Guatemala La Cooperativa Samac

Origin

• 🇬🇹 Guatemala

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
  30
• Comforting
  20

Tasting NotesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee.: Toffee, Spice & White Grapes Nestled away north of Cobán, Alta Verapaz, you’ll find a beautiful community of 178 families that have come together to form a cooperative with coffee and forest conservation at their core. La Cooperativa Samac were granted these lands in 1971 and they began the process of restoring the land back to its original beauty. Now that the cooperative has over 50 years behind their belt, it’s been amazing to see the growth they’ve achieved. Since then, they’ve built an entire wet millWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee. to process their cherries into parchment, they’ve designed and built solar dryers to reduce their need for firewood to dry coffee while being quality-conscious, and lastly, they’ve recently just re-forested over 850 hectares of land in 2020 just to name a few. Their conservation efforts were one of the reasons we were excited to bring this coffee to our line up.