Colombia - Pride Coffee Collective

Taste notes: dark chocolate, pecan, peach
Variety: Blend
Region: Planadas, Tolima
Altitude: 1450-1850 meters
Process: Washed
Producer: Pride Coffee Collective

Pride is a medium-to-light roast and is best used as an espresso. It is served exclusively at Thrive Coffee House and is available online.

Shipping

Our coffees are roasted freshly every Friday. After roasting, shipping will take around 2-3 days. Keep in mind our coffee is standard shipped as whole beans. Write us in the order notes in case you would like your coffee ground.

Sudus

This year, we got to know Nicolás, co-founder of Sudus. He started Sudus in Armenia, Quindío, Colombia, to improve diversity in coffee production. Sudus focuses on sustainable farming and pesticide-free coffee production. In addition, Sudus promotes ecological projects such as Polinizadores, which create floral corridors to restore biodiversity and improve ecosystem health on coffee farms. This network of partner growers is rewarded for the environmental services they provide, while also producing high-quality coffees. 

Pride Coffee Collective

We fell in love with several lots we tasted from Sudus. One of these is the coffee from Pride Coffee Collective in Planadas, Tolima. This collective was started by a farmer from the LGBTIQ+ community who decided to transform her story to create dignified opportunities for the rural queer community. Pride Coffee Collective offers her 12 members visibility and empowerment in a traditionally conservative industry. What began as a brand has now become a cause and a community that finds a path to inclusion and resilience in coffee farming. 

We selected their single-origin farm blend. It is a great coffee as a base for espresso and as a light to medium-bodied filter coffee, with a focus on body and chocolate notes. Together with peach-like acidity and pecan as a nutty base, it is also expressive in a milk drink.