Caldas Co-op Anserma

100% Naturally Decaffeinated Coffee – 99.7% Caffeine Free!

An outstanding decaf. Our Colombia decaf coffee uses an organic compound derived from sugar cane to remove the caffeine from the coffee bean.

The Cooperativa de Caficultores de Anserma (Co-op Anserma for short) connects farmers across the municipalities of Anserma, Belalcazar, Risaralda, San José and Viterbi. The coop lies in Colombia’s Coffee Triangle - Eje Cafetero, the heartland of Colombia’s coffee industry - responsible for a significant portion of Colombia’s total coffee production.

The decaffeination process uses a mix of acetic acid (vinegar) and natural extract fermented from sugarcane juice.

The green coffee beans are steamed and then soaked in the sugarcane-derived solution in which caffeine is removed from the coffee beans. The coffee beans are then removed from the now caffeine-rich sugarcane solution.

What's notable about this process is its sustainability. The extracted caffeine-ethyl acetate mixture can be processed to separate the caffeine from the ethyl acetate, making it possible to recycle and reuse the ethyl acetate for future decaffeination processes.