{"title":"Guatemala","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGuatemala as a coffee landscape has a certain mystical charm unseen elsewhere in Central America. Guatemala’s coffees bring layers of sweetness, precise acids, subtle aromatics, and, when good and fresh, a brisk herbaceousness that to the experienced portends a slow unfolding of simple sugars over many months in production.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"39084","title":"Guatemala SHB EP - 39084 - SPOT SEAFORTH","description":"\u0026lt;div\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMost look to western \u0026lt;span class=\"gmail-mark6534izknn\"\u0026gt;Guatemala\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; for coffee, but there is something exciting to offer from the heart of the country. Guatemala SHB EP is sourced from several different cooperatives located in different departments of \u0026lt;span class=\"gmail-mark6534izknn\"\u0026gt;Guatemala\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;. Coffee regions have thousands of indigenous communities where coffee has been cultivated for generations on small farms that average 3 acres in size. Producers process their harvest with their own micro-mill, which allows for meticulous care in cherry selection, depulping, fermenting, and drying the coffee.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThey have also organized themselves into cooperatives to overcome the obstacles they face in a rugged and isolated coffee regions of \u0026lt;span class=\"gmail-mark6534izknn\"\u0026gt;Guatemala\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;. The cooperatives provide centralized warehouses to store dried parchment until it is time to move the coffee across the country along rough roads to \u0026lt;span class=\"gmail-mark6534izknn\"\u0026gt;Guatemala\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; City where the coffee is prepared for export. Through cooperatives, the producers have combined their efforts to gain technical assistance for managing their farms with the best organic practices and learned new strategies to protect their farms from the impact of climate change and focus on strategies to improve quality. Using materials, like coffee pulp, to make organic fertilizers has helped reduce the transportation costs associated with purchasing fertilizer from afar, and at the same time, creates an abundant source of fertilizer that ensures better yields and quality.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;\/div\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46215411597500,"sku":"3427097000050690954","price":703.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/guatshbepback-1-scaled_22a2c92b-2d46-4b96-b0db-e6e9a0c6c5ba.jpg?v=1787874595"},{"product_id":"38947","title":"Guatemala Huehuetenango San Mateo SHB EP - 38947 - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Sourcing Details\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;There are plenty of obstacles to cultivating and exporting coffee from the department of Huehuetenango.  The terrain is rugged and the weather is extreme.  But coffee grows well here, and indigenous  families with farms that average just a few acres in size have organized themselves within a cooperative called Cooperativa Integral de Comercialización Nuevo Amanecer CICONA, R.L (CICONA) to overcome the obstacles.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Processing Details\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Each family uses their own micro-mill to process their harvest, which allows for meticulous care in cherry selection, depulping, fermenting, and drying the coffee. CICONA has a centralized warehouse to store dried parchment until it is time to move the coffee across the country along rough roads to Guatemala City where the coffee is prepared for export.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Exporter Details\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Dried parchment is transported to a dry mill in Guatemala City managed by los Volcanes Coffee, which partners with CICONA to ensure quality control and traceability for the cooperatives coffee.  Mild weather in Guatemala City provides ideal conditions for storing parchment in the warehouse until it is time to export.  The mill is equipped with multiple pieces of equipment to sort green coffee typical in most dry mills, such as gravity beds, screens and electronic eyes.  The partnerships between CICONA and Los Volcanes has made this traditional Huehuetenango regional profile shine.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217487089852,"sku":"3427097000050086278","price":712.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-3996e495c7e8a7137e237b6eb9c8c07e15f5ac9f5f917a82e7a9d836143a2469.jpg?v=1789816872"},{"product_id":"37981","title":"GUATEMALA ORGANIC SHB EP - 37981 - Ecotact Bags - SPOT COMIDWEST","description":"Most look to western Guatemala for coffee, but there is something exciting to offer from the heart of the country. Guatemala Organic is sourced from several different organic certified cooperatives located in different departments of Guatemala. Coffee regions have thousands of indigenous communities where coffee has been cultivated for generations on small farms that average 3 acres in size. Producers process their harvest with their own micro-mill, which allows for meticulous care in cherry selection, depulping, fermenting, and drying the coffee.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThey have also organized themselves into cooperatives to overcome the obstacles they face in a rugged and isolated coffee regions of Guatemala. The cooperatives provide centralized warehouses to store dried parchment until it is time to move the coffee across the country along rough roads to Guatemala City where the coffee is prepared for export. Through cooperatives, the producers have combined their efforts to gain technical assistance for managing their farms with the best organic practices and learned new strategies to protect their farms from the impact of climate change and focus on strategies to improve quality. Using materials, like coffee pulp, to make organic fertilizers has helped reduce the transportation costs associated with purchasing fertilizer from afar, and at the same time, creates an abundant source of fertilizer that ensures better yields and quality.