Welcome to the Odd Bean collection. This project started from the idea of wanting to find a home for all the beans in our roastery that are waiting for someone to enjoy them. At the end of every week, we end up with small batches of leftover coffee beans that are carefully packed.

This is one of our ways to pursue a no-waste lifestyle and to give a longer life to the so-called odd beans. <3

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Bright and candy-like. Tasting like lychee, star fruit and sweet green grapes.

Origin: Colombia
Region: San Agustin, Huila
Producer: Various producers from the Monkaaba group: Orlando Quinayas, Diana
Quinayas, Jose Omar Muñoz, Rovira Salamanca, Stiven Hoyos
Elevation: 1600 - 1989 masl
Variety: Sidra
Process: Washed 

(Processing varies between producers, and each producer delivers their parchment to the Monkaaba bodega, where it is then tasted, analyzed, and chosen for this lot)

Roasted for: Filter

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We source this lot through our partners at Semilla and Monkaaba, and as always the way they work simply makes sense, serving a true purpose while also ensuring incredibly high quality. 

This lot is designed to ensure that small lots of higher-quality coffee are still able to be purchased despite their size. The vast majority of the producers involved in this blend manage very small plots, and as a result, are often delivering tiny amounts of coffee.

In the instance that they have more land, this allows Semilla to take small amounts that might come from a single pass and avoid waiting for a lot of size to be delivered from a single producer, in which time the quality might suffer. 

It’s a sad reality still of the global coffee system - and especially in a massive producing state like Huila - that the logistics and management around small lots are too costly or time-consuming to make economic sense for buyers. As a result, it’s not only that the quality must be high, it’s that a smallholder must have the requisite quantity as well to earn the higher prices they deserve.

Los Magnificos seeks to serve the purpose of opening opportunities and giving smallholders a steady ground to build from as they make the challenging steps of improving their post-harvest processing practices.  Even in small amounts, the revenue earned makes a difference, but more importantly, it opens a place for community, dialogue, and learning that is normally not offered to such smallholders. The result is often a holding pattern where buyers can benefit, and smallholders are motivated or incentivized to improve and grow.