Washed Coffee

Grown at an average altitude of 1,800 meters in the mountains of San Juan Sacatepéquez, this Geisha is washed, then fermented in barrels. The coffee plants grow tall and gangly and have low output, so pickers make many passes to catch only ripe cherries. At the mill, a dedicated line is calibrated…

This Altieri Chombi Geisha is a direct trade coffee that was processed at a facility in Alto Lino, Boquete, where it underwent flotation to remove low-density beans, followed by mechanical pulping. It was transferred to fermentation tanks with mucilage intact, where temperatures ranged from 15°C…

Musa Abalulesa farms in Gomma, Agaro, in Ethiopia's Limu region. He and his brothers, Mustefa and Gugu, each manage their own small holdings, with Musa and Mustefa jointly running two farms outside Beshasha, known as Koye and Chanko. The land sits at 2,100 meters and was once dense jungle before it…

In Guatemala, women make up the majority of the coffee labour force but own disproportionately few assets and face significant barriers within the industry. The ELLA program was created to address this gap, providing participating farmers with market access and a stable buyer, along with…

Maria Estela is a key figure in the El Morito association, farming at 1790 to 1850 masl in the Cajamarca region of northern Peru. She works alongside her three children, cultivating Yellow Caturro, Marshell, and Bourbon, and manages all post-harvest processing on-farm. Two of her children are…

The Chelbesa Washed Lot is produced at the Chelbesa One Washing Station in the Gedeb Zone, Ethiopia (Chelbesa is the “kebele”), and managed by our partners SNAP Specialty Coffee. The approximately 1,000 farmers that deliver cherry to this washing station, come from the region and have between 2 and…

This is the ultimate everyday coffee, sweet, clean and smooth. Creativa Coffee District or CCD is a forward-looking Specialty Coffee Processor in the Chiriquí province in Boquete, Panama. By transforming a traditional wet mill and drying patio into a modern state-of-the-art processing facility, CCD…

In the highlands of the San Martin Cuchumatanes, a sisterhood of 276 courageous women coffee farmers has gathered to fight impossible odds. Meet Todos Santos, a collective known as ‘Mujeres luchando por un mejor futuro’, or Women Fighting for a Better Future. In this remote part of Huehuetenango,…