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: Butter Tart, Yellow Raisin, Vanilla, Milk Chocolate

Transparency: Farmgate 1500 quetzales per quintal(100lb) of parchment paid directly to ASDEFLROR, Shared Source paid for transport to dry mill. We paid Shared Source $5.00usd + brokerage and shipping from New Jersey.

Josefa Jerónimo, ASDEFLOR

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 second year buying Josefa’s coffee and it's the second 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.

In the cup -

When we first cupped this coffee we got so much sweetness and butteryness off of it, a perfect example of an excellent coffee from Huehuetenango. This year is featuring different varietals, but we're getting that same sweet butteryness, if not even more so! 

This coffee performs great as an everyday crusher on filter, and does excellently as an espresso, transforming short milk drinks into sweet treats!