Sweet, round and jammy, with notes of fig, honey and blackberry.

  • El Paramo, San Ignacio, Cajamarca
  • Peru
  • 1,850 MASL
  • Washed
  • Caturra
  • Fig, Honey, Blackberry

Origin Story

We sourced this coffee through our exporting partner Red Beetle, who we work closely with in Peru and Mexico.

Red Beetle exists to bring coffees with high-potential from under-represented communities to the speciality market, and by doing so delivering higher prices and a more secure income to producers, along with technical assistance to help them improve production.

In Peru, Red Beetle works in partnership with the CASIL cooperative of farmers based out of San Ignacio in Cajamarca. Elton and José from CASIL do most of the groundwork in the region in terms of QC and technical assistance, with Red Beetle providing additional QC and links to market.

Elizabath Rojas’s farm El Páramo is found at 1,850 MASL near the town of El Chaupe in Cajamarca, and bordering the huge Tabacones Namballe natural reserve. The team at Red Beetle have found that the areas surrounding the reserve deliver incredible coffee, and this is certainly the case in this instance.

The coffee is grown with plenty of shade cover, and is harvested by Elizabeth with the help of her parents and brother. After resting in cherry, the coffee undergoes a 40 hour open tank dry fermentation before being pulped, washed, and laid out to dry on raised beds for 15-20 days.

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