KEEN Danilo Salazar – Costa Rica

Keen Coffee

Day in and day out, we work with coffee: testing and approving roasting profiles, selecting new crops and roasting to perfection to share with you.

At Keen Coffee we always search for the best coffees and the most unique flavours. We work directly with farmers, sampling their coffees through cuppings, selecting new crops, and supporting innovative projects to improve the quality of our coffees. Driven by innovation and obsessed with optimising coffee recipes.

Everyday we quest for the perfect cup and will not settle for less.

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Danilo Natural is named after the farmer that cultivated this lot: Danilo Salazar. Sadly, Danilo passed away last spring, so this will be the last lot of his coffee that we’ll be able to enjoy. We will always remember him as the farmer that we had the honour to serve his own coffee to on his own farm. It was a real treat to be serving coffee between the coffee plants that the beans you’re serving come from. A memory we’ll always cherish.
Danilo’s coffee is famous for being the coffee that fermentation wizard, Esteban, used to do his fermentation experiments on, which resulted in El Diamante. This coffee – Danilo Natural – however, was untouched by Esteban and his fermenting magic, hence the name ‘Natural’, it comes as it is.
After Danilo’s death, his son took over the plantation. So even though we won’t be able to drink coffee touched by Danilo himself anymore, his spirit lives on in his son, the plantation and his plants.