Harmony - Guatemala

Origin

Guatemala

Variety

Bourbon, Caturra and Pache 

Processing

Washed

Altitude

1800 - 1900 Masl

Roast Profile

Omni-Roast

Echelon

Notes of Rich Red apple, Red grape, Brown sugar and Brownie Bites

Coffee Facts

Hunchouen is conformed by small producers in Tajumuco. The collective was formed in 1970 and it is made by 550 small producers. The network of small coffee producers in the northwestern highlands of Guatemala, specifically in the Tajumuco region of Huehuetenango. For every 30 kg bag of Hunchouen coffee sold, we contribute to our educational initiative, El Colegio. El Colegio is a social project of Caribbean Goods dedicated to educating the children of the coffee pickers, providing them with literacy skills and basic English language instruction.

Among the Mayans, the howler monkey god was a primary deity of art and music and a patron of the artisans, especially the scribes and sculptors.According to the sixteenth-century Popol Vuh creation myth, two brothers, Hunbatz and Hunchouen, were once talented dancers and artists. By nature, these two sons were wise, and their wisdom was great. All the arts were taught to Hunbatz and Hunchouén, the sons of Hun-Hunahpú. They were flautists, singers, shooters with blowguns, painters, sculptors, jewellers and silversmiths. The story goes that they climbed a tree; it grew up so tall that Hunbatz and Hunchouen could not get down. As they struggled in the branches, their loincloths came loose and turned into tails; they both became monkeys, one a spider monkey, the other a howler monkey.