L53 values the importance of traceability for our customers, allowing them to know which variety of coffee they are buying all the way to the exact day it was harvested. For us, Traceability is an art, that of tracing coffee grains from a single point of our farm all the way to your cup.
VARIETAL SELECTION AND PLANTING /
L53 carefully selects coffee varietal; when selecting varieties we measure two main characteristics, it's quality potential at high altitudes and its yield potential. Our nursery follows best practices for raising healthy plants, incrementing the livelihood of the plants once they are placed on the fields. L53 delimitates areas for a specific varietal to prevent them from getting mixed at the time of the harvest.
HARVEST AND DRY MILL /
Lots delimitation at L53 Farms, allows pickers and personnel at the farm to know exactly what variety they are harvesting. This also allows us to be able to process the coffee at the wet mill separated by varieties.
Each Variety at the Wet Mill level is classified by quality types, first, second, flouters. This coffee is packed separately and marked individually. This is the first time the coffee variety has been classified by quality and it is sent to the Wet Mill with its proper label.
Each truck is sent to the Dry Mill with a receipt that contains: Variety, weight, quality, Drivers Name, Truck ID.
L53 measures the number of beans per pound from each variety. This helps L53 have a more accurate harvest estimate.
HARVEST AND WET MILL /
L53 is a co-owner of the Dry Mill La Providencia, where all of its coffee is processed.
La Providencia receives the load that comes from the farm trucks by qualities and varieties. At this time, quality control is done to see mechanical or animal damage (drill bit, bitten, or peeled).
The mechanical malfunctions that cause these damages (peeled and bitten) are immediately adjustable at the farm, if they are caused by Broca it only allows us to know how good or bad control we perform during the year. At this time, La Providencia generates a receipt for each independent Lot, giving it the Name of the Farm, Variety, and quality of the coffee, percentage of damage with which it is received, its total weight, if it is certified or not.
This receipt number is a unique number with which it is followed up until the moment of the shipment, it allows us to know in which Container and for which customer that specific coffee goes.
Before the coffee leaves the drying patios, samples are collected and tested for moisture and quality. All lots go through the Tasting laboratory and at this time that receipt is given a quality classification by the laboratory.
The simple fact of managing the varieties and the tastings independently allows us as producers to create blends with our own coffees and improve the profiles that we would like to obtain or create something more successful to the taste of the buyer.
EXPORT /
L53 is owns the L53 Estates Exporting Company.
Getting to know what we have in warehouses, at the time of sending both the approval samples to our clients, and at the time of assembling the container (275 bags of 69kg), we know exactly what batch is being used to make that container.
The information is so detailed that we can know what day it arrived at the Wet Mill, what day that coffee was cut on the farm, and from which specific lots it comes.
We can know how many days it was drying in the patios before giving the correct percentage of humidity, what cup/quality it gave when it got up from the patios, and what cup/quality it gave after the necessary time of rest.