Harvest Season News & Events | Saturday, April 9th, 2016

April marks the beginning of harvest season in the village of Los Patos, Amazonas, Peru. This season has been off to a slow start, but we are excited nonetheless. We have a couple of developments in processing that have us very excited! First, we rebuilt out raised drying bed so that it can dry a greater amount of coffee. Even, efficient drying can greatly improve the quality of coffee, and we expect that the rebuilt drying bed will help us to further improve this year’s crop. We have started “floating” beans prior to pulping. We don’t have extensive built infrastructure so we are doing this in a series of tubs and buckets, but this helps us to sort out “floaters” that are usually either over-ripe or under-ripe beans. This will help improve the flavor of the coffee you drink as well. The last development that we have for this year is the separation out of our peak season beans, which is a quality sort that will help us separate out what we expect the best beans of the season, so that we can offer you the best coffee.