Origin: Chanjón, Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Producer: Josefa Jerónimo

Process: Washed

Varieties: Bourbon, Villa Sarchi, & Caturra

Altitude: 1650masl

Importer: Shared Source

Roast: Medium-light

Notes: Plum, Golden Raisin, Butter Tart, Milk Chocolate

Transparency: 

• We paid Shared Source 6.31 USD per pound of exportable green coffee + shipping & storage fees
• We're waiting on an update from Shared Source for exact Farmgate / FOB prices. Shared Source always pays top dollar in local currency, as well as pays for milling and transport to the mill.

Back again on the menu for the THIRD year in the row. Consistently this is one of our favourite coffees we get to release every year. It's always exactly what we want out of a coffee from Guatemala, sweet, buttery, rich and chocolatey! This particular harvest is extra sweet, singing with a plummy sweet acidity.

Josefa Jerónimo

Josefa lives and grows in Chanjón, one of the highest non-volcanic points in Guatemala. Chanjón falls within the Todos Santos Cuchumatán municipality, in the department of Huehuetenango.

She is a member of the cooperative ASDEFLOR, a collective of roughly 30 members, all of whom belong to the Mam Mayan Indigenous community. Though the group has a communal wet-mill where most producers can process their coffee, Josefa is able to use her mother’s de-pulper to process her own coffee.

This is our third year buying Josefa’s coffee and it's the third year her coffee has been available under her own name, previously spending her time working as the driving force of quality for her mother Christina Perez Ramirez.

Following her mother’s practice, Josefa picks ripe cherries and de-pulps the same day, and then let’s it ferment for several days under tarp, as it can get quite cold in the higher altitudes! These higher altitudes attribute to the sweetness of the coffee with the long ripening due to the fluctuation of the temperatures.

The coffee is then taken to a drying patio and left for 5-6 days. It’s a simple process, but allows for the quality of the fruit to shine. Josefa does not use any herbicides on her farm.

Brewing Recommendations:

We are absolutely in love with this harvest from Josefa, all her classic buttery sweet notes are there, but this harvest is really highlighting the plummy sweetness always present in her coffee.

Pour-over: 1:16-17 ratio, easy to work with, we love the 15g-250ml in the Kalita wave.

Espresso: 18g-18.5g in / 37g-39g out / 27-30 seconds. Very nice on espresso, sweet and clean, pops in milk!