Green Coffee Outlook October 2022 – Fresh Colombia and Nicaragua Arriving Soon!

Stay up to date on coffee we have coming down the pipeline and our latest green coffee outlook and arrivals schedule.

Halloween is almost here and we promise only ‘treats’ this month, no ‘tricks’! The end of September saw a few more incoming containers of coffee arrive at destination ports. Of note are a pair of shipments from NicaraguaNicaraguan coffees from the Segovia, Jinotega, Ocotal and Matagalpa regions are nice balanced cups. They often possess interesting cup character along with body and balance, outperforming many other..., and a single container from Costa RicaCosta Rican coffee is typically very clean, sweet, with lots of floral accents. hey are prized for their high notes: bright citrus or berry-like flavors in the acidity,.... These three mark the close of the 2022 Central American harvest for us.

These are by no means the last of our Central American coffees to come though, as we have a whole suite of single farmer coffees, small producer blends, and regional selections from GuatemalaGuatemalan coffee is considered a top quality coffee producer in Central America. Due to our proximity to Guatemala, some of the nicest coffees from this origin come to..., and El SalvadorEl Salvador coffee had an undeservingly poor reputation for years, marred mostly by the inability to deliver coffee of high quality in an unstable political climate. Unfortunately, agriculture... too available, and in the queue. These cover many of our more popular buying sources, such as our Xinabajul project in Huehuetenango, and a more recent PacamaraAs the name implies, Pacamara is a large bean cultivar, a cross between Pacas and Maragogype with unique flavor properties. This variant originated in El Salvador in 1958,... connection in El Salvador too.

The ColombiaColombian coffee is highly marketed and widely available in the US. They have been largely successful at equating the name Colombian Coffee with "Good" Coffee. This is half-true.... container arrived this week in Houston, and will still be at least 2 weeks before it arrives in Oakland. Last we checked in we were still selecting lots from the rather tight inventory. Thankfully longstanding partnerships in some of the main regions we buy from held strong, and we were able to procure a remarkably diverse group of coffees from Cauca, Tolima, and Huila. There are quite a few coffees from Nariño’s harvest peak, including a couple of honey process lots from Aponte, and a single EA (“sugarcane”) process decaf we pieced together from small producers, and was decaffeinated at Descafecol in Manizales.

