In the Aeropress, we prefer to use the inverted method for a more even extraction:

- Place the Aeropress upside down and make sure you have a solid connection between both parts as you will need to flip it later

- Add 12 g of freshly ground coffee of medium grind size

- Add 200 g of water just off the boil and stirr well so all the coffee grounds will extract evenly

- Let steep for 2 minutes, then screw on the lid including the paper filter you've wetted before to make it stick

- Hold the Aeropress at the conjunction of the upper and lower part and flip carefully

- Place onto a stable vessel and start pressing until you hear air coming out

- Enjoy!

Origin: Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Petatán

Producer: Narcisa Salucio & Paula Perez of Jovemcafe GAT

Varietals: Caturra, Catimor

Altitude: 2000 masl

Processing: washed

Sourced through Primavera Green Coffee

This is the fourth season that we've sourced this wonderful coffee - and it delivers year after year! A bit of magic in your cup: It has notes of caramel, prune jam and some hints of tropical fruit through an extra long fermentation but retains that crisp and clean acidity by giving the coffee a second soaking before drying.

This lot represents coffee from two of the producers in the group called Jovemcafe, Narcisa Salucio and Paula Perez. These women producers depulp their coffees shortly after picking and they, along with their families, manage the processing of their coffees at small home wet mills. It is here that the coffee is depulped after picking.

The community where these producers live, called Com, is high in elevation and relatively cool, requiring a relatively long and slow fermentation of up to 58 hours. Paula is an agronomist in training and it was her experimentation that led this group to adopt longer fermentations.

Once fermentation is complete and the coffee has been washed, most of the women in the group place the coffee in a tank and allow it to soak in clean water for a second soaking. Once this is complete, the coffee can be placed on the patio for about 4-5 days in order to dry it thoroughly and prepare it for delivery to the warehouse.

Jovemcafe is a GAT (Grupo de Amistad y Trabajo, or a friendship and working group) that is led by indigneous Popti women in the Com community outside San Antonio Huista. (A GAT is a group that hopes to formally constitute as a cooperative one day.) The women of Com started this group in 2017 to work together to market their coffee and provide savings and microcredit services to the group’s members. The group’s hardworking young leader, Paula Isabel Perez Perez, studied at the local agronomy school to become a coffee agronomy professional. Jovemcafe created a development project that is supported by Primavera and The Chain Collaborative (TCC). Through TCC’s Community-Led Development Incubator, Jovemcafe has organized a two part project. First, they
started a henhouse for egg-laying hens, so that the group can earn additional income by selling eggs. Second, they are creating a nursery for forest trees, as well as fruit and wood trees, to sell throughout the local community. They will also harvest the manure from the hens to use as organic fertilizer for the nursery.

This group hopes to formally become a cooperative one day, and has begun selling their high-quality coffees to Primavera Green Coffee. Through a partnership with The Chain Collaborative, they are supporting this group to create a nursery for forest trees and an organic compost project via their Community-Led Development incubator.

As a women run roastery we're always searching for coffees produced by women and our Green Coffee Partners at Primavera Green Coffee do a great job sourcing fantastic coffees from some amazing women producers.