Butterfly Coffee Garden

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At Doka Estate Butterfly Coffee Garden we have 11 different species of butterflies as the Blue Morpho Butterfly, one of the most attractive in Costa Rica


When you visit Doka Estate Coffee Tour you will enjoy in a colorful garden with 2 levels one you will walk inside our garden, plants and butterflies, you will find small rivers coming through and if you go on the side will have a upper view of the gorgeous surroundings inside the garden as the coffee plantation.

Since a butterfly farm works towards minimizing the risks to a butterfly throughout the different stages of its life cycle, the survival rate can be brought up to as high as 90% in the farm.

At Doka Estate you will find 2 of the 11 species of butterflies we carried are breeding: the Blue Morpho and the Caligo know as the Owl Butterfly. Let us tell you more about this 2 amazing species.

The Neotropical Morpho Butterflies have metallic colors, with flashes of blue and green and the ventral side is brown. The eggs hatches into larvae are pale green with a drop of dew. They have reddish-brown body with bright lime green spots or yellow dorsal hand, the larvae molt four or six times before entering the pupal stage and adults live for about two or three weeks.

The other specie we want you to learn is Caligo known as Owl Butterfly, which stands out as a moth as well for their size. The larvae grow up to 15 cm long, almost 6 inches, and adults can exceed 20cm (around 8 inches). It´s common name comes from the large eyespots on the back of the wings, which seems like big eyes as an example of defense mechanisim.

If you want to visit Doka Estate Butterfly Coffee Garden please visit www.dokaestate.com

Did you know when is the harvest season in Doka Estate?

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In January during the harvest season Doka Estate receives around 65 “fanegas” every day approximately 1300 baskets with ripe coffee cherries

During November, December and January starts the harvest season when the coffee cherries ripen in the Poas Volcano Region. Every day the coffee pickers have to select manually the red coffee cherries during the day and around 3 pm the trucks comes to measure what they have picked and they are paid for the hard work, the measured for the payment is a coffee basket named “Cajuela”, and 20 “cajuelas” is 1 “fanega”.

 

Doka Estate Coffee Mill has more than 100 years processing coffee cherries. The first stage starts when the coffee is received into the siphon and then goes to the chancadora where these machines peels off the red skin of the coffee cherries to take out 2 coffee seeds that have to rest in the fermentation tanks where the natural sugars of the seeds are eliminated; then the coffee is washed and dried in the “patios” for around 4 days to get the perfect 11.5% of humidity to be storage until it´s ready to be processed for export and roast.

Right now during the harvest season Doka Estate Coffee Mill is receiving around 65 “fanegas” every day approximately 1300 baskets with ripe coffee cherries or 16.20 tons of fruit

Eventos en Doka Estate

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En Doka Estate (Coffee Tour) le ofrecemos una amplia opción de servicios para hacer de su evento social algo inolvidable.

Ubicados en Sabanilla de Alajuela,  con la infraestructura y ambiente ideal rodeados de amplias zonas verdes y vistas extraordinarias,  contamos con 2 salones, el principal Restaurante “La Cajuela” con una capacidad para 250 personas y Restaurante “El Trapiche” con capacidad para 150 personas.

Además ofrecemos  diferentes opciones de menú para almuerzos o cenas y servicios disponibles como: juegos de pólvora, carnaval, comparsa, mascarada, bailes típicos, transporte de invitados, serenatas, animación y mucho más.

No lo piense más y  contactenos para brindarle más infamación y asesoramiento para que su evento sea todo un éxito.

A Real Coffee Cake!

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I was confused when I noticed that Coffee Cakes are not coffee flavored, they are cakes you eat with a steamy cup of coffee. Now I would like you to try for this fall this moisture and tasty cake

Coffee Coffee Cake (Adapted from Macheesmo Cook Something recipe)
Makes a bundt cake or a 9×13 dish.

 Streusel:

- 3/4 Cups pecans or walnuts
- 1/2 Cups sugar
- 1 Teaspoon cinnamon

Cake:
- 3 1/3 Cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Teaspoons salt
- 2 Teaspoons baking powder
- 1 Teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 Cups buttermilk
- 3/4 Cups strong coffee as Espresso Italiano or Breakfast Blend,cold
- 2 Teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/2 sticks (12 Tablespoons) unsalted butter, soft
- 1 Cups sugar
- 3 large eggs

Glaze: (Optional)
- 1/4 Cup strong coffee
- 2 Cups sifted powdered sugar

I recommend instead of instant coffee to try with our Breakfast Blend, a combination of Costa Rican Poás Volcano Region Doka Estate of light, medium and Peaberry coffee; brewing a really strong pot of french press coffee or coffee maker (use 50% more coffee than usual 20 grams per 5 oz of water) and use it in place of some of the liquid. 