Origin Updates

• PeruPeruvian coffees have Central American brightness but in a South American coffee flavor package overall. The good organic lots do have more of a "rustic" coffee character.: Organic...: We finished up our selections, procuring the later harvest coffees from high elevation zones. In addition to some of the usual suspects (coffees from Roger Chilcon and Andres Burga are tasting particularly nice!), we are purchasing a healthy chunk of green coffee from a new source, Ubiriki Cooperative. We wound up buying a full, 285 bag, container of single farm lots that are 20 to 40 bags in size. The quality of the coffees is quite nice as they sit. But the work they are currently putting into organicGrown without the use of artificial fertilizers, herbicides, etc.: Organic coffee has been grown according to organic farming techniques, typically without the use of artificial fertilizers. Some farms... technical support and post harvest practices stands to improve that quality next season.
• IndonesiaUSDA is (obviously) the United States Department of Agriculture. USDA also had coffee plant breeding programs in the past and one variety they distributed to Indonesia and was... & SE Asia: Tom just returned from a trip to SumatraIndonesians are available as a unique wet-hulled or dry-hulled (washed) coffees. Giling Basah is the name for the wet-hulling process in Bahasa language, and will have more body... and JavaThere are several types of Abyssinia variety coffee, but they are not from Ethiopia but rather Indonesia. Abyssinia 3 = AB3.  PJS Cramer, a Dutch plant researcher, introduced this variety... where he visited with a number of farmers and cooperatives we buy from, cuppingCupping is a method of tasting coffee by steeping grounds in separate cups for discrete amounts of ground coffee, to reveal good flavors and defects to their fullest.... farm samples for a 2023 container as well. Highlights included meeting with Daniel and Triyono at our favorite cooperative in Kerinci, where they do an amazing job producing washed, natural, and honey processThe honey process has nothing to do with honey other than the fact that they're both sticky! It's a term that became popularized in Costa Rica as another... coffees, and of course traditional wet hulled too! (In fact, we have a dry process lot right now under the name “Pendekar”, and more on the way later this month). The offers have continued to roll into Oakland on his return, and we’ve also managed to pin down a healthy chunk of coffee from TimorTimor-Leste (East Timor) is a tiny island between Australia and Sulawesi, annexed by Indonesia and liberated in a referendum several years ago. Small scale coffee farming was jump-started... Leste as well, repeating purchases from the village of Daurfusu, and several others. Be sure to check out Tom’s coffee clips from Sumatra and Java farm visits, as well as the photo journal from the trip.
• BrazilBrazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra sang, "they grow an awful lot of coffee in Brazil".: Brazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra...: We are buying coffees from Carmo de Minas again this year, and have already contracted 200 bags from a few farms in the Pedralva region. A couple of the lots we purchased were marked “honeyIn coffee, honey-like sweetness is often found, but we use terms such as refined honey (highly filtered and processed) as opposed to raw honey rustic honey sweetness. This... process”, though I’ll be honest, I think it’s a marketing ploy, likely just a pulp naturalPulp natural is a hybrid method of processing coffee to transform it from the tree fruit to a green bean, ready for export. Specifically, it involves the removal... process common to Brazil! Expect many of the same names, like FazendaFazenda is the Portuguese word for farm, hence it is the term used in Brazil. Fazenda is not a coffee-specific term. Sertao, and Pedra Branca.

Upcoming green coffees currently on the schedule to be added to our website:

Please keep in mind that the coffees on the Upcoming Coffee Outlook schedule with a location status of “In Transit” are still a bit of a wild card, and the month we have them listed under is based on the current shipping ETA, and subject to interruptions out of our control. Thanks for your patience!

October Coffee Outlook

Coffee Lots	Bags	Size	Location
Brazil Alta Mogiana Bom Jesus	50	60 KG	Oakland
Costa Rica La Pradera SWPSWP means Swiss Water Process is a patented water filtration decaf method, not a chemical solvent method. The plant is in Vancouver, Canada. Decaf	71	60 KG	Oakland
EthiopiaEthiopia, formerly known as Abyssinia, or a coffee cultivar: Ethiopia, or more specifically the Empire under Haile Selassie,  was known as Abyssinia. The name is Latin, derived from... Agaro Kedamai Coop	59	60 KG	Oakland
Ethiopia Nensebo Refisa	100	60 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Patzun FincaSpanish 101: Finca is the Spanish word for farm. Sometimes the term Hacienda is used to imply an Estate, which would mean the farm has its own wet-mill.... Las Camelias	42	46 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Xinabajul Aler Villatoro	64	69 KG	Oakland
KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East... Thika Oreti AB	19	60 KG	Oakland
Kenya Muranga Nguku PeaberryA peaberry is a green coffee "bean" that has a rounded form: Coffee is the dried seed from the fruit of a flowering tree - each fruit having...	4	60 KG	Oakland
Kenya Kirinyaga Kamwangi PeaberryThe Spanish-language term for Peaberry is the same for "snail". See Peaberry for more information on the single bean fruit of the coffee tree. A peaberry is the...	28	60 KG	Oakland
Sumatra Honey Process Bebesen Aulia	10	60 KG	Oakland
Sumatra Wet ProcessWet-processing starts by removing the outer skin of the coffee cherry with a machine called a pulper, then fermenting the remaining fruit (with green bean inside) in water... Ribang GayoGayo is ethnic group from the area of Aceh Sumatra around Lake Takengon. They use the name Gayo Coffee to market their production. The Acehnese are a different...	40	60 KG	Oakland
TanzaniaIn terms of the Tanzania coffee character, it belongs to the Central/East African family of washed (wet-processed) coffees, bright (acidy), and mostly aggressively flavorful of which Kenya is... Mbinga Peaberry	22	60 KG	Oakland
Timorindo SWP Decaf Blend	70	60 KG	Oakland
YemenYemen has a coffee culture like no other place, and perhaps some of what we enjoy in this cup is due to their old style of trade...: Technically,... MokhaThe Yemeni type of coffee, both in terms of the family of cultivars planted there, and the general trade name.: Mokha Yemeni type of coffee, both in terms... Hajjah	100	32 KG	Oakland
Sweet Maria’s Ethiopiques 2.0	n/a	n/a	Oakland

