Origin: San Agustin, Huila, Colombia

Producer: Various Monkaaba Producers

Process: Washed

Varieties: Pink Bourbon, Yellow Colombia

Altitude: 1750-1800masl

Importer: Semilla with Monkaaba

Roast: Medium

Notes: Pear, Almond Brittle, Orange, Milk Chocolate

Transparency: 

• These lots were purchased for various prices averaging between $5.50-$6.63USD
• Farmgate price was COP$3,350,000~ and national farmgate at the time was averaging around COP$2,900,000.
• FOB price was $4.59/lb.

Big Sipper

Ah the Big Sipper, our ideal every day drinker. This iteration of The Big Sipper comes to us from two members of the Monkaaba Group in San Agustin, Colombia, Faiver Córdoba & Alvaro Galindez.

Entering our fourth year of buying from the folks at Monkaaba, they're a super important partner to us. Monkaaba is a producer led exporter that helps rural farmers gain access to the specialty coffee market where they can be fairly compensated for their work.

The Big Sipper will always be a mid acidity, high sweetness, totally crushable cup. The beans will change with what is seasonally available, and supremely sippable. HAPPY SIPPIN'! 

Monkaaba

Working together, Semilla and Monkaaba provide a rare opportunity for most producers. They run a free to use cupping lab in San Agustin, Huila that allows small producers to taste their own coffees and receive feedback from veteran producers on how to improve quality.

This is extremely contrary to how most other buying systems work, and commodity works, where buyers benefit from coffee producers NOT knowing the quality of their coffee, so they can continue offering low prices to producers, and sell for higher profits.

This project is all about empowering and educating producers to reach micro-lot status, and financial stability through coffee production.

Interested in reading more about Monkaaba? Let me guide you to our lovely friends website to read more! - https://www.semilla.ca/projects/1jq18VvLX0WoyK7hvxeeLM