Papua New Guinea Okapa

Origin

• 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  50
• Bright
  40

Producer: Various SmallholdersSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. Origin: Daulo, Goroka and Ungai Bena Districts Varietal: TypicaTypicaThe oldest cultivated arabica lineage, ancestor of most Latin American coffee. Low yield, clean and sweet cup; the baseline other varieties are measured against. Altitude: 1200-1500 metres above sea level Process: WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. Flavours: JuicyAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it. Berries, Elderflower, Vanilla, Rose About This Coffee This lot is sourced from 1,500 smallholder farmers partnered with the Outspan 4 Mile wetmill in Goroka. These farmers cultivate the typica and mundo novo varieties at altitudes up to 1,500masl. The mill buys ripe cherries and processes them centrally to ensure complete control of cherry selection and processing. The coffee is harvested by selecting only the cherries that have reached perfect ripeness. The beans are then depulped manually using a pulping machine. Afterward, they are placed in a container with water for an initial separation, removing any beans that float. The coffee is transferred to an open tank to ferment for about 12 hours. It is then washed two or three times until all the mucilage is removed. Finally, the beans are dried on patios for around seven days before completing in mechanical dryers. The Region Eastern Highlands Province is the largest coffee-producing province in Papua New Guinea, with an average altitude of between 1,100 and 2,000 meters above sea level. Farmers grow coffee using traditional methods, mostly without the use of chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides. They are smallholder farmers with an average land area of 0.5 hectares. Growing Coffee in Papua New Guinea Although PNG has often produced more than 1 million bags of coffee annually, the average has dropped below 1 million over the last 10 years. The vast majority of coffee in PNG (95%) is grown in the highland regions near the center of the country. These coffee exhibit the heavy bodyBodyThe weight and texture of coffee in the mouth, from tea-like and delicate to syrupy and heavy. Driven by process, roast, variety, and brew method. characteristic of this part of the world along with the savory sweet flavors. Coffee from PNG is graded using a unique matrix that reflects not only screen size but bean shape, defect count, and color in addition to aroma and cup quality with A/X, being the highest q