Colombia Las Brisas
$ 19.00
We love the balance of approachability and jaw-dropping flavors that great Colombian coffees can exhibit, and Las Brisas has been one of our favorites for the past few years running.
2020 marks Huck's sixth harvest roasting Las Brisas, and each winter we can look forward to a great combination of zippy brightness and deep, balanced sweetness. It's been a few years since we've had the chance to visit the farmers behind this coffee, and to be honest, who knows when travel will be a possibility again, but in the meantime, we're excited for another delicious crop from the town of Rioblanco and the ASOQUEBRADON and ASCAFUR associations.
We've come to have pretty high expectations for this coffee, and 2020's crop delivers in spades. Las Brisas packs plenty of approachable caramel sweetness if you want to put a bit of cream in your cup, but also pops with green grape and candied citrus flavors for those of us who seek out a brighter, more exotic cup. Truly a crowd-pleaser!
And, if you're looking for something extra-special, keep your eyes peeled for our upcoming Gesha release from Israel Hernandez, one of the farmers behind Las Brisas.
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Ethiopia Mustefa Natural
$ 21.00
We're closing out 2020 and kicking off 2021 with our first two single origins from Western Ethiopia. While we've traditionally found most of our Ethiopian coffees from Guji and Yirgacheffe, the coffees we've tasted from the west have been increasingly hard to ignore, and Mustefa Natural joins Nano Challa as the fruitier of our first two single origins from Jimma!
Mustefa Abalulessa might have one of the most unique coffee origin stories in Ethiopia, with farm roots in revolution. Abalulessa, Mustefa's father, spent the 1970s as a guerilla leader, fighting against the Derg, Ethiopia's brutal dictatorship at the time, and hid out in the mountains and forests around Jimma. When the Derg finally fell, the family was granted some of the forest Abalulessa called home, as a form of reparations and reconciliation.
Mustefa first made a name for himself as a seed producer, selecting and preparing new seed stock for farmers in the area. He only recently began processing his own coffee for sale, but the meticulous detail required for seed preparation has clearly paid off in the coffee we get to roast.
Mustefa Natural is big-bodied, fruit-forward, and subtly boozy, with notes of blackberry, raspberry, orange liqueur, and brown sugar.
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Ethiopia Nano Challa
$ 20.00
We're heading west for our third and final washed Ethiopia of the 2020 harvest. While most of our Ethiopian coffees come from Yirgacheffe and Guji in the southern part of the country, coffees from Nano Challa - alongside its sister cooperatives in the Kata Muduga Cooperative Union, Yukro, Biftu Gudina, and Duromina - have become some of the most sought-after coffees in Ethiopia over the past few years.
Our friends at Osito Coffee Importers - who we also work with for coffees from Burundi and Mexico - sent us a set of samples from Kata Muduga earlier this year, and this particular lot from Nano Challa was lights out. Alongside Mustefa Natural, this was one of two great reasons to branch westward in our Ethiopian offerings this year.
The Kata Muduga is one of the newest cooperative unions (a cooperative of cooperatives) in Ethiopia, born out of a joint development project from USAID and Technoserve in the early 2000s. With coffee fairly well-developed (or at least well-known) in Southern Ethiopia. USAID and Technoserve built several washing stations in Western Ethiopia, with the hopes of building up the coffee industry in different parts of the country.
Cooperatives, including Nano Challa, Yukro, and Duromina, among others, formed around these washing stations, and quickly began producing coffees that rivaled the best from Yirgacheffe. While these co-ops started as part of the Oromia Union, a few years ago a handful of them branched out to form Kata Muduga. We've featured lots from Yukro in Phantom Limb the past few years, but this our first time offering one of the Kata Muduga coffees on its own.
This lot from Nano Challa pops. We're tasting juicy clementine and bright red berries, balanced with delicate florals and sweet honey. A great endcap to our 2020 washed Ethiopias, and a great reason to roast up some delicious coffee from Jimma.
Guatemala Atitlán el Grano
$ 19.00
Guatemala is always on our minds here at Huckleberry, and even though the coffees from the AProCafé El Grano Growers Association might only be on our menu for a few months each year, these coffees represent year-round work and commitment from both Huck and the growers. After months of work and a bit of waiting, we’re always stoked to drop Atitlán el Grano back into the lineup.
This year, before coronavirus turned our world upside-down, we traveled to Guatemala with a crew of Huckleberry baristas for the first time ever. Keep your eyes peeled for some fresh video content! As always, it's a pleasure to spend time with the team at AProCafé, and sharing that experience with our own team made it even more special. Every time we visit we're blown away by AProCafé's hard work, dedication to organic farming and preserving the environment, and the farmers' eagerness to both welcome us and work towards improving their coffee.
We've been roasting coffee from AProCafé el Grano since 2015, and have been working hands-on with these growers since day one. Several years ago we worked with the group to develop their first single farmer microlot program, and each year, have used a portion of proceeds from our holiday Sister Winter blend to help the group with a variety of projects. AProCafé has used Sister Winter funds to purchase and apply organic-approved leaf rust prevention treatments, to build raised drying beds to improve coffee processing, and this year we purchased Brix meters for the group, to help picking coffee cherries at their optimal ripeness.
While we’ll have special single farm microlots from a few farmers in the group, the main lots from AProCafé are equally special. We're tasting red apple, hazelnut (we would've put Nutella on the bags if we legally could), plum, and caramel in this year's crop - Atitlán el Grano is back for year six, and as always, is dependably sweet and delicious!
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Guatemala Doña Lucinda
$ 21.00
It's been a few years, but it's wonderful to welcome Doña Lucinda back into the Huckleberry lineup.
Back in 2015, Lucinda Puac Perez was the first farmer Huck featured in our AproCafe microlot program. Her coffee has been solid in years since, but hasn't quite made it into the top 3 lots we highlight on their own. This year though, Lucinda's coffee was our favorite among the full group - it's deeply sweet, lush, and fruity, and we're stoked to have her back in full force.
The Huck crew visited AProCafé in early January 2020, just before the mid-point of the Guatemalan harvest, and just before coronavirus put travel on indefinite hold. When we visited Lucinda, we noticed a few things that seemed to have slipped a bit - slightly uneven ripeness in the harvested coffee, and some coffee staying in cherry a bit too long before depulping and washing. While we tend to visit either before or just after harvest, coming in the middle gave us an opportunity to see and talk about things that might be improved, at a time when farmers could actually make changes.
Lucinda's coffee from the second half of harvest is our top-scoring AProCafé coffee of this year. We're tasting pie crust, mixed berries, and stone fruit in our mugs, and while it's been lovely to use her coffee as part of our main Atitlán el Grano lot the past few years, we couldn't be happier to have Lucinda back on her own.
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Pictured: Lucinda Puac Pérez and her husband, Bacilio Alescio.
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