This month at Blue Coffee Box, we are featuring 6 new gourmet coffees for August. Instead of doing a post on each coffee, we decided to put them all in one place for you.
Below you will find the list, as well as the roasters we are sourcing these coffees from this month as well.
Gourmet Coffees for August
Los Pirineos
Producer: Gilberto Baraona
Varietals: Red Bourbon
Processing: Mechanical demucilage & dried on raised beds
Altitude: 1200-1550m
Country: El Salvador
Region: Usulutan
Cupping Notes: Green apple, orange, milk chocolate, honeycomb
Roaster: Rounton Coffee Roasters
The farm and Mill have 50 full-time employees taking on a further 75 during the peak of the harvest. Gilberto's obsession with quality means he pays well above the legal minimum wages to all his staff.
He requires far more precision and attention to detail than the average coffee farm and so must invest time and money in the people who manage the processing. Due to the training and support, he offers even his temporary staff are consistent from year to year. Gilberto's dedication to quality is uncompromising.
He has the largest coffee seed bank in private hands in El Salvador and is constantly testing and exploring new options for unique cup character.
There is real precision to the work with a team of people constantly turning the coffee to ensure the most uniform drying. Some of the coffee will be sun-dried whereas all-black honey coffee will be shade dried on 128 small individual beds.
Huabal
Producer: Multiple producers
Varietals: Mixed
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1750-1800m
Country: Peru
Region:
Cupping Notes: Baked apple, pear, prune
Roaster: Rounton Coffee Roasters
Since Huabal is part of Jaen, it hasn't had much of investment in roads and infrastructure. This means that Huabal is much more isolated and inhabitants have difficulty moving between villages and to Jaen city, making the flow of materials for construction and investment from local businesses limited.
Coffee producers in Huabal have very little access to training and direct markets since local buyers dominate and prices are kept low by intermediaries controlling the supply chains, which ultimately means that they are unable to invest in their farms.
Despite this, Huabal is one of the districts with the most potential for quality coffee, with ideal growing conditions, a lot of pure arabica varieties and a unique micro-climate that gives a very distinct cup profile which can rival the best coffees in Latin America.
Daniela San Marcos
Producer: Gutierrrez family
Varietals: Caturra, Catuai
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1600m
Country: Costa Rica
Region: San Marcos, Tarrazu
Cupping Notes: Stone fruit, peach, apricot
Roaster: Horsham Coffee Roasters
This farm in San Marcos is one of four different farms belonging to the Gutierrez family and is managed by Daniela.
She is 25 years old and studied Engineering before returning to her family farms to take over the wet and dry milling operation. The farm was founded in 2009 and the family
This lot from San Marcos is a washed Caturra and Catuai mix. Coffee is harvested by hand to select only the ripe cherry and after this, the fruit is removed using a Penagos Eco Pulper.
These use less water than most other machines. After the fruit is removed the coffee is laid to dry on concrete patios for about 15 days. During the drying, the coffee is turned on an hourly basis to ensure even and consistent drying.
Finca Los Pinos
Producer: Luis
Varietals: Caturra, F8
Processing: Natural
Altitude: 1500m
Country: Colombia
Region: San Pedro, Tolima
Cupping Notes: Honey yellow fruit, berries
Roaster: Horsham Coffee Roasters
Colombia is the third-largest producer of coffee in the world after Brazil and Vietnam though holds the crown for being the largest producer of washed Arabica.
The coffee-producing areas lie among the foothills of the Andes and the Sierra Nevada, where the climate is temperate with adequate rainfall.
Colombia has three secondary mountain ranges (cordilleras) that run towards the Andes and it is amongst these ranges that the majority of coffee is grown.
The hilly terrain provides a wide variety of micro-climates, meaning that harvesting can take place throughout the year as coffee from different farms will ripen at varying times.
Inambari Cooperative
Producer: 48 smallholders
Varietals: Bourbon, Caturra
Processing: Fully Washed
Altitude: 1600-1700m
Country: Peru
Region: Puno
Cupping Notes: Dark chocolate, baking spice, macadamia
Roaster: Caravan Coffee Roasters
This espresso has been produced by the Inambari Cooperative in the South Eastern district of Puno, Peru.
The 48 families that form the Coop all descend from the indigenous Quechuan culture and farm their ancestral lands using traditional techniques that have been
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Once processed an arduous 7-day journey to port that sees the dried parchment coffee cross over the Andean mountains at 4750 masl, making this one of the most logistically challenging regions worldwide for coffee production.
Moshi AB
Producer: Kilimanjaro Estate
Varietals: KP, N39,
Processing: Washed and dried on raised beds
Altitude: 1500m
Country: Tanzania
Region: Moshi
Cupping Notes: Blackcurrant Jam, black grape, caramel
Roaster: Caravan Coffee Roasters
Caravan Coffee's work with the Kilimanjaro plantation in Moshi has brought some unique
The volcanic soil and altitude lending themselves to high-quality coffee production. KPL has invested heavily into the local area, and have provided internships, apprenticeships, and educational funds to further community development.
In addition, they pay living wages to the workers on the estate as well as providing solid revenue to local co-ops through land leasing.
Working with producers that can provide traceable, high-quality coffees alongside sustainable and ethical production is something Caravan has always been proud of.
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