Generations of experience in the coffee industry have taught us at El Borbollon that passion and quality coffee make for a mill worth remembering. Ever since 1985, we´ve been working as a close knit company with our clients and partners.
Our coffee is world - renowned for its high quality and flavor. As important as production techniques are to us, we are as equally committed to developing sustainable practices to preserve the environment from which our quality coffee originates. We look to establish long lasting, solid relationships with our producers and buyers, creating a spirit of closeness, cooperation. We train pickers only to select the ripest cherries. They selectively pick only the cherries that are at the peak of their maturity, leaving green and unripe ones to further maturation and be harvested at a later time.
We evenly distribute coffee throughout raised beds, allowing fresh air to easily flow from beneath and above the coffee. Some of our beds are shade dried while others are dried with direct sunlight. We have trained staff responsible only for raised beds to ensure constant check-ups, movements and pristine conditions on these. We strictly use clay patios to dry the coffee beans, which helps the moisture under the beans absorb into the tiles, enabling the beans to fully dry. We evenly distribute the coffee on our mill's expansive patios, creating rows of coffee which are turned every 45-60 minutes. This method allows the coffee bean to be slowly dried by direct sunlight, the warmth of the clay patio and manual aeration.
Our coffee is stored in wooden silos and bags according to the farm and its cupping grade: SHG, A, AA, AAA and ML. Our repository is made so the coffee can remain with shallow light, cool temperature and stable humidity levels.
Once the coffee beans are ready for export, they go through a hulling machine that removes the coffee's outermost parchment layer. The beans then go through multiple screenings in which they are separated by size, density and color. Defective beans are removed, and only the beans that meet desired quality standards are exported.
