Panama — Hachi Coffee Sakaeru (栄える) Gesha (Sous Vide)

Tastes Like — 🍈 Lychee • 🌼 Chamomile • 🫐 Mixed Berries • 🍊 Orange

DETAILS

• Producer: Hachi Coffee
• Roaster: Native Coffee
• Origin: Panama
• Varietal: Gesha
• Process: Sous Vide

INTRO

Sakaeru (栄える) — Japanese for "to flourish" — is the third and most technically distinctive expression in Native Coffee's Hachi Panama series. A sous vide processed Gesha of extraordinary aromatic precision, built on a technique borrowed from the culinary world and applied to coffee with remarkable results. In the cup: lychee sweetness, chamomile delicacy, mixed berries, and a bright orange finish — a profile of exceptional complexity and clarity.

THE PRODUCER

Hachi Coffee is a Panamanian specialty producer cultivating Gesha in the country's celebrated highland growing regions, where volcanic soils, cool temperatures, and cloud-laden microclimates create the conditions for exceptional cup quality. The Sakaeru lot represents Hachi's most experimental expression — a sous vide process that places the farm at the forefront of post-harvest innovation, combining Panama's extraordinary Gesha terroir with a processing technique that prioritises precision, control, and aromatic preservation above all else.

Gesha, first collected from the forests of Ethiopia in the 1930s and arriving in Panama via research stations in Tanzania and Central America in the 1960s, became the benchmark variety for competition baristas and specialty enthusiasts worldwide following its landmark 2004 Best of Panama debut. The sous vide process here allows every aromatic dimension of this celebrated variety to be captured and preserved with a level of precision that conventional processing methods cannot match.

THE PROCESS

The Sous Vide process involves:

🍒 Hand-picking — Gesha cherries selectively harvested at peak ripeness 🔍 Sorting — Only the finest ripe cherries selected before processing 🌡️ Vacuum sealing — Cherries sealed in vacuum bags, removing all oxygen from the fermentation environment 💧 Controlled water bath — Sealed cherries submerged in a temperature-controlled water bath, maintaining a precise and stable fermentation temperature throughout ⏱️ Precision fermentation — Fermentation proceeds under tightly controlled temperature and pressure conditions for a defined period, developing aromatic complexity with exceptional consistency 🔧 Depulping — Outer skin removed after sous vide processing ☀️ Drying — Dried to optimal moisture content

The temperature-controlled vacuum fermentation is the defining step — by sealing the cherries in a precisely controlled oxygen-free environment and maintaining a stable temperature throughout, Hachi Coffee achieves a level of fermentation consistency and aromatic preservation that is impossible with open-air methods, allowing every dimension of the Gesha's lychee, chamomile, and berry character to emerge with full clarity and precision.

THE CUP

The most technically ambitious expression in the Hachi series — lychee sweetness and chamomile florality of exceptional delicacy, mixed berry complexity running through the middle, and a clean orange brightness in the finish. Sakaeru: Gesha at its most flourishing, in every sense of the word.

Flavour Notes

🍈 Lychee 🌼 Chamomile 🫐 Mixed Berries 🍊 Orange