November Coffee Outlook (So far!)

Coffee Lots	Bags	Size	Location
Brazil Dry ProcessDry process coffee is a method for taking the fruit from the tree to an exportable green bean. The whole intact coffee cherry is dried in the sun... Cafeicultores de Minas	75	60 KG	Oakland
Colombia Inzá Rio Paez	26	70 KG	Oakland
Colombia Tolima China Alta	32	70 KG	Oakland
Colombia Veredas Vecinas	29	70 KG	Oakland
Costa Rica Red Honey Los Monge (name may change)	30	69 KG	Oakland
El Salvador Santa Ana Pacamara	8	69 KG	Oakland
El Salvador Comasagua San Antonio	80	69 KG	Oakland
Ethiopia Organic Yebuna Terara SWP Decaf	69	60 KG	Oakland
Ethiopia Kayon Mountain Taaroo	160	60 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Xinabajul El Paraiso	26	69 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Xinabajul Michicoy	29	69 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Acatenango GeshaGesha is a long-bean Ethiopia selection with unique cup character. Gesha is the name of the town in Western Ethiopia where the original samples were collected. Spelling it...	45	46 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Xinabajul Boqueroncito	50	69 KG	Oakland
Guatemala Coban Chichupak Coop	50	69 KG	Oakland
Kenya Kiambu Fram Farm AB	66	60 KG	Oakland
Kenya Nyeri Gatugi AB	70	60 KG	Oakland
Nicaragua Finca Buenos Aires	40	69 KG	Oakland
Sumatra Kerinci Pendekar Coop	50	60 KG	Oakland
Sweet Maria’s Polar Expresso Holiday Blend	n/a	n/a	Oakland
Sweet Maria’s SWP Moka Java Decaf Blend	n/a	n/a	Oakland

Incoming coffees currently on the water: October – November

African Arrivals

Coffee Lots	Bags	Size	ETA
Ethiopia Kecho Anderecha	130	60 KG	Oct 21
Ethiopia Dry Process Mansur Aba Hikam	50	60 KG	Oct 28
Ethiopia Dry Process Mahamed Aba Nura	50	60 KG	Oct 28
Ethiopia Dry Process Aba Mecha	20	60 KG	Oct 28
Ethiopia Dry Process Aba Bulgu	70	60 KG	Oct 28
YDC lot #1 SM	160	60 KG	Nov 5
RwandaA Bourbon cultivar variant from Rwanda and Burundi. Bourbon coffees are named for the island in the India Ocean where French colonists grew it. Some history from the... Kivu Kageyo	55	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Rulindo Tumba	40	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Karongi Gitesi	50	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Small Producer Selection	50	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Nyamasheke Mutovu	45	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Nyamasheke Gitwe	50	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Rulindo Tumba	10	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Honey Process Gatare	20	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Special Selection Peaberry Lot 1	30	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Special Selection Peaberry Lot 2	35	60 KG	Nov 15
Rwanda Nyamasheke Gatare	54	60 KG	Nov 15
BurundiBurundi coffee bears resemblance to neighboring Rwanda, in both cup character, but also the culture surrounding coffee. Burundi is a small landlocked country at the crossroads of East... Kiganda Murambi	50	60 KG	TBD
Burundi Kiganda Murambi	33	60 KG	TBD
Burundi Dry Process Murambi	23	60 KG	TBD
Burundi Rwiri Yagikawa	45	60 KG	TBD
Burundi Rwiri Yagikawa	35	60 KG	TBD
Burundi Kayanza Kazoza N’Ikawa	50	60 KG	TBD
Burundi Kayanza Kazoza N’Ikawa	24	60 KG	TBD

