Specialty Coffee

• Country: Colombia
• Region: Quindio
• Farm: Finca Insula
• Varietal: Castillo
• Altitude: 1.650 meters above sea level
• Processing: Washed
• Score SCA: 84

The cherries get hand sorted at picking, later during the drying process and a third time after milling process to remove defects, which can only be spotted at the green bean.

This coffee has been dried on mechanical silo, a machine that blows hot air through drums. Producers adjust the temperature and the time necessary to dry coffee: through this method it assure an even drying. After drying, the coffee get packed in GrainPro bags and stored at the farm, at 20°C.

Usually after 1 month the coffee is stabilized ad ready for export

Cup Profile

Toffee, yellow orange, dark chocolate.

• Country: Ethiopia
• Region: Yirgacheffe
• Altitude: 1.800 meters above sea level
• Species: Arabica
• Varietal: Heirlooms
• Processing: Fully Washed, Sun-dried
• Score: 84,5

In the south of Ethiopia, about 400 km south of Adis Abeba, lies the home of Yirgacheffe coffees. The astonishing biodiversity in the local coffee plants has been preserved, resulting in unique, complex and sophisticated coffees which never cease to surprise.

More than 90% of the people in the region are involved in coffee business. Coffee is the dominant source of income for the majority of smallholder farmers, for whom coffee is everything: it sends their children to school, buys medication, and provides the livelihoods for families.

Cup Profile

Black currant, chocolate, floreal / jasmine like

• Country: Kenya
• Region: Kiambu
• Farm: Gifted
• Owner: Moses Kamura Nganga
• Altitude: 1.700 / 1.800 meters above sea level
• Species: Arabica
• Varietal: SL34, SL28
• Processing: Washed
• Fermentation: Anaerobic
• Score: 87,5

Moses Kamura Nganga owns three separate plots of land in the hills around his father’s farm. Each plot is around 1-2 acres and the terrain is extremely steep. The name Gifted was a result of amatutu (a minibus or similar vehicle used as a taxi) which he received from the father, he called that minibus Gifted so when his father gave hive him the farm he decided to use the same name Gifted for the farm.

The farm is 60km north of Nairobi along Ruiru Kiganjo road. Initially the farmer was delivering coffee to Kimaratia Factory, but he started pulping his own coffee around 2011 alongside his two brothers who also have farms in the same area.

Main flowering is January-February and fry crop flowering is October-November. The Coffee is pulped at the washing station at the family home, which is central to the three brother’s farms, and is then fermented overnight to breakdown the sugar before it is cleaned and washed in channels. Parchment is then spread out on raised drying tables.

Drying times depend on climate and ambient temperature, but the process can take up to three weeks. At night and during very hot periods, parchment is covered by shade cloth to avoid being affected by humidity and extreme heat.

Cup Profile

Yellow fruits, mandarin

Project Coffee for Gender Equity

• Country: Guatemala
• Region: Huehuetenango
• Producer: 22 women small owners
• Harvest period: January – April
• Altitude: 1,400 – 1,600 meters
• Species: Arabica
• Varietal: Bourbon, Catuai, Caturra
• Processing: washed and sun dried
• Score: 84,0

La Morena
The cultivation of coffee has always been a production completely dominated by men and gender equality in this field is far from being achieved. Even in Guatemala where it is very difficult for peasant women to make room and thrive in the world of coffee.
La Morena is a coffee produced entirely by women and is part of a project created to support the work and production capacity of peasant women also in Guatemala.
The project aims to create a coffee produced exclusively by women, inserted in a market defined for their coffee, for which they receive a fair price.
In addition to work in the field, the project also addresses the problem of female cultural education. Thanks to the collaboration with the Wakami Foundation, an organization that takes care of women living in rural areas, it accompanies them to create sources of income for their families by supporting them in entrepreneurial training. Wakami provides training in finance, accounting and market access for rural women.

Cup Profile
Fresh aroma, strong body, supported by hints of earl grey, dark chocolate, white sugar, citric acidity.