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218281582780,"sku":"3427097000045569222","price":801.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/santagregoriaback_7a2de8f3-b734-42e3-a7c3-1f741d07c602.jpg?v=1787870697"},{"product_id":"40074","title":"Guatemala Antigua Hunapu Pajal  - 40074 - 46.0 kg Ecotact Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"Guatemala Antigua Hunapu Pajal is sourced from 50 family-owned farms and Luis Pedro Zelaya Zamora. Luis Pedro has partnered with farmers from Hunapu, the indigenous name for Volcán de Agua (Water Volcano), which is located in Antigua Guatemala. Coffee produced in the Antigua region has a protected designation of origin (PDO) because of Antigua’s renowned coffee reputation. Luis Pedro is a fourth-generation coffee farmer and agronomist who has a proven ability to bring tradition and innovation together. He provides the Hunapu coffee producers with technical assistance such as nutrition, tissue, and pest management at their farms. As a result, producers are able to deliver improved selections of coffee cherries to the Bella Vista wet and dry mill where Luis Pedro’s team meticulously processes fully traceable lots tracked by harvest date, location, variety, and altitude. Coffee is depulped, fermented, washed, and dried on patios and in solar dryers. These solar dryers allow for the coffee to gradually dry in a controlled environment, which improves cup quality. Raised tables provide improved airflow permitting a more uniform drying process and the raised tables also allow better access for hand sorting parchment as it dries.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46219691819196,"sku":"3427097000053065042","price":628.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-1d984335af2ae7406aaa63257f188d3f0248d74cfa41a64f37035efd358f153c.jpg?v=1789798258"},{"product_id":"40075","title":"Guatemala Antigua Duraznito - 40075 - 46.0 kg Ecotact Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"Royal is proud to present a collection of day lots from remote smallholder farmers high on Volcán de Agua, Antigua, for the first time in our long history of working with Luis Pedro Zelaya and the Bella Vista mill. This short series of individual picking days in the Duraznito community showcases the surprising deliciousness possible from a hyper-specific terroir that is normally blended into the coffee of the greater region. It also shows us the value potential created for small farms when regional blends are broken down and examined a little further, even from already exemplary areas like Antigua.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLuis Pedro Zelaya is a fourth-generation producer and miller who for the past 20 years has established one of the best quality reputations in the country. His combination wet and dry mill in Antigua services the coffee produced from his family estates, which are some of the oldest in the country, as well as hundreds of smallholders across the greater Antigua area. As a result of relentless perfectionism from harvest management to dry-milling and customer service, the brands designed and produced by Zelaya’s mill, particularly Bella Carmona and Hunapú, are some of the best-recognized Central American coffees in the specialty world.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Hunapú” is the original K’iché word for Volcán de Agua, one of the Antigua valley’s most prominent (and ominously visible from every street corner in town). Bella Vista’s “Hunapú” coffee is a regional blend of smallholder cherry, named in honor of the many Mayan descendants who now farm coffee on small family plots along its slopes. Coffee is grown and picked by individual smallholders, and processed centrally at Bella Vista. Cherry is picked up on rotation in small amounts from specific sites on schedule, and then fully processed and dried individually as “day lots”—the equivalent to a single day’s picking on a large estate. Final dried day lots are then cupped separately to build larger blends. This is done at cooperatives and labs all over the coffee world, and for smallholder landscapes is simply how export batches need to be built. However, it takes a special quality-minded team, like the folks at Bella Vista, to make the time and space during all this volume to give special attention to the most deserving deliveries.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBella Vista has been receiving smallholder cherry this way for many years. As they got to know the smallholder landscape they realized there was an opportunity to make more separations within the regional blends and create better market opportunities for their contributing farmers. Once they started cupping by sub-region, they quickly tasted the potential in “Duraznito”, one of the highest elevations in Antigua growing primarily bourbon in highly volcanic soils.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis coffee is one of 4 carefully selected day lots from Duraznito farmer community, cupped and separated by the Bella Vista quality team and curated by Royal for the first time. The number in the coffee’s title (17284) is the identification number used by the cuppers at Bella Vista to catalogue day lots from Hunapú farmers as their individual delivery days come through the lab for quality analysis. This specific lot has a molasses-like sweetness, with nectarine, passion fruit, and citrus zest, and a bright, thick body like a just-melted Madagascar chocolate bar. It is an always-welcome reminder that smallholder farms contain some of the best coffees in the world, and that partnerships between large and small actors in the coffee chain can create some serious value if they put their time into it.