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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Long Play Decaf; not a documentary photograph

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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Long Play Decaf; not a documentary photograph

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🇨🇴Colombia

Long Play Decaf

Roasted by Verve Coffee RoastersRoaster's website
TagsColombiaHuila and CaucaMedium roastMolassesArabicaBlendVerve Coffee RoastersIndependent
Blend: ColombiaMedium roast
Brand
Verve Coffee Roasters
Roaster website
Visit website
Countries
Colombia
Regions
Cauca · Huila
Town
—
Farm / Station
Varies by component — see below
Farmer / Producer
Multiple contributors — see blend components
Species
Arabica
Type
Blend
Grade
Not specified
Varieties
—
Process
See individual components
Roast
Medium
Tasting notes
pineberry, golden raisin, molasses
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
—
Why some details are blank
  • region idThe blend spans Huila and Cauca; one region relationship would misrepresent the composition.
  • farm idThe blend contains multiple lots and no complete set of source farms is published.
  • producer idThe named contributors are separate people and organizations, not one composite producer identity.
  • altitude mOnly a 1,700–2,050-meter range is published, so no midpoint was invented.
  • component percentagesVerve names the contributors, cultivars, and source regions but not their proportions.
  • fermentation and dryingWashed and natural components are disclosed, but lot-level protocols and durations are not.
  • harvestThe current page does not publish component harvest dates.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available from the public listing.
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Sourcing explained

Who grew each part of this blend?

This coffee combines separately grown lots. A producer named for one component is not the grower of the entire blend. Washed and natural Colombian lots from Nestor Lasso, Caficauca, and a collective of women producers in Huila; cultivars Caturra, Colombia, and Pink Bourbon. Component and cultivar percentages are not published.

Nestor Lasso lot

Country:
Colombia
Research note:
Producer source named by Verve; component percentage not disclosed.

Caficauca lot

Country:
Colombia
Region:
Cauca
Research note:
Component percentage not disclosed.

Huila women producers collective lot

Country:
Colombia
Region:
Huila
Research note:
Component percentage not disclosed.

Check the roaster’s current component disclosure ↗

The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

A blend contains several origin chains, not one farmer or country. The component records above show each documented origin; undisclosed details stay undisclosed.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Long Play Decaf
  2. 02
    The brand
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Verve Coffee Roasters
  4. 04
    Varieties
    Not disclosed
  5. 05
    Farms / processing sites
    Not disclosed
  6. 06
    The growers
    Multiple contributors — see component details above
  7. 07
    Regions
    Cauca · Huila
  8. 08
    Countries
    Colombia
From the producer

Long Play combines distinct lots from Nestor Lasso, Caficauca, and a collective of women producers in Huila. These are separate contributor identities, not a single producer organization, and their component percentages are not published.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters assembles washed and natural Colombian lots, then sends the coffee to Descafecol for Sugar Cane ethyl-acetate decaffeination before medium roasting.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Long Play separates three traceability layers often collapsed in decaf: named source groups, original washed and natural processing, and a later Sugar Cane ethyl-acetate decaffeination step at Descafecol.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Original lot processing

The blend combines washed and natural coffees from Huila and Cauca; component percentages and lot-level protocols are not published.

02
Sugar Cane decaffeination

Descafecol uses ethyl acetate associated with the Sugar Cane method to extract caffeine from the green coffee.

03
Medium roasting

Verve lists Long Play at 5/10 on its roast scale.

What was added?

Ethyl acetate is used during the decaffeination step; “Sugar Cane” does not mean sugar is added as a flavoring.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, spice, post-roast flavoring, or co-fermentation ingredient is disclosed.

Why it matters

Separating original cherry processing from later decaffeination keeps the provenance accurate and prevents the decaf method from replacing the washed and natural component histories.

What you might taste

Pineberry, golden raisin, and molasses.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.vervecoffee.com/products/long-play-decaf
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

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What we found

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