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Yipao roasts the Colombian coffee in San Diego.
Colombian Mocha
Yipao roasts the Colombian coffee in San Diego.
Curator’s note
Maria Bahamon and Jairo Martinez, both from Ibagué, Colombia's coffee capital, and in San Diego since 2012, opened their first coffee window here in the summer of 2020, a counter inside Kairoa Brewing that sells nothing but Colombian coffee. Jairo roasts and Maria, a Q grader, grades every batch, and the producers they buy from come to town: one of their Tolima growers cupped his own lots with the customers in April 2023.
The Coffee
The pour-over is brewed on a Hario V60 and each lot is roasted to its use, the Caturro Castillo from San José dark-medium on an espresso profile. The decaf is a washed Castillo from Planadas in Tolima, the batch brew changes with the season, and a nitro runs on the cold side.
- Blue Gesha Natural, Monteverde, Tolima
Colombia, Rio Blanco, Tolima · 1900 MASL
- Varietals
- Blue Gesha
- Process
- Natural
- Producer
- Finca Monteverde, Newerley Gutierrez Falla
maple syrup · lime · caramel · mango
- Bourbon Sidra Natural, Las Flores, Bruselas, Huila
Colombia, Bruselas, Huila · 1780 MASL
- Roast
- Medium
- Varietals
- Bourbon Sidra
- Producer
- Las Flores, Johan Vergara
peaches · cacao nibs · red wine · blackberries
- Tabi Washed, Samaria, Belen de Umbria, Risaralda
Colombia, Belen de Umbria, Risaralda · 1500 MASL
- Roast
- Medium
- Varietals
- Tabi
- Process
- Washed, 24 hours with mucilage, sun drying in African beds with temperature control
- Producer
- Finca Samaria, Gerardo Escobar and Enriqueta Ceballos
chocolate · vanilla · nuts
- Pacamara Natural, Nasawe'SX, Gaitania, Tolima
Colombia, Gaitania, Tolima · 1850 MASL
- Roast
- Medium
- Varietals
- Pacamara
- Process
- Natural
- Producer
- Finca el Marchito, Justiniano Paya
cacao nibs · mango · prune · cinnamon
- Green Wush Wush Honey, Rio Blanco, Tolima
Colombia, Rio Blanco, Tolima · 1900 MASL
- Varietals
- Green Wush Wush
- Process
- Yellow honey
- Producer
- Finca Monteverde, Newerley Gutierrez Falla
orange blossom · chocolate · tamarind · mango
- Red Wush Wush Natural, Rio Blanco, Tolima
Colombia, Rio Blanco, Tolima · 1900 MASL
- Varietals
- Red Wush Wush
- Process
- Natural
- Producer
- Finca Monteverde, Newerley Gutierrez Falla
cacao nibs · cinnamon · rosemary
- Caturro Castillo Washed, San José, Belen de Umbria, Risaralda
Colombia, Belen de Umbria, Risaralda · 1920 MASL
- Varietals
- Caturro, Castillo
- Process
- Washed
- Producer
- San José Farm, Gerardo Escobar and Enriqueta Ceballos
floral · citrus · caramel
The Vibe
A black awning and a round Estd 2018 sign mark Yipao's counter, with a yellow umbrella over the sidewalk tables and a white-tiled half wall under the counter. Inside, the bar runs beside the brewery's steel tanks, a black grinder and the bagged lots lined along the counter under a patterned mural.
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