Producer: Christian Starry
Region: Amatitlán, Guatemala
Process: Fully Washed & Patio Dried
Variety: Red & Yellow Bourbon, Typica
Harvest: December 2019 - March 2020

This is the Xalum General Lot: the largest bulk of the main harvest. It's our go-to for a deep, chocolatey coffee. We've been working with Christian Starry & his family, who run El Xalum, for the past seven years; the farm is located near Lake Amatitlán, and the wet mill (pictured above) directly overlooks the lake.

When we first started working together in 2011, they were just coming back from a series of setbacks: battered by a hurricane, hit hard by the Coffee Leaf Rust epidemic, decline in pollinator populations and more. Since then, tremendous effort on the part of the Starry family has led to a new chapter being written for the family farm.

Xalum

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This is an SHB grade coffee from Finca El Rincon in La Libertad, Huehuetenango, known for its high altitudes, rainfall, lush shade and moderate temperatures.
This coffee was sourced from El Mirador Finca El Rincon in La Libertad, Huehuehtenango, which is managed by the Molina family. Roberta Molina purchased his 25 hectare farm back in 1968 and his wife Yolanda Golindo has taken up the care of the farm since his death in 2011. The coffee is grown between 1,550 and 1,700 meters above sea level, and the varietals include Bourbon and Caturra. The coffee is washed and patio dried.

El Rincon

Hunapu comes from the highland valley in Antigua. The Antigua Valley of Guatemala is one of the most famous and beautiful coffee growing regions and consistently produces high quality coffees that are sought out and favored by coffee lovers all over the world. Hunapu brews a robust cup with the distinctive notes of rich cocoa and sweet pome fruit.

This Antigua coffee is processed at Beneficio Bella Vista’s mills in the valley, and named after a group of small, local producers that Beneficio Bella Vista dubbed Hunapu after the Kaqchickel Hunapú. Later named Volcán de Agua or “Volcano of Water” by the Spanish, Hunapú is the largest of three volcanos that surround the Antigua Valley. 

Hunapu

This washed lot was grown by various smallholder members of New Ngariama Farmers Cooperative Society at altitudes reaching 1550 masl. Kiamugumo Factory is run by New Ngariama Farmers Cooperative Society, which includes around 1500 members.

Kiamugumo

Producer:	Wilmar Montoya
Farm:	La Loma
Region:	Antioquia, Colombia
Process:	Fully Washed & Sun-dried
Variety:	Caturra
Harvest:	2020 & 2021
Storage:	GrainPro™
Relationship:	Importer Contract

In Betulia, a town in Southwestern Antioquia Department, Colombia, Wilmar Montoya is one of the few farmers who continues to grow the Caturra varietal. Caturra, a natural mutation of the Bourbon variety, has a single-gene mutation that causes the varietal to grow smaller, known as dwarfism—this allows the plants to be placed closer together, enabling them to produce more fruit in the same space. But, this smaller varietal is also delicate; while Caturra once made up nearly half of Colombia’s production, few farmers now are willing or able to grow these plants because of their high susceptibility to diseases such as leaf rust. However, La Loma’s location, at over 2,000 meters above sea level, combined with Wilmar’s dedication allows his Caturra coffee to thrive.

Wilmar lives with his wife, Erika, and two daughters, Valentina and Luciana, at La Loma. He has been working with coffee for about 17 years, and has more recently begun focusing on specialty coffee. We have kept the name, La Loma, for this coffee to honor the hard work that the farmers and producers put into growing high quality, delicious coffee. 

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