Central American Arrivals

Coffee Lots	Bags	Size	ETA
Nicaragua Finca Buenos Aires	20	69 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Buenos Aires San Salvador	20	70 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Buenos Aires MaracaturraAs the name indicates cross between large-bean Maragogype and Caturra cultivars. : As the name indicates cross between large-bean Maragogype and Caturra cultivars. It seems to be found... Juniors	20	71 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Buenos Aires Los Pinos	30	72 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Finca El Lino	20	73 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Ojo de Agua	30	74 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Finca Buenos Aires	40	75 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Dipilto Finca La Laguna	40	76 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Buenos Aires San Salvador	10	77 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Buenos Aires Maracaturra	10	78 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Maracaturra Juniors	20	79 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Honey Process Buenos Aires	10	80 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Honey Process San Salvador Java	2	81 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Dry Process Buenos Aires	5	82 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Dry Process El Suyatal	10	83 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Acopio Suyatal	40	84 KG	Arrived
Nicaragua Buenos Aires San Salvador	20	85 KG	Arrived

South America Incoming Coffees

Coffee Lots	Bags	Size	ETA
Colombia Inzá Julian Piedra	15	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Honey Process Cristian Martinez	11	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Honey Process Aponte	25	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Nariño Vereda Buesaco	11	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Nariño Vereda San Miguel	31	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Valencia Luis Hernán	15	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Tolima China Alta	32	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Inzá Rio Paez	26	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Tolima Vereda Santa Rita	32	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Veredas Vecinas	29	70 KG	Arrived
Colombia Buesaco EA Decaf	58	70 KG	Arrived
Peru Martin Tiberio García	35	69 KG	TBD
Peru Finca Modelo Lot #1	35	69 KG	TBD
Peru Yapaz Javier Estares	20	69 KG	TBD
Peru Pitocuna Alejandro Huisa	20	69 KG	TBD
Peru Yapaz Arnulfo Quispe	25	69 KG	TBD
Peru Yapaz Rafael Alvarado	30	69 KG	TBD
Peru Pichanaki Alez Gómez	40	69 KG	TBD
Peru Anastacio Vargas Romani Gesha	2	69 KG	TBD
Peru Finca Modelo Lot #2	35	69 KG	TBD
Peru Leonidas Navarro Pachecho	35	69 KG	TBD
Peru Roberto Magdo Acuña	8	69 KG	TBD
Peru Eli Chilcon FloresFlores is an Indonesian island, and as a coffee bears more resemblance to the coffees of Timor-Leste, New Guinea and Java than to the wet-hulled coffees of Sumatra...	45	69 KG	TBD
Peru Bello Horizonte Andres Burga	25	69 KG	TBD
Peru Elmer Mego Gonzales	50	69 KG	TBD
Peru Sarmiento Altomirano	50	69 KG	TBD
Peru El Diamante Roger Chilcon	40	69 KG	TBD
Brazil Luis Otavio Turati	50	60 Kg Bags	TBD
Brazil Baltazar Jose Da Siveira	49	60 Kg Bags	TBD
Brazil Baltazar Jose Da Siveira	48	60 Kg Bags	TBD
Brazil Baltazar Jose Da Siveira	33	60 Kg Bags	TBD
Brazil Viviana Aparecida Souza	43	60 Kg Bags	TBD