Juan Roderiguez GUATEMALA

£15.80
  • Blood Orange, Honey, Floral

High up in the mountains of Huehuetenango, outside the town of Aldea Xayomblaj, lives Juan Rodriguez, who alongside his wife tends to their 1.1 acre farm. From multi-generational producers comes this beautifully sweet and floral lot, and it’s a joy to see it return for a third year.

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BUYING STANDARDS

It’s really important for us to work with trusted partners in our supply chain who can provide us with honesty and traceability. We have created a set of guidelines to help us source coffee in a way we feel aligns with our values and beliefs. There are three core categories that we think outline the most important factors to consider when purchasing coffee: economic transparency, social relationship, and environmental efforts.

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CARBON IMPACT

Our Roaster:
We’ve recently switched to a new electric Typhoon roaster which allows us to significantly reduce our carbon footprint. We selected it for its capacity, efficiency, and to maintain the same high-quality roasting. This transition also marks a step toward our long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral, with a commitment to using 100% renewable electricity.

Our Packaging:
Our 250g bags are paper based and can be recycled with kerbside recycling or composted in your garden. We recommend storing your coffee in an airtight container like this one. Our 1kg bags are 70% wastemade (LDPE4) and recyclable with soft plastic at the supermarket. Please don't put them in your curbside recycling. The planet thanks you!

Details

Relationship

2 Years

Producer

Juan Rodriguez

Origin

Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Variety

Caturra, Bourbon, Catimor

Process

Washed

Buying Standard

Buying Standard

Young Producer

Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes

Blood Orange, Honey, Floral

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BUYING STANDARDS

It’s really important for us to work with trusted partners in our supply chain who can provide us with honesty and traceability. We have created a set of guidelines to help us source coffee in a way we feel aligns with our values and beliefs. There are three core categories that we think outline the most important factors to consider when purchasing coffee: economic transparency, social relationship, and environmental efforts.

Learn more

OUR PACKAGING

Our 250g bags are now fully kurbside recyclable, paper packaging. All online orders will be shipped in our plastic free bags, you can check out the reasons why we made the change here. Our 1kg bags are LDPE 4 packaging, a type of soft plastic, very common in food packaging. For home consumers LDPE 4 is still not curbside recyclable, but is accepted at local recycling points and dedicated soft plastics deposit points. Find a location near you.

ROASTING ON RENEWABLES

We’ve recently switched to a new electric Typhoon roaster which allows us to significantly reduce our carbon footprint. We selected it for its capacity, efficiency, and to maintain the same high-quality roasting. This transition also marks a step toward our long-term goal of becoming carbon neutral, with a commitment to using 100% renewable electricity. Though the installation required a significant investment in new power infrastructure, the move reinforces our dedication to sustainability and strengthens our promise to customers that we deliver on our environmental commitments.

Buying Standards

Young Producer

The Yallah Buying Standards are a set of criteria to enable us to source coffee in a way we feel aligns with our values and principles.

The future of coffee depends on many things, potentially the most important aspect is a new generation of producers who are willing to take up the mantle of those that came before. We are seeing young people migrate to urban areas in search of a better life, making it imperative to support the involvement and development of young coffee professionals in producing regions as much as possible.

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meet the producer

Juan Rodriguez

It was from their parents that Juan and his wife learned how to cultivate and process coffee before buying land and starting their own coffee farming journey. Now well established their coffee is consistently some of the best we cup during the Guatemalan season, with a bright blood orange acidity, honey sweetness and hints of floral. It is a firm favourite of ours through these warm summer months.

It gives us hope to hear of young people starting to farm coffee, where the global average age of a producer is between 50-60, the future of coffee lies with this new generation. With the promise of a better quality of life in the cities, more work is needed to entice people into coffee production.

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COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

Guatemala

Guatemala is renowned for its exceptional coffee quality. Coffee production and export has always been an important part of Guatemalan economy and culture, with the country being the eighth largest exporter of coffee in the world. Coffees from Guatemala tend to be appreciated for their sweetness and balance in the cup due to its high altitude and volcanic soils.

EDUCATION

Brew Guides

Tried and tested recipes from the roastery.