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46219692179644,"sku":"3427097000053065047","price":628.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/Guatemala-Antigua-Duraznito-Lot-17279back_330b0569-d712-407c-bfb1-c3efad0bb579.jpg?v=1787956792"},{"product_id":"40644","title":"GUATEMALA FT-FLO ORGANIC SMITHSONIAN BIRD FRIENDLY HUEHUETENANGO ASOBAGRI SHB EP - 40644 - Ecotact Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u0026gt;Unless you are going to parachute into Santa Cruz Barillas, you should plan for one of the longest coffee treks of your life. While many are familiar with Huehuetenango and the reputation of the coffee region, few have ventured to this isolated corner of Guatemala. Royal has gone many times over the years and we are proud to have been the first to import Fair Trade certified coffee from Asociación Barillense de Agricultores (ASOBAGRI).\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u0026gt;The spectacularly rugged terrain has served to preserve the indigenous heritage, distinct clothing, and dialects that can vary from one mountain ridge to the next. In this cultural oasis, ASOBAGRI has become an important bridge to the international coffee community. This cooperative is simply one of the most sophisticated and well organized in the world. With more than 1,400 members, spread across 80 communities, who cultivate and harvest their own coffee on small farms with their own micro-mills, ASOBAGRI has the enormous task of providing training and technical support that is appropriately tailored to the needs of the members. Strategies like using coffee pulp to make organic fertilizers reduces the transportation costs associated with purchasing fertilizer from afar, and at the same time, creates an abundant source of organic plant nutrition that ensures better yields and quality. Drying practices are also exquisitely uniform among members who use mobile raised beds that can be stacked and covered at night to protect the coffee and then unstacked and spread out during the day to dry the coffee in the sun. ASOBAGRI also has centralized warehouses to store dried parchment and a cupping lab where producers get immediate feedback.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46221451100348,"sku":"3427097000054449198","price":874.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-0f7242781d5d5b13fd51c021289078f2ca28f0d580c57d9483f8acfd5d476acd.jpg?v=1789788759"},{"product_id":"40504","title":"Guatemala Fraijanes Palo Alto Azul - 40504 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"Guatemala Fraijanes Palo Alto Azul is sourced from Finca Agua Tibia, a farm managed by Industrias Agrícolas Centro Americanas. Finca Agua Tibia is located in the municipality of Fraijanes within the department of Guatemala, Guatemala. Finca Agua Tibia was established more than 150 years ago by Franciscan monks and has been producing coffee since 1940. Coffee processing continues to be steeped in tradition and has not been modernized. Seventy-five percent of Finca Agua Tibia is preserved forest. There is also an ornamental nursery, other crops and an award-winning dairy farm.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46231079256252,"sku":"3427097000054081380","price":729.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/guate-palo-alto-azul-back_b66dc51c-3f4d-4de5-9f96-2bec15624408.jpg?v=1785416480"},{"product_id":"36275","title":"Guatemala Coban Finca Santa Paula SHB EP - 36275 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;The other side of Guatemala\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;When looking for a source of Guatemalan coffee, most go to western Guatemala.  But Alta Verapaz, North of Guatemala City and not far from the border of Honduras, has some epic coffee estates.  Finca Santa Paula, located in the municipality of San Pedro Carch, covers 150 acres with 7 distinct plots cultivated with coffee.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Processing Details\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Harvesting and processing are all done at Finca Santa Paula. Particular attention is placed on picking ripe fruit, which is measured in brix using a refractometer. Cherries are washed and sorted for density and damage before depulping.  Pulped coffee is fermented for up to 36 hours to break down the mucilage and then washed from the coffee seed.  The wet parchment is pre-dried in mechanical dryers and then placed on raised beds in an enclosed greenhouse and slowly dried to 11 percent moisture content.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Environmental and social responsibility\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Water for processing coffee is sourced from rainwater and recirculated for multiple uses throughout the process.  Coffee pulp is transformed into fertilizer for the coffee plants using a worm composting process.  The estate also hosts a primary school with 200 students.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46232145133756,"sku":"3427097000038562070","price":729.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-578a8cf9ac7a3ff01e8703269f8d7ff923e48be52f29c88611a04c9f5ea46abc.jpg?v=1789882217"},{"product_id":"36276","title":"Guatemala Coban Finca Santa Paula SHB EP - 36276 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;The other side of Guatemala\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;When looking for a source of Guatemalan coffee, most go to western Guatemala.\u0026amp;nbsp; But Alta Verapaz, North of Guatemala City and not far from the border of Honduras, has some epic coffee estates.\u0026amp;nbsp; Finca Santa Paula, located in the municipality of San Pedro Carch, covers 150 acres with 7 distinct plots cultivated with coffee.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Processing Details\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Harvesting and processing are all done at Finca Santa Paula. Particular attention is placed on picking ripe fruit, which is measured in brix using a refractometer. 