The Americas

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Guatemala

Country: Guatemala
Region: Antigua
Altitude: 1500-1700m
Varietal: Caturra, Yellow Bourbon, Catuai
Process: Washed, Sun-dried

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Antigua is widely recognized as one of the oldest and well known coffee growing regions of Guatemala. Unlike many Central American coffees, typically cultivated on steep aggressive terrain, the farmers of Los Volcanes have found success on the floor of the Antigua Valley. The lower altitude and surrounding volcanoes provide consistent low humidity, a shallow water table, and long cool nights as an alternative to the more harsh conditions common to Central American origins.

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Brazil Daterra

Country: Brazil
Region: Sal Paolo
Altitude: 1100m
Varietal: Bourbon
Process: Pulp Natural

Price: $14.00
12oz can

General Description: Brazil is the world leader in green coffee production, and DaTerra is a leader in sophisticated and sustainable production of high quality arabica coffee. The Sal Paolo region is a sub-tropical climate with low annual rainfall, resulting in a dry season perfect for natural processing. Rainforest Alliance Certified.


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Costa Rica

Country: Costa Rica
Region: Naranjo
Altitude: 3,900-4,400ft
Varietal: Caturra, Catuai, Bourbon
Process: Washed, Sun-dried

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Costa Rica is known for producing some of the well-balanced coffees in the world. Naranjo features of co-op of four separate farms that share a hydro-electric powered processing center. Farmers here use diverse agriculture with a variety of food crops in addition to coffee production. This diversity not only provides additional income but is a very effective way to provide a rich supply a nitrogen for their valuable coffee crops. Rain Forest Alliance Certified.


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El Salvador

Country: El Salvador
Region: Chaletenango
Altitude: 1500m
Varietal: Bourbon, Natural
Process: Washed, Sun-dried

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: The Santa Rita Estate can be found high in the mountains of the Chalatenango region of northern El Salvador. The farmers of this estate have preserved the organically rich volcanic soils and its surrounding ecosystem, thanks to the canopy of old growth shade trees. Take note that a peaberry occurs in only 5 percent of all beans harvested, this requires diligence when sorting and many believe results in a unique flavor that’s well worth the premium it fetches. Rainforest Alliance Certified.


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Mexican Chiapas

Country: Mexico
Region: Chiapas
Altitude: 1000-1500m
Varietal: Bourbon, Caturra, Mundo Novo, Maragogype
Process: Washed

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Chiapas is the southernmost state of the Mexican Republic and home to the Sierra Madre de Chiapas Mountain range. To it’s west, coffee growers of Oaxaca and Vera Cruz. To it’s East, the growers of Guatemala’s famed Huehuetenango region. Needless to say, these guys fit right in. From the high altitudes of the mountains down to the coastal regions along the Pacific, the dynamic changes in climate enable farmers to grow a large variety of crops. Year in and year out the coffees of Chiapas are grown in lush soils that have never been treated with pesticides or other chemicals. Organic.


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Nicaragua

Country: Nicaragua
Region: Matagalpa
Altitude: 1200m
Varietal: Maragogype
Process: Washed, Sun Dried

Price: $14.00
12oz can

General Description: Gold Mountain Coffee Farms is located in the mountains of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The farm gets its name from an age old nickname for the area, “La Zona de Oro”- the Zone of Gold. This central mountain range gives farmers a perfect balance of rain, sunshine, and shade for these varietals to flourish. This particular lot is strictly the varietal, Maragogype, characterized by its unusually large size.


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Peru

Country: Peru
Region: Chanchamayo Valley
Altitude: 4000-5200ft
Varietal: Typica, Bourbon and Caturra
Process: Washed, Sun Dried

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Peru La Florida is an organized group of over 1200 growers in the Chanchamayo Valley, Peru’s major coffee producing region. The slopes of the Andes mountains naturally provide an abundance of old growth trees, this canopy creates the shade for the coffee that is farmed beneath. Shade growing slows the development of the coffee fruit, prolonging the beans contact with its more sugary outer fruit, the thus resulting in a harder, more dense, more flavorful bean. Fair Trade, OCIA Certified Organic.


Indonesian and Island Coffees

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Bali Kintamani

Country: Bali
Region: Kintamani
Altitude: 3600-4800 feet
Varietal: Typica, Catimor, and Bourbon
Process: Natural

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Kintamani is the name of a mountainous volcanic highlands in northern Bali. The co-ops of Bali are a unique hybrid of commerce and Hindu principles, acknowledging the importance of their relationships with others and with the environment. The fragrance of this coffee is a colorful example of the wonders natural processing. Organic.


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Papua New Guinea

Country: Papua New Guinea
Region: Chimbu
Altitude: 4000-5000ft
Varietal: Blue Mountain, Typica, Bourbon, Caturra, Arusha
Process: Washed

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Papua New Guinea shares its island with the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya just north of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. This is not a nation that is rife with “estate” farming. Thousands of small towns with local gardens, ranging from 50-500 mature trees per town, form a collective of farmers allowing them to effectively pool their resources. This makes coffee a primary source of income to the people of PNG, all other forms of agriculture are strictly food for families. The Tribal Aromas co-op is made up of small growers spread throughout the remote areas of the Chimbu Province of PNG’s Eastern Highlands.

East Africa

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Ethiopian (Natural)

Country: Ethiopa
Region: Sidamo
Altitude: 1800-2000m
Varietal: Ethiopian Sidamo
Process: Natural

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: Brought to us by the Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union from southern Ethiopia, which comprises approximately 86,000 farmers from over 40 cooperatives. The intense exotic flavors exhibited by this lot are primarily the result of natural processing. Natural processed coffees are also referred to as “sun dried” as the coffee cherries are left to dry on raised beds beneath hot African sun. Ethiopia is known as the birthplace of coffee and home to an 800 year old coffee brewing tradition. It is the only country in Africa never to have been colonized and over half the coffee grown is consumed within it’s borders.

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Ethiopian (Washed)

Country: Ethiopa
Region: Sidamo
Altitude: 1400-2200m
Varietal: Ethiopian Sidamo
Process: Washed, Sun-dried

Price: $13.00
12oz can

General Description: The Providence of Sidamo sits in the highlands of southern Ethiopia at an altitude of 1400 to 2200m above sea level. In Ethiopia 25% of the population makes its living from coffee farming which is why its Africa’s top producing country. This arabica varietal is simply “Ethiopian Sidamo” because its grown exclusively and indigenously in this part of Ethiopia. Much of the farming practices are still done by hand in the wild. Its because of these ancient traditions, the coffees of Sidamo have long been recognized for their bright acidity and lemon-like snap in the cup. Organic, Fair Trade Certified.


Espressos

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BQE Espresso

Country: Guatemala, Brazil
Region: Antigua, Sal Paolo
Altitude: 1100-1400m
Varietal: Bourbon, Caturra
Process: Washed and Pulp Natural

Price: $14.00
12oz can

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