We’re excited by innovation and its potential for impact. With this as our motivation, we seek out opportunities to collaborate with producers who share our vision and supports our goal to set the leading example for the specialty coffee movement in roasted coffees that are the pinnacle of quality.
We bring these coffees to you with Elevated Brewing. Our Elevated Brewing range shares the extraordinary and it’s here we illuminate farming and processing methods of producers at the frontier of innovation that, above all else, provide remarkable flavour experiences.
Recommended brewing
Best
Pour Over
Great Filter (batch brew, French Press, Chemex)
Very good Espresso
Grind settings
Kinu M47 —
Set dial to zero
Turn two and three-quarter turns
For naturally processed coffees, grind slightly coarser.
While Guatemala's coffee sector is well-established, historically producers have found it a challenge to get access to premium markets and the opportunities within. Recognising this through her own experience with Finca Filadelfia - the farm established by her great, great, great grandfather Manuel Matheu and considered the kick-starter of the country's first and most prolific coffee-growing region of Antigua - in 2011 Marta Dalton founded Coffee Bird.Fast forward 13 years and Coffee Bird is the country's preeminent coffee sourcing organisation. Bringing coffees of the highest quality to markets all over the world, we've enjoyed numerous exceptional examples over the years. This latest coffee was made possible by Coffee Bird's new Tierra Santa producer programme - an initiative to bring together coffees produced by Antigua's smallholders and process them with pioneering post-harvest technology. Producers of this specific coffee:
— Juan José Gomez
— Luis Alfredo Gonzalez
— Hugo Gonzalez
— Wenceslao Lopez
— Rafael Morales
The coffee was processed with a carbonic maceration technique. The cherries were placed in an air-tight tank, injected with CO2 (similar to the method used in wine) to kick-start a fermentation lasting 96 hours and then dried in cherry. The result is a cup of rich tropical fruit notes and a velvety texture that's often a hallmark of coffees processed in these ways. Get ready to have any preconceptions of Guatemalan coffee well and truly reframed.