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During the Swiss Water process, the green coffee is hydrated to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. The hydrated green coffee is then introduced to Green Coffee Extract (GCE), a unique solution of concentrated coffee solubles that allows the caffeine to leave the green coffee via osmosis while minimizing the loss of desired flavor compounds. Once the caffeine has been removed the green coffee is re-dried and re-bagged for transport, and the GCE is filtered of its caffeine through proprietary carbon filters and recycled to be used again.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46234883686588,"sku":"3427097000052854804","price":873.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-28ec1a7523eabe350b93be58a20550c9f257beb2c5d82bd38079bfac3cda7d04.jpg?v=1789805548"},{"product_id":"40645","title":"GUATEMALA FT-FLO ORGANIC HUEHUETENANGO ASOBAGRI SHB EP - 40645 - Ecotact Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u0026gt;Unless you are going to parachute into Santa Cruz Barillas, you should plan for one of the longest coffee treks of your life. 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With more than 1,400 members, spread across 80 communities, who cultivate and harvest their own coffee on small farms with their own micro-mills, ASOBAGRI has the enormous task of providing training and technical support that is appropriately tailored to the needs of the members.  Strategies like using coffee pulp to make organic fertilizers reduces the transportation costs associated with purchasing fertilizer from afar, and at the same time, creates an abundant source of organic plant nutrition that ensures better yields and quality.  Drying practices are also exquisitely uniform among members who use mobile raised beds that can be stacked and covered at night to protect the coffee and then unstacked and spread out during the day to dry the coffee in the sun.  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But coffee grows well here, and 634 families with farms that average just a few acres in size work together through a cooperative called \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Guaya\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;’b Asociación Civil (\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;GUAYA\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;’B) to overcome the obstacles. The farms have been certified organic and Smithsonian Bird Friendly by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;GUAYA\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;’B provides members with access to micro-financing to ensure year-round farm maintenance and periodic renovations. \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;GUAYA\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;’B also provides technical assistance, which includes soil analysis and training on organic fertilizer production. During the harvest, \u0026lt;span\u0026gt;GUAYA\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;’B has established a childcare service so parents have a safe place for their children to learn while they pick coffee. Each producer delivers cherry from their individual farms to a centralized wet-mill equipped with environmental controls to return water to the environment free of contamination. At the mill, the cherry is depulped and fermented for 36 to 48 hours, then washed and classified by density in channels of water and dried to 11 percent moisture on patios in the sun. The result is a traceable community lot with a vibrant regional profile ensuring greater producer earnings.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46281512321212,"sku":"3427097000054552018","price":826.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-2de9b4b05e2c563ef75948072dc958aecffefa5cd0298d8e30e9aa3173070a4d.jpg?v=1789809083"},{"product_id":"40565","title":"Guatemala Huehuetenango Finca La Providencia Palhu - 40565 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;span id=\"x_gmail-docs-internal-guid-948accc1-7fff-eb12-847f-587a3f390d08\"\u0026gt;So tried and true, third generation coffee producer and long time Royal supplier Maximiliano Palacios (Max),  uses the name “\u0026lt;span class=\"markf04a4e3eq\"\u0026gt;Palhu\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;” exclusively for lots selected for Royal, combining the family name Palacios and the department of \u0026lt;span class=\"markowespt4ww\"\u0026gt;Huehuetenango\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;.  The heart of \u0026lt;span class=\"markmyjn897ns\"\u0026gt;La\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;span class=\"markusy41lktp\"\u0026gt;Providencia\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;, Max’s 600 acre estate located in the municipality of San Pedro Necta, is a beautifully maintained mill \u0026lt;span class=\"markmyjn897ns\"\u0026gt;la\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;unching from a highpoint on the sloped property where ripe cherries are placed in water and carried through a series of intricate canals designed to take full advantage of gravity.  The panoramic view of the entire farm from this perch easily pulls one's attention from the cherry flowing past to be depulped. After 36 hours fermenting in a \u0026lt;span class=\"markmyjn897ns\"\u0026gt;la\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;rge tile covered tank, the coffee is mechanically washed with a demucilager to reduce water contamination, and then pushed back into a canal where water and gravity join forces again to drag the coffee through long classification channels to separate out less dense beans.  The coffee conveniently falls from the channel onto the patio where the water runs off and the parchment can dry in the sun. Dried parchment is taken to a dry mill in \u0026lt;span class=\"marktqm5w4kw8\"\u0026gt;Guatemala\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; City where Servex, another long time partner prepares the coffee for export.  \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46358582624444,"sku":"3427097000054188203","price":860.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/NICARAGUA-ORGANIC-ALTO-DE-JINOTEGA-SHG-EPback-scaled_4e2b3f8d-f8a5-44cb-a8ac-25ae51091294.jpg?v=1788217413"},{"product_id":"39481","title":"GUATEMALA FT-FLO ORGANIC HUEHUETENANGO ASOBAGRI SHB EP - 39481 - Ecotact Bags - SPOT COSEATAC","description":"\u0026lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u0026gt;Unless you are going to parachute into Santa Cruz Barillas, you should plan for one of the longest coffee treks of your life. While many are familiar with Huehuetenango and the reputation of the coffee region, few have ventured to this isolated corner of Guatemala.  Royal has gone many times over the years and we are proud to have been the first to import Fair Trade certified coffee from Asociación Barillense de Agricultores (ASOBAGRI).  \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u0026gt;The spectacularly rugged terrain has served to preserve the indigenous heritage, distinct clothing, and dialects that can vary from one mountain ridge to the next.  In this cultural oasis, ASOBAGRI has become an important bridge to the international coffee community.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u0026gt; This cooperative is simply one of the most sophisticated and well organized in the world.  With more than 1,400 members, spread across 80 communities, who cultivate and harvest their own coffee on small farms with their own micro-mills, ASOBAGRI has the enormous task of providing training and technical support that is appropriately tailored to the needs of the members.  Strategies like using coffee pulp to make organic fertilizers reduces the transportation costs associated with purchasing fertilizer from afar, and at the same time, creates an abundant source of organic plant nutrition that ensures better yields and quality.  Drying practices are also exquisitely uniform among members who use mobile raised beds that can be stacked and covered at night to protect the coffee and then unstacked and spread out during the day to dry the coffee in the sun.  ASOBAGRI also has centralized warehouses to store dried parchment and a cupping lab where producers get immediate feedback.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46511623602364,"sku":"3427097000051824198","price":814.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/asobagrihb_b5777ef3-c784-4b31-ac93-70c802c602fc.jpg?v=1788210696"},{"product_id":"38180","title":"Guatemala Quiche Finca Los Caballitos SHB EP - 38180 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"Guatemala Quiche Finca Los Caballitos is sourced from Finca Los Caballitos, a 300-acre farm located in the municipality of San Gaspar Chajul within the department of Quiche, Guatemala. This growing region, which includes the towns of Santa Maria Nebaj, San Juan Cotzal, and San Gaspar Chajul, is also called the Ixil Triangle because of the beautiful landscapes and the preservation of the indigenous culture. In 2005, Oscar and Christian Schaps, who are brother, purchased Finca Los Caballitos and started planting 100 acres with bourbon and the rest of the farm with the caturra varietal. Los Caballitos has its own wet mill, which allows for meticulous quality control while processing the harvest. Parchment is transported to Antigua where it is stored and milled for export.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46686375739580,"sku":"3427097000046182346","price":757.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/Guatemala-Quiche-Finca-Los-Caballitosback_c7c85a96-e1c0-41a6-91ff-b5e623363fb0.jpg?v=1787959243"},{"product_id":"39532-1","title":"GUATEMALA ORGANIC JOYABAJ HONEY - 39532-1 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT SEAFORTH","description":"\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Quiché is one of Guatemala’s largest coffee departments, spanning from Chimaltenango’s volcanic range all the way north to the Mexico border. While the northern half of Quiché is dominated by tropical lowlands, the department’s southern regions are mountainous, traversed by the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes and Sierra de Chuacús ranges, which create a variety of high elevation micro-terroirs very well suited to coffee. Quiché is named for the K’iche’ people, one of Guatemala’s largest pre-Columbian indigenous groups. The Quiché department itself is over 65% K’iche’ by population.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;This coffee was grown and harvested by organic certified smallholder farmers from Chuaquenun community near the municipality of Joyabaj  (pronounced ho-yah-bach”) in southern Quiché, and processed centrally at an experimental wet mill set up in the city center. The wet mill was newly constructed this past harvest by a specialty exporter organization, Federación Comercializadora de Café Especial de Guatemala (FECCEG), which represents a number of different smallholder farmer associations across Guatemala. This is the first time that central processing infrastructure has been available to the greater Joyabaj communities, and represents a new investment by FECCEG in the area. \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;FECCEG has worked with smallholder associations in Chimaltenango for years and had come to know growers in nearby southern Quiché over time, including the Joyabaj area specifically. FECCEG always believed in the quality potential around Joyabaj, where the producer culture has long valued full cherry ripeness and careful selection during harvesting. However, over time FECCEG has witnessed Joyabaj smallholders being overlooked and marginalized by regional investment spent elsewhere. This has led to the migration of many out of the region seeking employment in Guatemala’s other departments or the United States and has steadily drained the agricultural areas of experience and labor. As a result, farms in this area, most of which are less than 2 hectares of coffee and subsistence crops, have remained vulnerable to low prices and without incentives or resources for farm reinvestment. \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Once FECCEG identified the opportunity for centralized processing, they sent representatives of their own to collaborate with Joyabaj community leaders and locate the optimal site for the wet mill. This turned out to be in the center of Joyabaj city, where the most resources are available for maintenance, operation, and safety. The mill opened January 2021 and from then through April it processed its first 5,000 quintales of parchment coffee—about 2,400 bags of exportable green coffee.