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Holiday Blend Ethiopia + Guatemala + Burundi
Extra Bold Profile | Dark roast
Tasting Notes: Baking Spices, Smoked Caramel, Toffee
IT ALL STARTS AT THE COFFEE FARM
This coffee is a blend of three amazing coffees:
Ethiopia
Kayon Mountain Farm, established in 2012 in Ethiopia’s Guji Zone, is a family-owned coffee farm. Located in Taro Kebele, where coffee is the primary cash crop, the farm supports local producers through its Taro washing station.
Beyond coffee production, Kayon Mountain prioritizes social responsibility by having built a local high school, distributing seedlings, aiding farmers financially, and supporting an orphanage. The 150-hectare farm, with fertile volcanic soil, employs 30 permanent and up to 450 seasonal workers. Coffee trees, intercropped with shade-providing false banana trees, yield harvests from October to January.
Taro washing station processes coffees meticulously: for the natural process, cherries are hand-sorted, floated to remove unripe cherries, and sun-dried on raised beds for 15–18 days, with careful turning and covering to ensure even drying. Though challenging, skilled natural processing enhances the coffee’s terroir, yielding sweet, fruity profiles.
Kayon Mountain combines premium coffee production with community development, improving livelihoods while delivering exceptional coffees.
Guatemala
Nestled in the highlands near Todos Santos, a group of courageous women dared to challenge the status quo of their community. Despite facing limited access and discrimination, they embarked on a journey to create a coffee that would not only bring them more financial stability but also help uplift their community. These women came together to form a collective known as "Mujeres luchando por un mejor futuro," or "Women fighting for a better future".
With a lot of time and hard work, they were able to gain access to the necessary resources to produce a delicious, high quality coffee. Their membership has grown to 276 women as “Mujeres luchando por un mejor futuro” continue to inspire women from neighboring communities within Todos Santos to follow their footsteps and create their own paths.
The coffee they produce is also known as "Ella": the direct translation of “ELLA” into English is “SHE”, but ELLA is a coffee that represents the resilience, strength, and determination of these women. It's a coffee that's produced with care and attention to detail, reflecting the hard work and dedication of Ilse, Gresdi, Elionora, Rebeca, Lorena, Julia Cifuentes, Adhani Alba to name a few.
Burundi
With the help of JNP Coffee, the IWCA, and Burundi Friends International, these coffee producers are able to participate in classes that teach financial literacy, leadership skills, and English. Such resources help these producers to develop and grow their coffee production, improve their homes and farms, pay for children's education, build savings, and invest their money overall. Rooted in strong producer partnerships, these efforts empower the farmers and their families to build resilience and expand their coffee production capacity.
One of JNP Coffee's renowned initiatives is the Dushime program, their Second Payment Day. The JNP Coffee team visits the farmers before each harvest, providing cash incentives based on the previous harvest's quality and the global market response. The second payment serves as a significant motivator, encouraging farmers to prioritize quality control. They have recently achieved a milestone of collectively paying half a million dollars in second payments since inception.
TRACEABILITY
Guji, Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Guji
Importer: Red Fox
Producer: Several Smallholder Farmers
Processing: Natural + Washed
Altitude: 1800 - 2100 meters
Varietal: Ethiopia Landraces
Mill/Washing Station: Taro Washing Station
Price Transparency: $5.45 - Price paid by Driftaway; $1.93 - Coffee C-Market price per pound; $0.05 - Driftaway’s World Coffee Research contribution per pound.
Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Country: Guatemala
Region: Huehuetenango
Importer: Onyx
Producer: Ella Todos Santos Women Producer Group
Processing: Natural + Washed
Altitude: 1200 - 1950 meters
Varietal: Bourbon, Caturra, Catuaí, Pache, Yellow Pache
Mill/Washing Station: On the farms
Price Transparency: $0.05 - Driftaway’s World Coffee Research contribution per pound.
Ngozi, Burundi
Country: Burundi
Region: Ngozi
Importer: JNP
Producer: Turihamwe Turashobora Producer Group
Processing: Natural + Washed
Altitude: 1750 meters
Varietal: Heirloom Bourbon
Mill/Washing Station: Turihamwe wet mill
Price Transparency: $0.05 - Driftaway’s World Coffee Research contribution per pound.
Love the coffee? You can share your compliments & tasting observations with the farmers.
AVERAGE CUPPING SCORE
85
/100
85
SCAA Cupping Score
100% (in 2023)
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HOW DID WE ROAST THIS COFFEE?
This coffee is being roasted by Ian T. from Dec 1 - Dec 25 in Brooklyn. We use the Loring Kestrel roaster for this profile. We have strict guidelines for each of the coffee profiles, and this roast has to pass the development time ratio test as measured in real-time by the roasting software, Cropster. Once it does, it is approved for production.
QUALITY CONTROL
We perform Quality Control via a process of coffee tasting called cupping on all of our production roasts once a week at our roastery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Each cupping is conducted by Ian T., Anu M., and Suyog M. using standard equipment, and is logged by our Q-certified cupper Ian T. All coffees are evaluated on a scoring scale of 0 to 3.
- 3.0 = exceptional roast - exceeds expectations
- 2.5 = on par with profile - matches expectations
- 2.0 = good roast, but 1 or 2 elements could be improved - needs improvement
- 1.5 or lower = failed - do not ship
PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING
Less than 24 hours after roasting, we bag your coffee in our production facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Our production team is led by Torie, and supported by a rotating cast of local artists, musicians and independent professionals.
AT YOUR HOME
Brew this coffee with your favorite home brewer and enjoy the taste of incredible coffee! Here are a few tips on how to make the best coffee on each brewer.
View other posts about how to make better coffee at home on our blog Coffeecademy.