Verdant Burnthouse Coffee Porter ’25

A 5.5% Coffee Porter for our latest collaboration with Origin Coffee, an exceptional speciality coffee roaster located in Porthleven, just a short drive from our brewery. 

Like the first version brewed in 2023, we used our base porter recipe but increased the ABV to 5.5% to add more body and backbone for the coffee to bounce off. This time, we used a whopping 250kg (!) of coffee and introduced a new variety of coffee beans: Aponte.

Grown in Colombia’s Nariño region, Aponte is a honey-processed coffee from a collective of smallholders, many of whom belong to the indigenous Aponte community. Once driven into coca production, these growers now lead Colombia’s honey processing movement, producing coffees with exceptional clarity and nuance. Due to its high elevation and dry climate, Aponte undergoes slow, controlled drying, resulting in a smooth, layered cup with mellow stone fruit acidity.