Our Coffee barn has been custom roasting for As Green As It Gets for over a year. It just seemed funny for us to keep buying our Guatemalan coffee from anyplace else. On August 11 2011 I called AGAIG and now we are buying our Antigua direct from the growers! This is just one of a few coffees I hope to buy direct like this. Remember Direct Trade is getting all of the money back to the growers and IMHO is far better than any Fair Trade Certified coffee.
As I write this post a new Roasters Rant video is being uploaded to our YouTube Channel, I will post the video here too when it is ready.
We are VERY close to selling out the bag of Colombia Kogui Tribe coffee I bought last week. Sales went very well and I felt that it was cupping so good here that I ordered 10 bags on a forward contract with Cafe Imports! The bad part is I have it available, but not here to roast and ship. I hope to pick up an order of coffee tomorrow so if I do it will be in stock.
Also I think I listed it wrong as an Excelso, so the name may change a little.
Thank you to all of our customers who ordered after we sent the email about the Burundi Kiryama.
It got a little busy here, with the family, American Legion and work that I didn’t get a Talk To The Roaster show recorded. I will get one next week.
Today looks like an average Friday as far as roasting coffee goes, 15 or 16 batches to roast.
But I do have some new listings to write or rewrite today and through the weekend, a new crop of an old Colombia Supremo Los Naranjos MicroLot is one of them. Watch for the listing to come soon. I will post the description below here to tease a little.
Here is a video of the farm taken by Cafe Imports.
THE BEAN
ID# 3105
Name: San Agustin, Huila, Asociacion Los Naranjos, Julio Gomez
Origin: Colombia
Region: Hamlet of Nueva Zelanda, San Augustin Huila
Farm: Julio Gomez
Varietal: Caturra
Altitude: 1800 Meters
Proc. Method: Fully Washed, 14-18 Hours Fermentation
Through the town of San Augustin runs a river called Los Naranjos. Up the sides of this riverbank in to the mountains is a community of coffee growers with small clean and beautiful farms. Butterflies, Hummingbirds and giant lavender flowers are the norm.
This land is buffeted on the west by a 500 sq mile biosphere reserve called Cueva de los Quacharo. It is the place where two of Colombias three mountain ranges converge and where ancient peoples lived and carved giant stone figures. It is a special place and the people who live here believe that the great forest tracts of the natural preserve protect their land from the violence of weather and give them a calm, peaceful place to live and farm.
In 2001, Some of the farmers of this area got together with the intentions of improving their managerial skills and gaining access to the elusive “specialty coffee market,” and they formed an association called La Asociacion Los Naranjos de San Augustin.
Today there are 50 grower/members with about 150 hectares in coffee. Average size of a farm is 2.8 hectares. Yield is between 1,500 and 2,000 Kg per Hectare.
