We've talked about a lot of coffees from one particular farm in Guatemala this past year—Finca Concepción Buena Vista—and for good reason. The coffees have been absolutely stellar, and we've loved sharing all of them with our retail and wholesale customers!

We’re busy cupping through the fresh 2023 harvest samples that will be available later this year, but until then, we’ve saved the best of the 2022 harvest for last.

This unique coffee is an amazing nitro-lactic macerated natural-processed coffee that took 3rd place in the 2022 Guatemala One of a Kind Auction put on by Anacafé and The Alliance for Coffee Excellence. We were lucky to be able to secure a large portion of the auction lot through our friends at Co-Trade Imports, who have helped us bring in all of our coffee from San Martín Jilotepeque for the past two seasons.

This coffee used for this microlot—called San Joaquín—is a drought and leaf rust-resistant Anacafe 14 varietal, and was grown at 1800 meters above sea level. After picking, the coffee was macerated with nitrogen for 48 hours in an aluminum tank with 1.5 bars of pressure and a 5% concentration of lactic bacteria.

After removal from the tank, the coffee was carefully dried on raised beds in the greenhouse at the farm for 20 days. The resulting cup is incredibly complex and creamy—we taste cherry, bubblegum, turbinado sugar, & even pineapple juice!

If you haven’t had a chance to try our final release from the 2022 harvest, now is the time! It's available until the end of the month in 8 oz. retail bags to take with you, or on drip and manual brew at both of our shops. (Limited online sales coming next week too!)

A one-of-a-kind coffee from Guatemala