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;To reach the mill, cherry is collected by designated couriers among the community, as not every farm has the means to transport their own pickings. Once received, cherry is separated by density using a siphon machine and then depulped. In the case of the honey process microlots, the still-sticky parchment is taken directly from the depulper to solar dryers with raised beds inside for a carefully controlled drying process of about one week, during which it is turned by hand to ensure even dehydration. Once dried, the finished parchment is transported to FECCEG’s main dry mill in Quetzaltenango, where it is coded and stored for quality assessment.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;The long-term goal of the Joyabaj Wet Mill project includes not only reliable, top-quality coffee for export, but also critical aspects of farm sustainability, such as technical assistance, organic certification, entrepreneurship training for women, and community nurseries to rejuvenate coffee canopies.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46763465507004,"sku":"3427097000054974135","price":903.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-867c4701d03c1c7894fc9e8cbd6b75e7bde1b9433854d71f342586a827906b29.jpg?v=1789912925"},{"product_id":"39531-2","title":"ROYAL GEM GUATEMALA ORGANIC JOYABAJ NATURAL - 39531-2 - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Quiché is one of Guatemala’s largest coffee departments, spanning from Chimaltenango’s volcanic range all the way north to the Mexico border. 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The wet mill was newly constructed this past harvest by a specialty exporter organization, Federación Comercializadora de Café Especial de Guatemala (FECCEG), which represents a number of different smallholder farmer associations across Guatemala. This is the first time that central processing infrastructure has been available to the greater Joyabaj communities, and represents a new investment by FECCEG in the area. \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;FECCEG has worked with smallholder associations in Chimaltenango for years and had come to know growers in nearby southern Quiché over time, including the Joyabaj area specifically. FECCEG always believed in the quality potential around Joyabaj, where the producer culture has long valued full cherry ripeness and careful selection during harvesting. However, over time FECCEG has witnessed Joyabaj smallholders being overlooked and marginalized by regional investment spent elsewhere. This has led to the migration of many out of the region seeking employment in Guatemala’s other departments or the United States and has steadily drained the agricultural areas of experience and labor. As a result, farms in this area, most of which are less than 2 hectares of coffee and subsistence crops, have remained vulnerable to low prices and without incentives or resources for farm reinvestment. \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Once FECCEG identified the opportunity for centralized processing, they sent representatives of their own to collaborate with Joyabaj community leaders and locate the optimal site for the wet mill. This turned out to be in the center of Joyabaj city, where the most resources are available for maintenance, operation, and safety. 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Once dried, the finished cherry is transported to FECCEG’s main dry mill in Quetzaltenango, where it is coded and stored for quality assessment.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;The long-term goal of the Joyabaj Wet Mill project includes not only reliable, top-quality coffee for export, but also critical aspects of farm sustainability, such as technical assistance, organic certification, entrepreneurship training for women, and community nurseries to rejuvenate coffee canopies.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46840957501628,"sku":"3427097000055120031","price":381.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-c1fced6840bf543c737bda3c34eece0207bfe275d3ae0f0b9959de0368d4c1ce.jpg?v=1789953041"},{"product_id":"39532-3","title":"ROYAL GEM GUATEMALA ORGANIC JOYABAJ HONEY - 39532-3 - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Quiché is one of Guatemala’s largest coffee departments, spanning from Chimaltenango’s volcanic range all the way north to the Mexico border. 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However, over time FECCEG has witnessed Joyabaj smallholders being overlooked and marginalized by regional investment spent elsewhere. This has led to the migration of many out of the region seeking employment in Guatemala’s other departments or the United States and has steadily drained the agricultural areas of experience and labor. As a result, farms in this area, most of which are less than 2 hectares of coffee and subsistence crops, have remained vulnerable to low prices and without incentives or resources for farm reinvestment. \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Once FECCEG identified the opportunity for centralized processing, they sent representatives of their own to collaborate with Joyabaj community leaders and locate the optimal site for the wet mill. This turned out to be in the center of Joyabaj city, where the most resources are available for maintenance, operation, and safety. The mill opened January 2021 and from then through April it processed its first 5,000 quintales of parchment coffee—about 2,400 bags of exportable green coffee.