. Aromas begin to concentrate, the pulp caramelizes from within, and the fruit is turned regularly so fermentation stays even, calm, and elegant.

Only when the fruit becomes brittle, almost shell-like, is the bean released from its center: bright, smooth, nourished by weeks of slow drying. It then rests, its flavors settling like wine aging in a barrel. By the time it reaches the roastery, it already holds fullness within it: sweetness, depth, and intensity that later unfold in the cup as grape-like juiciness and a dark, dessert-style cola note.

Corazon de Jesus is not a coffee that slips in quietly. It enters like a movie scene: warm light, a flash of fruit, and that soft cherry finish that’s impossible to confuse with anything else. If you like alternative coffees that feel alive, that pulse and leave a trace of sun-ripened fruit on the palate, this is that Costa Rica.

Store in a cold and dry space.