Mexico Triunfo Verde & Guatemala Guerrera
Extra Bold Profile | Dark roast
Tasting Notes: Smoked Caramel, Oak & Dark Chocolate
IT ALL STARTS AT THE COFFEE FARM
This coffee is a blend of two amazing coffees:
TRIUNFO, MEXICO
Triunfo Verde is a cooperative of 447 small-scale producers in Jaltenango, Chiapas, cultivating specialty coffee under native shade trees within the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, one of the world's most diverse cloud forests. Coffee is grown in the reserve's buffer zone, where sustainable farming practices support both biodiversity and local communities. The cooperative emphasizes environmental education, agronomy training, and production financing to ensure coffee farming coexists with conservation efforts while fostering social and economic development.
GUERRERA, GUATEMALA
La Guerrera comes from Margarita Carmen Rodriguez and Sandy Fabiola de Leon, two women farmers growing coffee in Guatemala’s Quetzaltenango and El Progreso regions. Despite making up 70% of the global coffee workforce, women farmers often face limited access to land, credit, and resources. To highlight their work, our importer partner Caravela crafts La Guerrera each year from exceptional coffees grown by smallholder women farmers, ensuring they receive the recognition they deserve.
TRACEABILITY
TRIUNFO, MEXICO
Country: Mexico
Region: Chiapas
Importer: Azahar
Producer: 447 members of Triunfo Verde Cooperative
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1200 - 1500 meters
Mill/Washing Station: On farms
Did You Know: The members of Triunfo Verde hand picked the coffee cherries, removed the seeds from the fruit, then let the coffee undergo fermentation for 16 hours. The beans are then washed with clean water and are dried on patios for 5 days.
Price Transparency: $5.39 - Price paid by Driftaway; $4.8 - Free on Board price; $4.10 - Farm Gate price; $1.74- Fair Trade price per pound; $1.54 - Coffee C-Market price per pound; $0.05 - Driftaway’s World Coffee Research contribution per pound.
GUERRERA, GUATEMALA
Country: Guatemala
Region: Quetzaltenango & El Progreso
Importer: Caravela
Producer: Margarita Carmen Rodriguez & Sandy Fabiola de Leon
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1200 - 1500 meters
Mill/Washing Station: On the farms
Did You Know: In Spanish, guerrera means warrior, and Caravela chose the name for this coffee to represent the resiliency of coffee producing women in Guatemala.
Price Transparency: $3.92 - Price paid by Driftaway; $3.29 - Free on Board price; $2.68 - Farm Gate price; $2.03- Fair Trade price per pound; $1.83 - Coffee C-Market price per pound; $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
85.88
/100
85.88
SCAA Cupping Score
8 x 60 kg
Bags purchased
3 years
Length of producer relationship
100% (in 2023)
Transparent coffees purchased
HOW DID WE ROAST THIS COFFEE?
This coffee is being roasted by Ian T. from March 24 - April 17 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., Suyog M., and James 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 Anthony and 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.
