The Curator
Speciality coffee wood roasted the Italian way.
The Curator coffee roasters have a modern approach to a very traditional practice.
Matteo & Sarah Lamaro opened The Curator Cafe in 2012, on the day the Olympic torch passed through Totnes, with the aim of bringing high quality Italian products for everyone to enjoy in a special environment.
The Curator as a business has evolved with a small team of individuals passionate about coffee, good food and developing relationships with the local community.
Their core values are to ensure their practices and products are sustainable, fair and the best quality.
Coffee has always been at the centre of The Curator, staying loyal to the Italian tradition of wood roasted coffee.
They roast their coffee on a beautiful, bespoke wood-fuelled roaster made in Italy by Trabattoni; a family run business with generations of knowledge and experience in making wood-fired coffee roasters.
The Curator coffee is unique not only because they’re the first roasters in the UK to wood roast but also since the heat from wood fire provides more moisture and a slower heat, keeping more natural oils in the beans resulting in a less acidic, smoother finish.
This is what gives the Curator coffee its unique taste and velvet finish.
The Curator work closely with their coffee suppliers to source seasonal speciality beans with a scoring over 82.
They constantly strive to procure single origin, monovarietal beans whenever possible to celebrate the characteristics of each variety and ensure greater traceability.
Their beans are ethically and responsibly sourced to ensure farmers receive fair pricing and that their communities are able to sustain long term and viable production.
Using only sustainable local oak as a heat source, the skilled roaster feeds the fire to maintain the optimum temperature for the required bean type and taste profile.
The Origin
The Bolivar coffee from The Curator Coffee Roasters originates from the Antioquia region of Colombia.
The municipality of Ciudad Bolivar, located amongst lush vegetation, wide and majestic landscapes, has been named so since 1962 and through the hard work of the residents become an important centre for urban and rural development.
It now has the reputation of the “Capital of Southwest of Antioquia”. The imposing Samanes trees of the town square still afford the typical pleasure of Antioquia towns – the ability to gather in the shade with friends over a cup of coffee.
The main economic activities are agriculture -growing coffee, beans, plantain, sugar cane and yuca- and commerce.
The economy is based on coffee, and the district is one of the main producers of some of the best.
As a regional coffee, cherries are picked and wet processed and dried in silos on the individual farms and then brought to the central collection point where they are graded, quality controlled and tasted.
This grouping allows the character of the area to be maintained whilst providing access to a bigger market for the smallholder farmers, that typically would not be able to reach that far on their own.
What to Expect
Here’s an idea of what to expect from this wood roasted Colombian coffee from The Curator Coffee Roasters.
Team Batch brew method of choice - Moka Pot.
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