 

1.       The Streusel. Mix the finely chopped nuts in the food processor with the cinnamon and sugar and set it aside for later.      

2.       Prepare the liquids and mix them in a bowl together.  This will smell really intense. The brewed coffee must be cool, out of the refrigerator.

3.       Also mix together all the dry stuff in a separate bowl and set it aside.

4.       Making the Batter. Using a stand mixer or a hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar together until they’re light and fluffy, about 5 minutes with a stand mixer or 10 with a hand mixer.  Then add the eggs one at a time, mixing in between each one.

5.       Next, you need to incorporate the dry ingredient mix and the wet stuff into the creamed butter. Switch between the dry ingredients and the liquid ones

6.       If you’re using a bundt cake, be sure to lightly butter and flour the pan so the cake comes out easily after baking.  Then pour HALF of your batter into the prepared pan and even it out.

7.       Add all your streusel evenly and then pour the rest of your batter over the streusel.  It’s okay if some of the streusel is poking through; just do your best to even everything out.

8.       Baking the Cake. Bake your coffee cake at 350 degrees until a wooden skewer comes out clean.  Mine took about an hour.  Be sure to check it with a skewer though because depending on the pan you’re using, your cooking time could vary by 10-15 minutes.

9.       Anyway, you’ll end up with this delicious looking thing which you should let cool on a rack for 10 minutes.

10.   Once it’s reasonably cool, you should be able to remove it from the pan pretty easily.  I just flip my pan over onto a plate and the cake should come out.  If you’re worried about it, slide a knife around the edges to loosen it.

11.   The Glaze. I decided to prepare a quick coffee glaze for the cake also.  Just combine some coffee with sifted powdered sugar until its smooth.  Then drizzle it over the cake!  Be sure that the cake is cool before you glaze it though.  I let mine cool for about an hour before I glazed it.

               12. Slice it up and serve it!  This cake will keep pretty moist for 3 or 4 days as long as you don’t slice it all and  wrap it well in plastic wrap.

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This Week Recommendation: DOKA ESTATE BREAKFAST BLEND

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Do you love Doka Estate Peaberry AA? Then you will find our Breakfast Blend as a juicy and bright way to start your morning; because it’s our combination of Doka Estate light roast (European), medium roast (French) and our exotic Peaberry.

The coffee is 100% Arabica beans and it has being grown at the slopes of the Poas Volcano Region in Costa Rica´s Central Valley, where through the volcanic soils and the altitude of 4.430 feet above sea level (1.350 m.a.s.l) this coffee exhales the freshness and flavorful of Costa Rican Breakfast.

Breakfast Blend (Light and Medium Roast)

Aroma: crispy orange

Acidity: bright

Body: light and mild

Flavor: clean and tangy

Our recommendation is to enjoy Doka Estate Breakfast Blend next to a Gallo Pinto with your favorite Egg and a plate of fruits.

GALLO PINTO RECIPE (Rice and Beans)¹

2 cups of freshly cooked black beans with the

4 cups of cooked rice (better if it is from the day before)    

2 tablespoon of bell pepper, finely chopped

4 tablespoons of onion finely chopped

4 tablespoons of coriander finely chopped

1 clove of garlic finely chopped

2 tablespoons of vegetable oil

½ tablespoon of Salsa Lizano

Hot pepper (optional)

Salt as desire or seasoning

Sautee onion and bell pepper in oil for 1 minute in a medium flame then add the beans and cook them for 3 minutes not let them dry. Add the rice mix them together and cook them 3 more minutes, now add the Lizano sauce (or chile picante) and the coriander, mix well, garnish this fresh cilantro or bacon crumbs, if desire top with a little bit or sour cream.

1 Meals a la Tica. Costa Rican Cook Book. Sandy. 2010

Peaberry

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Peaberry is really a special bean and it can be found in every coffee plant, but at Doka Estate we sort all the beans to find the best Peaberry, then is craft roasted and we send them to you.

How it happens?

During the pollination of the flower usually each cherry develops 2 seeds, where for their positions one side is flat and the other rounded, but when only fertilize one its where the magic stars because it gives space for one bean to concentrate de flavor of two, and the shape changes as oval similar to a pea one of the most distinguish characteristics: a round coffee seed

What you will find in Doka Estate Peaberry cup?

Roast:   Medium

Aroma: Lively and intense

Acidity: bright

Body: medium

Flavor: sweet with lime notes

We encourage you to enjoy the sweetest notes of this particular coffee every day.

Thanks for a Fun Day at Doka Estate Coffee Tour

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On behalf of all Doka Estate Coffee Tour staff and specially Adriana, thank you very much for visiting us and for your positive comments and photographs, these are the ones we need in order to keep sharing our knowledge with a smile and gathering satisfied customers every morning when we open our doors because do what we love: Coffee and enjoy with you as Visitor to Doka Estate Coffee Tour.

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