🌴 Tropical Fruit  •  🍓 Wild Berries  •  🌿 Lemongrass

Intro

Casa Tropical is one big, playful ride. The cup is dominated by an intense and sweet tropical fruit flavour, complemented in the background by juicy notes of wild berries — all wonderfully refreshed and brightened by a clean, sparkling hint of lemongrass. This is what's known as a mega blend, which means individual packages may vary slightly in flavour. However, the overall character remains uncompromisingly tropical, complex, and full of energy. The ideal filter coffee for those who are bored with classic, predictable profiles.

Details

The Producer

Behind Casa Tropical is Oscar Hernandez, an innovative producer at the renowned Colombian farm Finca Los Nogales, located at an optimal altitude of 1,750 MASL. Oscar is recognised in the global coffee community as a master of unconventional methods — a grower who doesn't wait to see what nature produces on its own, but actively intervenes in every stage of the growth and ripening process, transforming his farm into a state-of-the-art laboratory for coffees with an extraordinarily deep sensory profile.

For this unique mega blend, Oscar has assembled a diverse palette of varieties — Typica, Caturra, and Cenicafe — each contributing distinct characteristics to the final cup. The result is a coffee with a complexity and tropical energy that no single variety could produce alone. DAK Coffee Roasters, founded in Amsterdam and built on the philosophy of ethically sourced, carefully selected, and eco-friendly coffee, recognised Oscar's lot as something truly out of the ordinary.

The Process

What gives Casa Tropical its unique, slightly wild character is Oscar's proprietary Experimental Washed (High-Intervention) process — a radical departure from traditional washed processing:

• 🍒 Selective harvesting — Cherries hand-picked at peak ripeness across multiple varietals
• 🔬 Controlled fermentation — Chemical and microbiological variables strictly monitored throughout
• 🌡️ Temperature & time management — Processing conditions actively adjusted to unlock aromatic compounds
• 💧 High-intervention washing — Unlike minimalist washed processing, every step involves precise human input
• ☀️ Controlled drying — Dried under carefully managed conditions to preserve the extraordinary flavour development

This process awakens an unprecedented amount of aromatic compounds and distinctive fruity notes — characteristics more commonly found in natural coffees — while retaining the structural clarity of a washed process. The outcome is a coffee that is simultaneously clean and wildly expressive.

The Cup

An intense, sweet tropical fruit character leads the cup, with juicy wild berry notes layered underneath and a clean, sparkling lemongrass brightness refreshing the finish. Funky, energetic, and complex — yet underpinned by a precision and structure that only a carefully controlled process can deliver. Casa Tropical is a mega blend that defies expectations with every brew, and that's exactly the point.

Flavour Notes

🌴 Tropical Fruit    🍓 Wild Berries    🌿 Lemongrass