Just one cup of this coffee was enough to inspire a journey to South America to discover this species for ourselves. Legends and speculation buzz about this coffee. For starters, this is not even the same species as most of the coffee encountered on the market today. C. Eugenioides is considered to be one of the parents of modern Arabica coffee. Eugenioides is a very difficult coffee to grow...


Colombia Inmaculada Eugenioides


This is not coffee. Okay, it is technically coffee, but not in the traditional sense. This is a resurrected species of the coffee plant known as Eugenioides. Only a few farms in the world have this coffee, and only one we know of in production, which is the experimental Inmaculada Coffee Farms in Colombia. It is, without a doubt, the sweetest coffee you have ever tasted. This is a once a year opportunity to experience this agricultural phenomenon as so little of this coffee is ever grown and exported. Enjoy my friends! It’s an honor for us to roast it!


Origin: Colombia

Region: Valle de Cauca

Farm: Las Nubes

Producer: Julian Vicente Holguin

Process: Natural

Elevation: 1900 meters

Variety: Eugenioides

Cup: Cola, Passion Fruit, Lucky Charms, Guava


4 oz 12 oz
$ 35
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Just one cup of this coffee was enough to inspire a journey to South America to discover this species for ourselves. Legends and speculation buzz about this coffee. For starters, this is not even the same species as most of the coffee encountered on the market today. C. Eugenioides is considered to be one of the parents of modern Arabica coffee. Eugenioides is a very difficult coffee to grow, yielding only 150 grams per tree of unmilled coffee. It contains about half the caffeine of Arabica coffee, which causes the coffee to have almost no bitterness. The defining characteristic of this coffee is its insane, almost unbelievable sweetness. It has a compelling lack of citric acidity that we are so used to in a coffee, presenting a whole new perspective on what coffee can be. Interestingly specialty coffee has honed in on just one species, Coffea Arabica, as the species that has become synonymous with specialty coffee. Over 100 species of Coffea have been described, and Eugenioides is hailed as a progenitor of modern Arabica.




In 2010, the Holguin family began their coffee journey in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. They have a long history of producing both palm oil trees and sugar cane in Nariño. They started with 5.12 hectares*, and nine years later, they hold 50 hectares that is divided up into four farms, all of which have a unique climate. Inmaculada Coffee Farms is divided up into El Jardin, Las Nubes, Monserrat, and Inmaculada Concepcion. Inmaculada’s focus on growing exotic varieties and processing them to highlight their terroir is inspiring. Their goal is to “produce the most extraordinary coffees possible, regardless of risk or costs.” Most of the varieties they grow are incredibly low yielding and difficult to grow, proving their commitment to their goal. Within the grounds of their Inmaculada Concepcion farm, there is an old Catholic school that has been turned into their dry mill and cupping lab, complete with a Ferris wheel style drying bed on the roof. After cupping in their classroom-converted-to cupping lab, we zeroed in on four varieties that highlight what Inmaculada is accomplishing with all their hard work. *A hectare is a unit of measure widely used in coffee-producing regions, one hectare is about 2.4 acres.





FILTER – AeroPress + Prismo
14.5g Coffee : 160g Water 210°F
~1:30 Drain Time

- 30g Bloom, gently stir to saturate coffee
- @0:30 add rest of water (130g) and let rest
- @1:00 plunge for 30s
~1:30 Drain Time

FILTER – Kalita Wave
30g Coffee : 400g Water 205°F
~3:15 Drain Time

We found the key to an excellent brew of this coffee is to make it strong! This coffee is unique in how sweet and tropical it is! Too weak, and the beverage borders on boring. But, when balanced, this coffee is sweet and tropical-like guava, passionfruit, and malty like Fruity Pebbles and sticky rice. One of the unique things about this coffee is that it has no “off” notes, or flavors that we find with over- or under-extraction. However, if this coffee drains quickly (under-extracts), it’ll be weak and taste like sugary, flat La Croix. If it drains slow (over-extracts), it’ll taste too sweet, like an overripe fruit that lingers like aspartame.




Colombia Inmaculada Eugenioides 

This is a Relationship Coffee from Inmaculada Coffee Farms. We contracted with Inmaculada, wiring the money directly and ended up purchasing four lots. We cupped the Eugenioides at a 90, due to its lack of bitterness, Eugenioides is very challenging to score on an SCA score sheet. We purchased this coffee for $55/lb and purchased 159 pounds in total. This coffee sold and performed so well that we then contracted another 474 pounds more for the same rate. These lots were air freighted, and Inmaculada was kind enough to split the cost of freight with us.





- Jon

















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