Guatemala - Los Huipiles - Single Origin
A Huipil is a traditional garment worn by Huehuetenango’s indigenous women with literally woven and patterned natural and spiritual symbolism. Rivers, mountains and animals conveying the sacred accompanied by zigzag patterns, representing perhaps life’s adulating journey. The fabric of unity and sisterhood knitted together by supernatural sinews of tradition signifying an eternal bond of past, present and hope. A befitting accolade to the rich and ethereally rich flavors of our Guatemala Los Huipiles… dark chocolate, brown sugar sweetness, deep nuttiness and rich dried fruit with heavy body yet mild citrus acidity.
This is a powerful coffee to put a spring in you morning step and, perhaps with a little imagination, strike visions of the temperate Huehuetenango’s mountain valley winds, melodic streams and the panorama of the symbolic Huipil’s generational gravitas that interweaves the humanity of this great land.
Process Washed… coffee fruited flesh removed with pure mountain water and beans dried on raised beds.
Elevation: 5000 - 6000 feet
Aroma: Spiced sweetness with deep fruit.
Flavor: Mild acidity…. deep fruit akin to black current and plum… dark chocolate, brown sugar and spice sweetness.
Roast: Medium… heavy body.
A Huipil is a traditional garment worn by Huehuetenango’s indigenous women with literally woven and patterned natural and spiritual symbolism. Rivers, mountains and animals conveying the sacred accompanied by zigzag patterns, representing perhaps life’s adulating journey. The fabric of unity and sisterhood knitted together by supernatural sinews of tradition signifying an eternal bond of past, present and hope. A befitting accolade to the rich and ethereally rich flavors of our Guatemala Los Huipiles… dark chocolate, brown sugar sweetness, deep nuttiness and rich dried fruit with heavy body yet mild citrus acidity.
This is a powerful coffee to put a spring in you morning step and, perhaps with a little imagination, strike visions of the temperate Huehuetenango’s mountain valley winds, melodic streams and the panorama of the symbolic Huipil’s generational gravitas that interweaves the humanity of this great land.
Process Washed… coffee fruited flesh removed with pure mountain water and beans dried on raised beds.
Elevation: 5000 - 6000 feet
Aroma: Spiced sweetness with deep fruit.
Flavor: Mild acidity…. deep fruit akin to black current and plum… dark chocolate, brown sugar and spice sweetness.
Roast: Medium… heavy body.
A Huipil is a traditional garment worn by Huehuetenango’s indigenous women with literally woven and patterned natural and spiritual symbolism. Rivers, mountains and animals conveying the sacred accompanied by zigzag patterns, representing perhaps life’s adulating journey. The fabric of unity and sisterhood knitted together by supernatural sinews of tradition signifying an eternal bond of past, present and hope. A befitting accolade to the rich and ethereally rich flavors of our Guatemala Los Huipiles… dark chocolate, brown sugar sweetness, deep nuttiness and rich dried fruit with heavy body yet mild citrus acidity.
This is a powerful coffee to put a spring in you morning step and, perhaps with a little imagination, strike visions of the temperate Huehuetenango’s mountain valley winds, melodic streams and the panorama of the symbolic Huipil’s generational gravitas that interweaves the humanity of this great land.
Process Washed… coffee fruited flesh removed with pure mountain water and beans dried on raised beds.
Elevation: 5000 - 6000 feet
Aroma: Spiced sweetness with deep fruit.
Flavor: Mild acidity…. deep fruit akin to black current and plum… dark chocolate, brown sugar and spice sweetness.
Roast: Medium… heavy body.
Almost exactly the size of Tennessee, with approximately 2 ½ times the population, and 1200 miles from the southernmost Texas border, Guatemala is considered the pinnacle of Central American Coffee. Bordered north and west by Mexico, east by Belize, southeast by Honduras and southwest by El Salvador, while complimented by a long southwestern Pacific coastline and abbreviated northeastern Caribbean coastline located directly between Belize and Honduras, Guatemala can be considered the gateway to Central America.
At approximately mile marker 4400, Huehuetenanago, translated “place of the ancients”, province is Guatemala’s entre to the 19,000 mile long Pan-American Highway stretching from northern Alaska to the southern tip of Argentia and is considered the world’s longest “motorable road”. The Huehuetenango coffee region, geographically synonymous with the Guatemalan political province of Huehuetenanago, borders the Mexican state of Chiapas to the northwest with the province’s capital city, also named Huehuetenanago, approximately 170 miles northwest from the Guatemalan capital of Guatemala City. The Mam, an indigenous Maya people, dominate Huehuetenango’s population and the ancient ruins of Zaculeu, translated “white earth”, dating 250-600 AD were once the ceremonial center of their pre-Columbian civilization. In October 1525, Zaculeu was besieged, defeated and expropriated to the Spanish Crown by conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Contreras. The site is now a national historical site featuring 43, mostly thickly plastered stone, structures grouped around small plazas constructed over a 15,000 square feet area. Built along the banks of the Selegua and Vina Rivers at an elevation of 6,200 feet, Zaculeu gives perspective to this region’s incredible coffee pedigree. Small remote farms at dizzying mountainous heights, with numerous rivers to facilitate processing, are the source of Huehuetenango’s intense and full-bodied coffees. The inevitable frost is thwarted due to heat layers promoted by the dry, hot winds from Mexico’s mountainous Tehuantepec plain.
Guatemala Los Huipiles SHB 2024 highlights the regions high altitude growing conditions with a rich, concentrated flavor of chocolate and pleasantly sweet fruit notes accompanied by bright citrus acidity. Local farmers employ sustainable farming and cooperative harvesting methods with ampule pure mountain water available for processing. SHB, acronym for “Strictly Hard Bean”, is the most prestigious of the 5 level Guatemalan bean ranking system and is reserved for cultivated elevations greater than 4500 square feet where conditions contribute to a denser richer bean. A Huipil is a traditional garment worn by Huehuetenango’s indigenous women with literally woven and patterned natural and spiritual symbolism. Rivers, mountains and animals conveying the sacred accompanied by zigzag patterns, representing perhaps life’s adulating journey. The fabric of unity and sisterhood knitted together by supernatural sinews of tradition signifying an eternal bond of past, present and hope. A befitting accolade to the rich and ethereally rich flavors of our Guatemala Los Huipiles… dark chocolate, brown sugar sweetness, deep nuttiness and rich dried fruit with heavy body yet mild citrus acidity.
This is a powerful coffee to put a spring in you morning step and, perhaps with a little imagination, strike visions of the temperate Huehuetenango’s mountain valley winds, melodic streams and the panorama of the symbolic Huipil’s generational gravitas that interweaves the humanity of this great land.
Process Washed… coffee fruited flesh removed with pure mountain water and beans dried on raised beds.
Elevation: 5000 - 6000 feet
Aroma: Spiced sweetness with deep fruit.
Flavor: Mild acidity…. deep fruit akin to black current and plum… dark chocolate, brown sugar and spice sweetness.
Roast: Medium… heavy body.
Process: Wet… Washed
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Flavor: Chocolaty, nutty, buttery and rich with subtle notes of plum and raisin
Roast: Medium… Creamy, balanced and full bodied with medium brightness. Very balanced.
