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The Golden Lamp
The Golden Lamp
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Rub the lamp and it grants your deepest desire. Your guiding light, the cup that cuts through the dark, always sweet and always rich, brewed in the garden of apple trees, caramel dipped.
Enjoy as espresso or pour over.
ARMANDO QUINTEROS
Smallholder Spotlight
Armando, like all of the growers in this zone, manage incredibly small plots and claim all of their earnings through the sole income source of coffee. Armando’s farm is a mere 1.4 hectares with around 6,000 plants, meaning that his annual production at the absolute maximum of production is around 15 exportable bags. In the first two years we worked with him,, given the age of the trees and the relatively low productivity at this altitude, he and many others didn’t and continue to not see optimal yields from their farms. 2024 was an overall high year in Jalapa and we were very happy to achieve the highest purchase volume yet from Armando, his whole harvest clocking in at 16 exportable bags.
Technical Specs
Variety
Pache San Ramon and Catuai
Process
Washed
Processing details: Cherries are picked at peak ripeness and then moved to the communal beneficio in El Volcancito. Here, they are floated, and the remaining cherries are stored in sealed plastic bags in the shade for 48 hours. The cherries are then depulped and left to dry ferment, again in sealed plastic bags, for another 40 hours. Once rinsed, the coffee is dried on raised beds for 15-17 days. Parchment is stored in a dry warehouse, sealed in plastic bags until milling.
Farm Details
Farm: El Matazano
Farm size: 1.4 hectares
Location: El Volcancito Casillas, Nueva Santa Rosa
Altitude: 1750 masl
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Farmgate Price
1850 Quetzal/quintal parchment coffee
The local reference farmgate price 2024: 1200 Quetzal/quintal parchment coffee
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Freight on Board (FOB) Cost
$3.76 USD
per lb of green coffee
HUMURE STRATTON NZARAMBA
Smallholder Spotlight
Stratton Nzaramba is the formidable manager of Humure washing station, one of the largest volume stations in the Baho network, capable of processing 100 tons of green coffee per year. When Emmanuel first began with Humure, he believed that it would never be able to produce very high-quality coffee due to the arid climate and flatter topography than the storied Western and Southern provinces. Nevertheless, we have been buying Humure coffees for four years now, and always find an incredible quality, especially in the case of the naturals. This is in no small part due of course to the efforts of Stratton and his team who manage each step of the process and in so doing, create impeccable lots.
Technical Specs
Variety
Red Bourbon
Process
Washed
Farm Details
Washing Station: Humure
Location: Remera Sector, Gatsibo District, Eastern Province
Harvest: March - June 2024
Farm Altitudes: 1550-1835masl
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Farmgate Price
720 RWF/kilogram
The national farmgate price in 2024: 480 Rwanda Francs per kilogram cherry
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Freight on Board (FOB) Cost
$3.06 USD
per lb of green coffee