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;To reach the mill, cherry is collected by designated couriers among the community, as not every farm has the means to transport their own pickings. Once received, cherry is separated by density using a siphon machine and then depulped. In the case of the honey process microlots, the still-sticky parchment is taken directly from the depulper to solar dryers with raised beds inside for a carefully controlled drying process of about one week, during which it is turned by hand to ensure even dehydration. 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The heart of \u0026lt;span class=\"markmyjn897ns\"\u0026gt;La\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;span class=\"markusy41lktp\"\u0026gt;Providencia\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;, Max’s 600 acre estate located in the municipality of San Pedro Necta, is a beautifully maintained mill \u0026lt;span class=\"markmyjn897ns\"\u0026gt;la\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;unching from a highpoint on the sloped property where ripe cherries are placed in water and carried through a series of intricate canals designed to take full advantage of gravity.  The panoramic view of the entire farm from this perch easily pulls one's attention from the cherry flowing past to be depulped. After 36 hours fermenting in a \u0026lt;span class=\"markmyjn897ns\"\u0026gt;la\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;rge tile covered tank, the coffee is mechanically washed with a demucilager to reduce water contamination, and then pushed back into a canal where water and gravity join forces again to drag the coffee through long classification channels to separate out less dense beans.  The coffee conveniently falls from the channel onto the patio where the water runs off and the parchment can dry in the sun. Dried parchment is taken to a dry mill in \u0026lt;span class=\"marktqm5w4kw8\"\u0026gt;Guatemala\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt; City where Servex, another long time partner prepares the coffee for export.  \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851441000636,"sku":"3427097000055179087","price":858.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/NICARAGUA-ORGANIC-ALTO-DE-JINOTEGA-SHG-EPback-scaled_e52ea4f6-745f-4cf5-b2cb-a9c02c1638b5.jpg?v=1786376925"},{"product_id":"41028","title":"Guatemala San Juan Sacatepéquez Finca Concepcion Pixcaya SHB EP - 41028 - GrainPro Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Regional Details\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;The location where coffee is cultivated is often a defining characteristic.  This is certainly true for coffee grown in the region that surrounds Antigua, Guatemala. But contrary to what might be summed up with a location, there are many nuances to this lot from Finca Concepcion Pixcaya in the Antigua region of San Juan Sacatepéquez.  Farm management at this 250-acre estate is a prime example of the complexity that complements terroir.  For example, less than half of the estate is cultivated with coffee while the remainder is a natural reserve teeming with biodiversity.  And where coffee is cultivated, shade trees cover at least 50 percent of the area, which is an essential tool for growing delicate heirloom varieties and protecting the ecology of the estate.  Diversity also includes macadamia and avocado cultivation, and a pine and cypress forest.  In 2003 Concepción Pixcayá was nominated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for their efforts in reforestation.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Processing Details\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;During the post-harvest stage, a great deal of care is dedicated to understanding optimum ripeness before picking.  The wet-mill equipment has been updated to ensure efficient processing that is ecologically responsible.  For this particular lot, the cherries are floated to remove less dense and damaged coffee before depulping.  After depulling the mucilage is removed with a demucilager, which significantly reduces wastewater.  The washed coffee is then soaked in fresh clean water for 24 hours.  Next the coffee is gently dried on patios for a period of 2 weeks to 11 percent moisture.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;Exporting Details\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;p dir=\"ltr\"\u0026gt;To prepare the coffee for export, Finca Concepcion Pixcaya works with an export company called Servex, which has a longtime and trusted relationship with Royal.  At the dry-mill, dried parchment is dehulled and sorted with equipment typical in most dry mills, such as gravity beds, screens and an electronic color sorter.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851441066172,"sku":"3427097000055179094","price":855.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/guatsanjuansacatefincaconceppixcayagpBACK_d3fae218-8055-4cb3-a67e-0a4bc5cfc389.jpg?v=1786135294"},{"product_id":"40569","title":"Guatemala Antigua Los Volcanes SHB EP - 40569 - Ecotact Bags - SPOT RCWHSE","description":"The city of Antigua is in many ways a modern coffee Eden. It’s iconic, laid back, gorgeously ornate, and for a city of its size it is absolutely teeming with historic coffee infrastructure. Coffee from most of the Sacatepéquez department is known simply as “Antigua”, and their sugar profiles range from butterscotch to marzipan sweetness, and acids from lemonade-like piquancy to dessert wine or tangy dried fruit.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGuatemala’s best centralized wet mills and best boutique exporters are based in Antigua. There are thousands of farms in the area, from the city’s legacy estates to patchwork smallholder communities climbing most of the way up Volcán de Agua, one of three looming stratovolcanoes that seem to be visible from every street corner in town and play a large part in Antigua’s famous soil composition. Such a variety of producers begets coffees with endless combinations of microclimates, elevations and varieties. There is a lot to work with here, and a lot of talent.