Roaster's Choice - Adventurous Coffee - 12 Month Subsription

Colombia Las Brisas

$ 19.00

Size

12 oz

2 lb

5 lb

Qty

We love the balance of approachability and jaw-dropping flavors that great Colombian coffees can exhibit, and Las Brisas has been one of our favorite Colombians for the past several years running.

Las Brisas is grown by growers in ASOQUEBRADON and ASCAFUR associations, based around the town of Rioblanco, Tolima. This area sits near the juncture of Colombia's three mountain ranges, or cordilleras, and the name Las Brisas refers to the strong winds blowing through the region.

We roast quite a bit of coffee grown by small producers, and in most cases, farmers deliver their coffee in-cherry to to a centralized washing station, where it is processed collectively. Las Brisas and our other Colombian coffees are unique in that smallholder farmers mill, wash, and dry their coffee individually, at their farms.

Individual processing can create challenges for consistency and quality, but luckily our export partner Caravela's regional teams of agronomists and cuppers work together with the growers to improve farming and washing practices, to help ensure that the coffee is delicious. All of the farmers who make up Las Brisas are well-practiced in proper fermentation and washing, and dry their coffees on raised and covered beds for slow, even drying and protection from Colombia's rains.

We've come to have pretty high expectations for this coffee, and 2021'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 packs some pear and dried cranberry fruitiness 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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*** for roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

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Congo Mapendo

$ 21.00

Size

12 OZ

2 LB

5 LB

Qty

It’s been too long, but it’s great to have a Congolese coffee back at Huck! Mapendo is our first coffee from Congo in over five years, and its combination of spicy sweetness and dried fruit flavors make it a perfect coffee for warming up in the winter.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is notorious for being one of the world’s most resource-rich, but poverty-stricken and politically-turbulent countries, and Mighty Peace Coffee is a new venture of passionate coffee folks in DRC and the United States who aim to use coffee as a small engine for progress in Congo's coffeelands. Mighty Peace is a woman- and minority-owned social enterprise, and their team in DRC is headed by Linda Mugaruka, an agronomist and Congo’s first Q-Grader dedicated to elevating coffee quality and coffee prices for farmers in Congo.

Mapendo is a female farmer, quality-focused subgroup of the larger Muungano Cooperative, organized in conjunction with Linda and the team at Mighty Peace. Mighty Peace works with the Mapendo group to improve yields, improve quality, and connect the group to roasters who like paying better prices for tasty coffee. It’s a win-win, and we think the coffee is delicious.

QUEEN OF BEANS from Mighty Peace Coffee on Vimeo.

This harvest from Mapendo, combined with some careful roasting by the team at Huck, has some serious cozy-up-by-the-fireplace vibes. It’s bright, like our favorite washed African coffees, but that orange-like acidity is a bit mellower, and the subtle citrus is mellowed out with notes of sweet dried fruit and spicy-sweet molasses. This first year we don’t have a ton of this spicy-sweet goodness, but we’re looking forward to sipping this for a few months over winter.

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*** for roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

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Pictured: Linda Mugaraka with some of the farmers in the Mighty Peace network.

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Ethiopia Mulu Jego Natural

$ 20.00

Size

12 OZ

2 LB

5 LB

Qty

This one’s big, fruit-forward and juicy! Mulu Jego is a new farmer to the Huck lineup, and she produced our second Ethiopian natural of the 2021 harvest. We’re sipping on jammy berries, fruit punch, and brown sugar sweetness, and are stoked for this coffee to stand alongside Aramo washed, our other delicious coffee from the Yirgacheffe Cooperative Union.

As a basic run-down, natural-processed coffees are coffee seeds that are dried inside the cherry, whereas washed coffees have that fruit removed before drying. Naturals can be difficult to do well, but when they’re good, they’re more intensely fruity than their washed counterparts, with berry flavors front and center. And Mulu’s natural is very, very good.

Most of the names of our Ethiopian coffees refer to a cooperative or washing station that collects coffee from hundreds - if not thousands - of producers. Since Ethiopian coffee is usually grown on small family plots, it has rarely made financial sense to export single families' coffee.

Mulu Jego, however, is a single farmer, and she is one of the key producers in the Worka Cooperative. Worka, like Aramo, is one of the 22 cooperatives that make up the larger Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, a longstanding leader in organic farming in the Yirgacheffe region..

Over the last few years, the YCFCU has undertaken the hard work to identify individual farmers whose coffees shine above the YCFCU's already incredibly high standards. These model farmers not only receive better pricing for their lots, but are given the responsibility of acting as mentors for other YCFCU farmers, with the goal of increasing quality and coffee prices for the entire group. Of the thousands of farmers in YCFCU, only a few dozen get singled out for the model farmer program, and we’re always excited to showcase these individual farmers.

We haven’t had the chance to meet Mulu yet (thanks, pandemic), but this year her coffee was far and away our favorite natural from the cooperative union. We’re hoping to visit in early 2022, but until then, we’re perfectly happy to roast up this jammy goodness!

*** for roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

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Roaster's Choice - Adventurous Coffee - 12 Month Subsription

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