Coffee, its origins and stories.
Bean Market’s September subscription featured the El Volador, Loma La Gloria, El Salvador from Padre Coffee.
The Finca Loma La Gloria’s (LLG) story begins in the late nineties when Anny’s dad, a civil engineer, bought a farm and named it after her great-grandfather’s fruit farm. Compared to other Salvadoran coffee growers (who have been in the industry for four generations or more), Anny’s family is ‘new’ to the industry.
Bean Market’s August subscription featured Villa Galicia, Concepcion De Ataco, El Salvador from The Maling Room.
Over 150 years ago, Don Manuel Ariz left Galicia, Spain and arrived in concepcion de Ataco, Ahuachapán – at this time, coffee planting was starting to take hold and Ariz invested in small lots of land nearby, beginning with 13.5 flat-clay-lime soil hectare, which is now today VillaGalicia.
Bean Market’s August subscription featured Santa Isabel, Guatemala from Rumble Coffee Roasters.
Santa Isabel is a family farm that was founded in 1875. It is owned by Luis Valdés (who has been running the farm since 1961), and managed by his son Luis.
Bean Market’s August subscription featured The Queensberry Pour House. QPH’s featured coffee is from producer Erwin Miersich, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, sourced through Silo Coffee.
El Limoncillo is run by producer Erwin Mierisch. The Mierisch family have been farming coffee for over 100 years, and the farm has been passed down from generation to generation. They are focused on producing extremely high quality, shade-grown coffee.
Bean Market’s July subscription featured Omar & The Marvellous Coffee Bird. Coffee Bird’s selected beans are from the Guji Nefas Farm, Sidama, Ethiopia. Co-Owner of Coffee Bird, Andy Gelman visited the farm in 2013 with MTC Coffee Brokers.
The Guji Nefas Farm is a natural processing farm. It is situated 514km away from the Ethiopian capital city Addis Ababa. It has been producing coffee since the 2000 and consists of 200 hectares.
Bean Market’s July subscription featured the Aricha Keble G1, Yirgacheffe from Code Black Coffee Roasters. Code Black’s selected beans are from a mill in the Aricha division of Idido Valley located 8kg northwest of Yirgacheffe town.
The selected beans are from a mill in the Aricha division, Idido Valley located 8km northwest of Yirgacheffe town, Ethiopia. There are two mills in the same region, and the other one is closer to Yirgacheffe town. Code Black chose the Aricha mill because of its unique and intense fruity character.
Bean Market’s July subscription featured Danch Meng, Ninety Plus Coffees from Veneziano Coffee Roasters. The Danch Meng is a levelup crop, a project by the Ninety Plus team.
Danch Meng is part of Levelup, a new project from the creators of Ninety Plus Coffee.
The coffee cherries are small-holder grown with processing overseen by Ninety Plus Coffee. The coffee is hand-picked then naturally dried on raised beds in a covered environment.
The beans’ temperature and moisture levels are constantly monitored throughout the drying process to ensure supreme quality and repeatability.