COLOMBIA • KAROL ORTEGA

POSSIBLY MAYBE

COLOMBIA • KAROL ORTEGA

FLAVOR PROFILE

Cinnamon Hearts

Mango

Key Lime Pie

Body: Silky

Acidity: Bright

Sweetness: Spiced

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BEANOLOGY

Origin: El Mirador, San Agustín, Huila — Colombia

Producer: Karol Ortega

Farm: La Hormiga

Varietal: Sidra

Elevation: 1900–2000 Meters

Process: Fully Washed

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BEANOGRAPHY

Possibly Maybe is the wild card — the coffee that refuses to behave politely in a lineup. This edition comes from Karol Ortega in Huila, Colombia, and it is exactly the kind of cup that earns the name: unexpected, expressive, and beautifully hard to pin down.

Karol is a young member of the Monkaaba collective project, a network of smallholders working to build a more transparent and stable route for exceptional coffees. Many producers in the group share the same challenge: growing remarkable coffee while still fighting for dependable markets, long-term guarantees, and real respect for their work. Through Monkaaba and Semilla, this lot is part of a more intentional model built on feedback, autonomy, and collective support.

The coffee itself is Sidra, and it shows. The cup opens with floral spice — cinnamon hearts, orange blossom, and sweet aromatic heat — before moving into tropical fruit notes of mango, pineapple, and papaya. The finish lands with citrus brightness and a deeper, cookie-like sweetness: key lime pie, fig newton, and molasses around the edges. It is playful, vivid, and a little bit mischievous. Exactly as Possibly Maybe should be.

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ORIGIN

El Mirador, San Agustín, Huila — Colombia

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PROCESSING METHOD

Fully Washed

In a fully washed process, the coffee cherry is depulped so the outer fruit is removed before fermentation and washing. This reduces the influence of extended fruit contact and allows the coffee’s cultivar character, growing conditions, and processing clarity to come forward more directly.

For Possibly Maybe, the washed process helps keep this Sidra lot bright, articulate, and expressive. The structure stays clean while the cup still carries vivid fruit, lifted florals, and sweet spice.

In the cup, this means cinnamon hearts, mango, key lime pie, orange blossom, pineapple, papaya, fig newton, and molasses around the edges — colourful, precise, and full of personality.

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PRODUCER SPOTLIGHT

Karol Ortega

La Hormiga Farm

Karol Ortega is the producer behind this Possibly Maybe lot from El Mirador, San Agustín, Huila, Colombia. The coffee comes from La Hormiga, his farm, where this Sidra lot was grown at 1900–2000 meters above sea level.

Karol is part of the Monkaaba collective project, which supports smallholder producers through feedback, market access, and a more stable route for exceptional coffees. This lot reflects that work clearly: expressive, carefully grown, and full of character.

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WHOLE BEAN

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SHIPPING

To preserve freshness and ensure timely delivery, in-stock coffee orders are shipped the same day or by the next business day. Most orders are added to the current week’s roast cycle and dispatched as soon as the freshly roasted beans are ready.

EXPÉDITION

Afin de préserver la fraîcheur et d’assurer une livraison rapide, les commandes de café en stock sont expédiées le jour même ou au plus tard le jour ouvrable suivant. La plupart des commandes sont ajoutées au cycle de torréfaction de la semaine en cours et expédiées dès que les grains fraîchement torréfiés sont prêts.

PICK-UP ORDERS

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