Peru, Hilber Arevalo | Geisha

Origin

• 🇵🇪 Peru

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
  65
• Experimental
  50
• Floral
  50
• Clean
  25

Meet Hilber, a third-generation coffee grower carrying on HIS family business. With over 15 years of experience, he approaches coffee with a strong sense of responsibility— not just to quality, but to the land and traditions that support it . This focus on continuity and care reflects our own ethos, making this lot a meaningful first purchase for us. Cherries are handpicked at peak ripeness, carefully sorted, and gently pulped using well-calibrated equipment to maintain consistency and bean integrity from the outset. This Ethiopian heirloomHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. varietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process., grown in Peru, offers clear notes of lavender, passionfruit and peach, with a bright, lemonade-like acidityAcidityThe 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.. After 20 hours of anaerobic fermentationAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. and washing, the coffee is dried in a parabolic solar dryer, where it’s regularly turned for even drying and protected from the elements. The result is a clean, balanced cup that reflects the care taken at every stage.