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Guatemala Huehuetenango Río Azul SHB EP

Guatemala Huehuetenango Río Azul SHB EP

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We are excited to release this wonderful and complex coffee featuring all of the best from Guatemala in one cup: flavor notes of sweet caramel, apricot, and baking spice in the finish. Mike's initial Cupping Notes: Our new Guatemala is the result of my first trip to origin post Covid restrictions. I met and cupped with Christian, one of the main producers and millers in Guatemala. We cupped many, many coffees and had two favorites. We experimented and created a wonderful blend highlighting the body and notes of honey, fig, and caramel from Chimaltenango with the floral orange citrus and cherry fruit notes from Rio Azul in Huehuetenango. With Guatemala Huehuetenango Rio Azul SHB EP’s focus on high altitude and clean processing, this SHB EP regional blend has all of the attributes we love about a coffee from Huehuetenango—vivid acidity and prominent fruit and floral notes. About SHB: Strictly Hard Bean (SHB) specifies that altitude at which coffee is grown. A coffee must be grown at at least 1,200 masl to be considered SHB. Higher altitude and lower temperatures mean that the coffee cherry matures more slowly, creating a denser bean. EP stands for European Preparation. EP beans are Screen 15+ with a low defect tolerance.

Characteristics

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Roast

Medium

Acidity

Vivid

Notes

Apricot, Baking Spice, Caramel

Farm

Smallholder Farm Co Op

Farmer

Smallholder Farmers Co Op

Elevation

1900 - 2000 Masl

Varietal

Bourbon, Caturra, Catuai

Process

Washed

Location

Huehuetenango, Guatemala

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Klatch Coffee

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Established:

1993

Owners:

Heather Perry

Awards:
  • Good Food Awards Winner - 2012, 2016, 2017 & 2020
  • Small Franchise/Chain Champion - 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Top 10 Coffee of the Year - Coffee Review-  2018
  • Golden Bean - 2023 - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 4 Bronze
  • Micro Roaster of the Year - Roast Magazine - 2009
  • World's Best Espresso, World Barista Championships -2007
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Klatch Coffee is a woman-owned, family-operated coffee company based in Southern California and distributed worldwide. We source, roast, and brew our own coffee, and apply our scientific method to accomplish a taste best described with expletives and exclamations. Some say it’s obsessive, we say it’s fun. Our methodical approach is a mix of coffee artistry and mad science — obsessively meticulous and thoroughly documented over many tastings to get it just right. We call it our “peak of flavor method,” and it’s earned us a spot on the world coffee stage for three decades and counting. Here at Klatch, we spend a lot of energy searching for and studying about the best coffee we can offer. We value people and planet before profit, and at Klatch Coffee, the conversation around coffee never stops. Our Klatch Direct Trade Coffee journey begins with a partnership with like-minded producers - those who share our same commitment to ethics, excellence, environmental stewardship, quality, and community. We follow a Direct Trade Coffee model that is designed to meet the needs of the families in today’s market, and buy straight from the growers, cutting out the traditional middleman. In doing so, we're able to pay well above Fair-Trade minimums - by at least 25% - and often pay double or triple those prices based on the cup quality. Our buying model is designed to push the envelope of quality coffee by encouraging viable, meaningful careers in specialty coffee agriculture. We only buy Cup of Excellence quality coffee and above, often 90 points or more, and we believe that a farmer that grows such award-winning coffee should be given their due. Through our Klatch Direct Trade model, we have not only simplified the supply chain, but we've also improved the quality and sustainability for farmers and have built long-term relationships with producers in various countries.