Daily Blend: 50/50 Brazil / Guatemala

Our daily blend is a versatile, balanced and smooth coffee that is equally at home in your V60, cafetiere, espresso machine or your favourite stovetop. Perfect for your daily drink.

Tasting notes: Chocolate, Berries, Nuts & Toffee Apple

Origin: Brazil & Guatemala

Process: Natural & Fully washed

SCA Cupping Score: 83/84

The story:

Coffee changes with every season and harvest, and to make the most of that we have selected two regional coffees from Brazil and Guatemala. This allows us to consistently deliver great tasting coffee and allows the farmers in each region to know they have a steady market for their coffee.

Country: Brazil

Region: Nova Resende, Minas Gerais

Altitude: 1000 - 1250m

Varietals: Red Catuai, Yellow Catuai, Bourbon, Mundo Novo

Process: Natural

Nova Resende is a small town located in the south of Minas Gerais state. The area has relied on coffee farming historically for its development. Today, it is a large and welldeveloped rural area with interesting terroir, unique climatic conditions and fertile soils to grow high-quality coffee. The varietals used come from twenty smallholder producers in Nova Resende, each growing coffee on farms averaging just 7.5 hectares in size located in altitudes ranging from  1,000 to 1,250 meters above sea level.

Each contributing farmer has been selected through the Especialíssimo program, which was established in 2016 to give these smallholder producers more opportunities, bringing them closer to the speciality coffee market by delivering training courses, lectures and professional qualifications. Nova Resende is one of the municipalities with the most extensive participation in the Especialíssimo program. In September 2021, speciality coffees from more than 200 producers were identified in the region,
alongside the neighbouring city of Bom Jesus da Penha, and submitted through Nova Resende’s Cooxupé Center. From these producers, twenty were selected to provide the beans we use in our 'Daily Blend' due to their distinctive cup profiles.

Country: Guatemala 

Growers: Fedecocagua Cooperative

Altitude: 1100 - 1750m

Varietals: Pache, Caturra

Process: Fully Washed

Established in 1969, FEDECOCAGUA is a cooperative organisation with 20,000 members. Seventy percent of co-op members are members of indigenous groups from various regions of Guatemala, including Huehuetenango, Cobán, Verapaces, Retalhuleu, San Marcos, and Zacapa. The organisation is made up of over 150 individual co-operatives with an average smallholding size of 1.32 hectares that supply the coffee, and they are the main exporter of coffee from Guatemala.
Pache is a varietal best adapted to elevations above 1,200 meters and in regions with less than 2,500 millimeters of rainfall per year areas. The variety was discovered in 1949 in Guatemala on the Brito farm in Santa Cruz Naranjo, Santa Rosa, and is a mutation of the Typica family. It is a dwarf size, the same as Caturra, which allows for easier picking and denser planting, though Caturra has its origins in the Catimor branch of varietals,
stemming from the cross between Hybrido de Timor and Caturra.