Liberacion

Guatemala

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Our Union Promise: You can enjoy your coffee knowing it is always sourced direct from farmers via Union Direct Trade. Always high quality speciality coffee, carefully roasted fresh to order.

Rich and full bodied

A great lazy afternoon or after-dinner coffee.
Flavour Category
chocolate & caramel chocolate & caramel
High quality coffee has wide ranging, naturally occurring taste notes. The dominant flavour profile in this coffee is Chocolate & Caramel. Brought out by the roasting process – caramelisation happens towards the end of the roast. Generally the darker the roast, the more dominant the chocolate and caramel flavours are.
Roast
This coffee is a medium roast. Roast level influences the flavour and body of coffee. Darker roasts are fuller bodied, lighter roasts brighter. A medium roasted coffee bean is medium brown in colour. It retains many of the flavour profiles of the natural bean but also gains some sweetness and body from a longer roast.
Quality Score
84.75
Coffee scoring over 80 on Speciality Coffee Association scale is considered High Quality, Speciality Coffee.
Best Brewed As
cafetiere
This coffee is best brewed as a cafetiere (French press). All our coffees can be brewed using any method, but this is our recommendation for a method which suits the coffee particularly well.
espresso
This coffee is best brewed as an espresso (coffee shop type machine or a bean to cup). All our coffees can be brewed using any method, but this is our recommendation for a method which suits the coffee particularly well.
filter
This coffee is best brewed as a filter (cafetiere, pour over, aeropress, drip, etc.). All our coffees can be brewed using any method, but this is our recommendation for a method which suits the coffee particularly well.
Processing Method
This coffee was processed using the washed method. Post-harvest processing influences the taste profile. Washed coffees are brighter, naturally processed are sweeter and honey processed are somewhere in between.

More about this coffee

Produced by smallholder farmers of Esquipulas co-operative in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, in conditions about as perfect as you can get. A high altitude – over 1,500 meters – fertile soil, and glorious sunshine.

VARIETALS

  • Bourbon
  • Pache
  • Typica
  • Catuai

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Esquipulas

Guatemala

Produced by smallholder farmers of the Esquipulas co-operative in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, in conditions about as perfect as you can get - a high altitude over 1,500 MASL, fertile soil, and glorious sunshine. We’ve been working with the Esquipulas co-operative since 2009 and in that time we’ve seen them grow significantly, now working with more than 230 smallholder farmers. The farmers grow on average 1 hectare of coffee, alongside subsistence crops such as maize and beans.

Each farmer pulps, ferments and washes their coffee at home, then delivers samples to the co-operative to be roasted and cupped by trained cuppers. Only the highest-quality coffee is selected for Union. The farmers are given feedback based on the cupping results on how to further improve quality through attention to post-harvest process. Iliana Martinez, the General Manager of the Esquipulas Cooperative highlighted why producing high-quality coffee is so important to their co-operative:

“When we visit communities that are so poor, and we see how the world market takes advantage of them - it motivates us to work hard. Coffee is the most important crop in Huehuetenango, it moves the economy (whether prices are low or high). Producers had no idea what quality coffee is, or that quality could be the solution. We needed to develop a program of teaching and training to help people understand how they should grow high-quality coffee.”

The Esquipulas co-operative doesn’t just provide guidance in producing high-quality coffee but plays an important role in the general development of the area. They operate a health care centre and pharmacy which provides services to community members at subsided costs. They also employ agronomists who monitor the coffee fields of the members, providing assistance when needed. With ~40 employees, the co-operative is also an important source of employment in the area.

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