Peru Mavila Peralta
$ 19.00
Peru is one of the most exciting coffee producing countries in the world right now, with both loads of quality and tons of untapped potential. With the world’s second highest mountain range running North-South through the country, Peru has the altitude to continue producing great coffee in the face of global warming, the country has largely embraced organic farming practices, and as the coffee industry works to single out small farmers from the country’s tradition for large, regional lots, we’re tasting some true gems.
Each year, Huckleberry purchases a relatively large (for us, at least) amount of coffee from smallholder farmers in the village (or aldea) of Laurel, in San Ignacio’s La Coipa district. Aldea Laurel is a great coffee in its own right, and forms the backbone of Blue Orchid and Sound and Vision, but we also have the chance to taste coffee from some of the group’s best individual farmers.
This year, Mavila Peralta Pérez produced our favorite coffee amongst the group, with approachable sweetness and subtle, fruity complexity. We’re tasting cocoa, caramel, yellow apple, and dried berry in our mugs. And while we roast this for filter brewing, it’ll make a sweet and bright, but not too bright, single origin espresso.
We’re excited to work towards to the future with Ismael, the other farmers in Laurel, and Origin Coffee Lab, an exporter dedicated to transparency, farmer assistance, fair pricing, and full traceability. While great farm location, varieties, and farm practices are undeniably a huge factor, there’s always some level of chance when it comes to microlot-quality coffee. So it’s important to us to not just cherry-pick from the top, but also support growers at a level that’s a bit more attainable without the fortune of good luck. This is our ideal purchase model, and close to what we strive for in other origins like Guatemala: commit to buying coffee from a group of farmers at a level they can consistently attain, and also showcase the best of the best.
If you’re looking for some great coffee from Peru, you can find it as part of Blue Orchid and Sound and Vision. Mavila Peralta produced this cream that rises to the top though, and we’re excited to roast it on its own.
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Colombia El Desarollo
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El Desarollo is back - one of our favorite coffees for the last 5 years. While we called this coffee Matambo for a few years, it's always come from the El Desarollo Growers Association, and this group of farmers has produced a coffee that's deeply sweet and subtly complex, year-after-year!
The best Colombias - and particularly the best Huilas - pull off a balance between approachability and exciting flavors that few other origins can match. This latest crop is a perfect example of that balance, popping with red berry and plum fruitiness, but rounding out the pop with dark honey and buttery pie crust sweetness.
We had the pleasure of visiting Asociación de Cafeteros el Desarollow in August of 2017 with Caravela, one of our favorite sourcing partners in Latin America. Read more about that visit here to see why we're stoked for yet another great year with the El Desarollo Growers Association and the long game with these growers and Caravela in Colombia.
We think El Desarollo has something for everyone. Plenty of traditional coffee flavors and sweetness for those who prefer a more approachable or milk-friendly mug, but also packing juicy, fruity flavors and high-end brightness to please folks who prefer more adventurous coffees. Year 5 of this gem from Gigante, and we’re looking forward to brewing it for the next few months!
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East Timor Letefoho
$ 18.00
This is Huck's third year roasting coffee from farmers in East Timor's Letefoho district, and this year’s crop delivers big sweetness and approachable flavors.
Coffees from the Pacific islands can be big, bold, and in better cases, a good kind of earthy. But the wet hulled process that’s common in the region - in which the coffee’s protective parchment layer is removed before drying - lends itself to premature fade and vegetal, funky flavors. So, we specifically seek out washed coffees from the islands, dried in their parchment to preserve the goodness and keep out the funk. The tiny country of East Timor has been on the comeup the past few years, in large part by focusing on fully washed coffees.
Cafe Brisa Serena is a social enterprise that works with farmers in East Timor's Letefoho district to improve growing and processing practices, obtain organic certification, and access the specialty market. This particular coffee comes from organic-certified family farms in the tiny village of Lacau, and is all washed on-farm, rather than at a centralized mill.
If you like your coffees big and approachable, this is the ticket. It’s not a dark roast, but we do develop this coffee just a touch further than most of our single origins to accentuate its body and chocolate flavors. Beyond the big body and chocolate, raisin, walnut and pastry sweetness round out the cup. Letefoho is nuanced, but at the same time traditional, approachable, and pleasing with (cow or alternate) milk or on its own.
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Ecuador Bosque de Marfil
$ 20.00
Bosque de Marfil is back for its third year in the Huck lineup, and we’re excited to brew this one up over the next few months. Black cherry, nougat, macadamia nut and fudge flavors dominate a complex, but sweet and comforting cup.
Bosque de Marfil is the name of a forest in the center of Ecuador’s southernmost Loja province, and the 44 farmers who produce this coffee call this forest home. Sitting high in the Limo mountain range, the bosque provides great shade for coffee production, and abundant natural resources that help these farmers earn secondary income in the months between one coffee harvest and the next.
As is the case with many of our Latin American coffees, we’re excited to source Bosque de Marfil through Caravela Coffee. Caravela helps ensure us dependably great coffees, and provides farmers with access to on-farm assistance plus fair, transparent pricing structures. It’s a win-win, and it makes them one of our favorite partners in Latin America.
As far as the cup goes, it’s a sweet, delicious ride. Cherry cola sweetness, chocolate-molasses sweet-spice, creamy nut notes, and a touch of green apple brightness, with a syrupy body. It’ll hold up to milk just great, and we’ll be brewing it plenty as a single origin espresso, but we’re also more than glad to drink this black - it’s a lively and juicy everyday drinker.
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Ethiopia Worka Chelbesa
$ 20.00
Huck’s first washed Ethiopian coffee of the 2020/21 harvest is clean, bright, and refreshing for the summer heat. This is our third year roasting coffee from the village of Worka Chelbesa (and the washing station of the same name), and this year's washed coffee pops. We’re tasting pink lemonade, hibiscus, and melon candy in a bright, delicate, and complex cup.
We’ve been pretty impressed with SNAP Specialty Coffees over the last few years. They’ve exported and dry milled some of our favorite coffees from the Guji Zone, but also own a few washing stations throughout Ethiopia. Worka Chelbesa is one of those stations, and we've quickly learned to look forward to this coffee year-after-year.
One of the things we love about the entire SNAP network is that they specialize in traceable, smaller lots - breaking the harvest into shorter periods and keeping each period separate. This helps ensure that what we taste when we first approve the coffees truly represents what we’ll roast for you, and that each bag will be consistent with the last. Also, the crew at SNAP is legitimately interested in how their coffees perform here in the US - quick to answer any questions we have, and quick to ask how the coffees are tasting. Boring details, maybe, but as we get a bit more involved in our sourcing and digging into where our coffees come from, these are the things we’re looking for to get y’all that tasty coffee.
In this case, the village (kebele) of Worka Chelbesa is one of the highest towns in the woreda (more or less county) of Gedeb, in the larger Yirgacheffe zone. 680 farmers deliver coffee cherry to the Worka Chelbesa washing station, where the coffee is washed, dried, and sorted to the most exacting detail. We'll roast a natural from the same station soon, too, so you can try two coffees from the same place side-by-side, but first up, washed Worka Chelbesa slaps. Heady florals, bright citrus, clean and sweet fruit candy that'll make your taste buds water - especially as a filter brew or hot-over-ice iced coffee.
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*washing station photos courtesy Abenezer Asfaw of SNAP.
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