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La Labor Y Anexo -Guatemala Cup of Excellence 2022

La Labor Y Anexo -Guatemala Cup of Excellence 2022

Finca La Labor has been in the Montenegro family since 1850, 100 year ago Francisco Montenegro Giron, our grandfather, planted the first coffees today you can still find some off the trees in the farm. In its beginnings Bourbon variety was planted and work for some time, today other varieties have been introduced, som geshas, The farm is at 1500 MSNM, with clay loam soil, with a lot of organic matter and the climate of the city makes our coffee have an exceptional profile and rich unique flavor. Finca La labor is one of the last coffee farms located in the capital of Guatemala City, in zone 18 being one of the last lungs of the northern area of the city. Today the farm is worked...
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El Injerto Pacamara, Guatemala

El Injerto Pacamara, Guatemala

Grown in the High lands of Huehue at 1740 masl in the southwest of the coffee plantation in the Pandora region. This variety was originated in El Salvador from crossing Maragogype and Pacas varieties, this is why it is a big bean although not as big as the Maragogype. It is handpicked by expert pickers during the month of February and March every year, El Injerto pacamara was soaked in spring water for 24 hours after being washed in clear spring water to refine its cup quality. Simply the best! Farm : El Injerto Cultivar : Pacamara Process : Washed Altitute  : 1740...
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KAROGOTO Wet Mill

KAROGOTO Wet Mill

Karogoto is a wet mill (also called a factory) situated near Karatina town in Nyeri, Kenya. It is one of four wet mills that are owned by the Tekangu farmers cooperative society. There are numerous wet mills in Nyeri, often just a few minutes' drive from one to another. The reason for this is that Nyeri is home to thousands of smallholder farmers that own on average 0,5 hectares of land where they typically grow coffee, maize, pasture, and other crops. A farmer typically will pick her/ his coffee cherries and sell them to the nearest wet mill that is within walking distance. The cherries get bulked together before they are processed and dried by the staff on a cooperative wet mill...
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KAROGOTO By Tim Wendelboe

KAROGOTO By Tim Wendelboe

We have our new Exotic Collection member from Oslo; Tim Wendelboe's KAROGOTO roast for the Baristatus family. Tim Wendelboe, a World Barista Champion (2005) and 8 times winner of the Nordic Roaster Championship (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2010, 2009, 2008) is famous for his iconic coffee roasting (and also brewing) skills as well as very well-known entrepreneur in the coffee industry.  The coffees from Karogoto are always super clean and have an intense fruity and floral flavor. This is most likely because most of the members/farmers are still growing the SL28 cultivar and have received a lot of agricultural training over the years. The climatic conditions also...
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The Pledge : Transparency in Coffee

The Pledge : Transparency in Coffee

  The Plage, a common code for transparency reporting in green coffee buying. Coffee is a business of pretty pictures and harsh realities. Roasters and coffee shops around the world depend upon farmers to produce the excellent beans that we love. Too often, however, producers reap too little of the profits that are being generated along the value chain. An increasing number of actors in the coffee industry have recognized that the only way to secure the production of great coffee is to increase its sustainability along the value chain. And ultimately sustainability in coffee production must start with producers earning a living income. If producers cannot make enough money...
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ROEST "Meet Fauske"

ROEST "Meet Fauske"

Our paths crossed with ROEST for the first time in 2018 at the Amsterdam World of Coffee Festival. OMG! Do you believe in love at first sight? :) Within the following years, ROEST never stood still. It has always progressed by putting new technologies on it. I also continued to follow ROEST frequently on the web, on Instagram, and at international events I attended. It's kind of a "stalking" situation. She said, "I will be in Germany," and I went there. She said she is coming to Dubai WOC during the pandemic days, I was there too. Even the ROEST team couldn't make it, we met at the distributors' booth and catch up.  We continued to meet...
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Colombia Gesha Passiflora

Colombia Gesha Passiflora

A new member of our excellence collection!; Colombia Gesha Passiflora! Colombia Gesha Passiflora is a unique competition series coffee with a 91.35 SCA cupping score. Outstanding quality comes from a very careful selection of the cherries aiming to accomplish fermented and complex flavors and bright acidities, selective recollection of ripe cherries at 23 Brix, taking good care of the temperature as well as natural drying processes. Semi-anaerobic double fermentation, first in cherries and with the fruit pulp for 72 hours and washed. The stabilization process after drying for natural is a very important part for which has 2 steps in a warehouse with music...
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Cypher Urban Roastery

Cypher Urban Roastery

Meet a great team, literally! Cypher Urban Roastery is a team that roasts coffee with great care and precision down to the minor details and maintains it at the highest level. I met with the team during Cup of Excellence Sensory Education Training (SET). I had heard of the quality a few times before and it was my first time at the roastery. What a great venue! Nothing was usual or ordinary!  For example, Victoria Arduino mills beside La Marzocco two-group machines in the lab they set up to give espresso training! Special Probat roasters with a cooling system designed by the team. Cupping rooms with an individual water system from MARCO, EK43 grinders, sample roasters from...
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Colombia El Paraiso Villa Rosita

