Cupping Notes: Chocolate with mild brown sugar and dried cranberry flavours. Tart citric acidity and mellow sugary sweetness. A buttery finish/mouthfeel
Suited to: All Filter Brewing Methods
Process: Lactic - Honey
Botanical Cultivars: Bourbon & Caturra
Cooperative: Finca Concepcion, Buena Vista
Region: San Martin Jilotepeque, Chimaltenango
Altitude: 1500–2000 Metres above sea level
Harvest: September to April
Bernardo Solano owns this 129-hectare farm in the Chimaltenango region of Guatemala. He has 100 hectares planted in coffee.
Bernardo is an innovator in processing in the region and experiments with all processes at this farm. He has built infrastructure to support meticulous implementation of the most progressive practices here.
San Martin Jilotepeque is an incredibly beautiful area in Guatemala. This area was home to the Chajoma Kaqchikel kingdom whose capital city’s ruins can still be seen today at the archeological site of Jilotepeque Viejo. Nearly 90% of the population here identify as Mayan.
Guatemala, Finca Concepcion (WS)
This unique coffee is an amazing nitro-lactic macerated natural-processed coffee that took 3rd place in the 2022 Guatemala One of a Kind Auction put on by Anacafé and The Alliance for Coffee Excellence.
After picking, the coffee was macerated with nitrogen for 48 hours in an aluminum tank with 1.5 bars of pressure and a 5% concentration of lactic bacteria.
After removal from the tank, the coffee was carefully dried on raised beds in the greenhouse at the farm for 20 days. The resulting cup is incredibly complex and creamy—we taste cherry, bubblegum, turbinado sugar, & even pineapple juice!