Rum Baba - Guatemala Classic [Filter]

Origin

Guatemala Huehuetenango (Various Small holders)

Variety

Processing

Washed

Altitude

2000 MASL

Roast Profile

Filter

Taste Notes

Notes of DarkChocolate, Red Apple, Maple Syrup

Coffee Facts

Grown in one of the most famous coffee-growing regions in Guatemala, Guatemala Huehuetenango reveals a wonderful sweetness, rounded creamy notes and mild citrusy flavours of orange and strawberry that make it perfect as a base for lattes, cappuccinos and filter coffees.

Sourced from the Cooperativa Agricola Integral Nuestro Futuro, at the Eastern edge of Huehuetenango, Guatemala Huehuetenango coffee is grown in ideal microclimates, where cherries are picked and wet processed, before being dried on flat rooftop patios.

Coffee growing has helped fuel Guatemala’s economy for over a hundred years. Today, an estimated 125,000 coffee producers drive Guatemala’s coffee industry and coffee remains one of Guatemala’s principal export products, accounting for 40% of all agricultural export revenue.

It is most likely that Jesuit missionaries introduced coffee to Guatemala, and there are accounts of coffee being grown in the country as early as mid-18th century. Nonetheless, as in neighbouring El Salvador, coffee only became an important export crop for the country at the advent of synthetic dyes and industrial use in textiles – in the mid-19th century.

Throughout the latter half of the 1800s, various government programs sought to promote coffee as a means to stimulate the economy, including a massive land program started by President Justo Rufino Barrias in 1871, which resulted in the creation of large coffee estates, many of which still produce some of the best Guatemalan coffee available today.