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Los Volcanes SHB EP” is a blend of cherry from throughout the Antigua valley processed centrally at an historic wet mill in the Antigua valley owned by CAMEC, one of Royal’s oldest exporter partners, from whom we have been buying coffee since the early 1980s. For the past few years the management of CAMEC’s wet mill has been overseen by Los Volcanes Coffee, a tight-knit processing and exporting team who expertise in agronomy and processing is interwoven throughout Guatemala, thanks to their many years of experience as cuppers, roasters, exporters, relationship managers, and educators. Indeed, the name “Los Volcanes” appears on a wide variety of coffees Royal imports each year. The founding team at Los Volcanes is known for breaking down a single farm’s harvest into hundreds of data points (compost formulas, genetics, shade variance, picking rates, fermentation times and temperatures, drying styles, and on and on) and re-building custom-tailored harvesting systems for farm managers based on their experience and cupping acumen. Naturally, over time, Los Volcanes began to co-manage farms with their supplier partners. Finally, a few years ago they were granted operation of a CAMEC’s wet mill, complete with adjacent coffee farm, and moved their headquarters there from Guatemala City. They now centrally process cherry from dozens of select farms and smallholder communities, bringing their fermentation precision to an unprecedented scale, and building incredibly delicious, affordable macro lots that present refined terroirs and consistent preparation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nCherry is delivered daily from across the Antigua valley. Upon delivery it is inspected for uniformity, depulped, and fermented for up to 72 hours in a covered, temperature-controlled warehouse of ceramic tanks. Los Volcanes employs dedicated processing managers to specifically oversee the bulk fermentations. These local experts are calibrated by a combination of parchment density, temperature and smell to manage precise degrees of development and maintain consistency across batches of various volumes, temperatures, and humidity levels. After fermentation is complete, parchment is passed through a pressurized water siphon for cleaning and density grading, and then dried on the site’s large patio or in mechanical dryers. All centrally processed lots are sampled and cupped extensively by the Los Volcanes quality team so they can be profiled by sensory attributes and combined to present very precise final profiles.","brand":"Royal Coffee Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46892088459452,"sku":"3427097000054188258","price":808.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0720\/7672\/2364\/files\/rcf-coffee-info-31100753d55e18e37664df6bbdfe16aa1a6f289d4e6a0556d6226cc5e06dc4cb.jpg?v=1789810952"},{"product_id":"41152","title":"GUATEMALA FT-FLO ORGANIC SMITHSONIAN BIRD FRIEND EL GUAYA'B SHB EP 85+ - 41152 - Ecotact Bags - SPOT COMIDWEST","description":"There are plenty of obstacles to cultivating and exporting coffee from the department of Huehuetenango. The terrain is rugged, and the weather is extreme. 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Luis Pedro and his team at the Bella Vista wet mill not only personally manage each of these farms; they also work like perfectionists at the cupping table to maintain the quality of the blend, shipping what they believe is a true representation of the Antigua valley’s volcanic and bourbon-based terroir. We buy a variety of Bella Carmona coffees each year and they routinely astound us with how early they arrive and how crisp and sweet they taste.  \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Welcome to Antigua\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;The city of Antigua is in many ways a modern coffee Eden. It’s iconic, laid back, gorgeously ornate, and for a city of its size it is absolutely teeming with historic coffee infrastructure. 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Luis Pedro and his team at the Bella Vista wet mill not only personally manage each of these farms; they also work like perfectionists at the cupping table to maintain the quality of the blend, shipping what they believe is a true representation of the Antigua valley’s volcanic and bourbon-based terroir. We buy a variety of Bella Carmona coffees each year and they routinely astound us with how early they arrive and how crisp and sweet they taste.  \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Welcome to Antigua\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;The city of Antigua is in many ways a modern coffee Eden. It’s iconic, laid back, gorgeously ornate, and for a city of its size it is absolutely teeming with historic coffee infrastructure. 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Bella Vista also processes coffee from hundreds of smallholders across the greater Antigua area, most notably along the slopes of Volcán de Agua, whose blend is sold as “Hunapú”, after the local indigenous title of the volcano. As a result of relentless perfectionism from harvest management to dry-milling and customer service, the brands designed and produced by LPZ and his quality team, particularly Bella Carmona and Hunapú, are some of the best-recognized Central American coffees in the specialty world.\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Processing Detail \u0026amp; Quality Control\u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;span\u0026gt; \u0026lt;\/span\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u0026lt;span\u0026gt;Cherry is delivered daily at Bella Vista from all over the valley. 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