Colombia El Paraiso Villa Rosita

Meet the coffee innovator; Diego Samuel Bermudez Tapia! Different than most of the farmers, Diego’s family wasn’t into the coffee business but as he said he was “adopted” by the coffee-growing industry. His passion for coffee met with his innovative personality and he found his own company INDESTEC (Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Caficultura) “Innovation and Technological Development for Coffee Growing” and since then offering award-winning coffees to the coffee industry. His own invention EcoEnigma offers a special technique for drying the beans in the most environmental way based on a principle of condensation. This Colombia...
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Friedhats

Friedhats

Lex Wenneker is an idealistic coffee lover, 2015, 2016, and 2018 Dutch Barista Champion, a finalist at the 2016 World Barista Championship, and a runner-up at the 2018 World Barista Championships. We met Lex at the 2018 World Coffee Championships in Amsterdam. He is both humble and a true professional. We've been pursuing collaboration with Lex since the first day the Baristatus brand started. Here is the day today! :)   We met with Lex and his business partner Dylan at the Friedhats roasting house in Amsterdam the first week of November. After a pleasant conversation and project details, we set to work to evaluate the available alternatives to decide on this...
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El Salvador Los Morales Natural Gesha

El Salvador Los Morales Natural Gesha

Thanks to our esteemed friends Lex Wenneker at Friedhats and Rodolfo Ruffatti Batlle at Productor Coffee, we have got our hands on a small amount of Gesha variety from Finca Los Morales! Los Morales, located in one of the greenest areas of El Salvador, in front of the Montecristo Cloud Forest in the region of Metapan, which is an up-and-coming coffee origin in El Salvador. This is where El Salvador meets Guatemala and Honduras. Owned by Milton Morales the farm is located in the Alotepeque mountain range at around 1800 masl. This coffee is a natural process. It has a round sweetness and juicy mouthfeel and it’s a fruit bowl of blackcurrant, peach, and lime. Recipe (Filter) Ground...
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Transparency

Transparency

As Baristatus, we adopt the transparent price policy that is expected to be the 4th wave in coffee all over the world. Those who follow closely know that although it is the only member of the Alliance for Coffee Excellence from Turkey and licensed from the Ministry of Agriculture and trademark certified coffee exporter,   Baristatus is not a business that started out with commercial concerns, it is the passion for coffee with purely amateur feelings to make the best coffees accessible to everyone.   We aim to supply the best coffee from the source and present it in a professional manner that will appeal not only to the tongue but also to the eye. Together with...
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William's Roastery

William's Roastery

William's Roastery was opened by William Zinneha in August 2019 as a boutique roasting house in Kalamış. In mid-2020, when the demand for this wonderful coffee exceeds the current capacity, William first moves his roasting house to a different location and transforms this pleasant place in Kalamış into a Coffee Shop concept. the most important factor in the intersection of the paths of Baristatus and Williams Roastery to serve a common goal; to offer you the best coffee in the best way. Right after the green bean supply contract for our Ethiopia Cup of Excellence coffee, William is one of the first names that come to mind when we think of a name that can roast this...
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Gemeda Elias Dube, Ethiophia

Gemeda Elias Dube, Ethiophia

Farm : Gemeda Elias Dube Varietal : Kurme Process : Natural Altitude : 1850- 2000 masl Owner : Ato Gemeda Town/City : Giradota Region : Shakiso, West Guji Roastery : Williams Roastery Roast Date : 29th Oct, 2021 (Final Batch) Harvest : 2020 Gemeda Elias Dube, 32, has been working on his father’s coffee land since he was 15 years old. When he reached 21 he started his coffee farm on 7 hectares of land given to him by his father. Currently, his land grew to 86 hectares. He produces and collects 1,340,000 kilograms of coffee annually...
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Frozen Cherry, Colombia

Frozen Cherry, Colombia

Farm:   Finca La Ventolera Varietal: Castillo Process: Natural with anaerobic - aerobic fermentation and frozen at -18°C (Acetic, malolactic) Altitude: 1920-2050 m.a.s.l. Owner: Felipe Trujillo Town/City: Giradota Region: Santa Bárbara, Antioquia Roastery: Karthik, Three Coffee (World Coffe Champ 2017) Roast Date: July, 3rd 2021 Harvest: 2020 Our new exploration on our journey! ; Frozen Cherry, Colombia by Felipe Trujillo! Felipe, our magician, asked himself a very critical question; how to creatively solve the drying bed capacity at a specialty coffee mill? The result; Frozen Cherry – a sweet and an extraordinary coffee! Once picked and washed, t...
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Ilomba, Tanzania By Single O

Ilomba, Tanzania By Single O

Farm:   Ilomba AB Varietal:   Kent/Typica/Bourbon (Grade AA) Process:   Fully Washed Altitude:   1796 to 1900 meters above sea level Owner:   Agricultural Marketing Cooperative Society Town/City:   Mbozi, Songwe Region:   Mbeya, Southern Tanzania Harvest:   2020 Baristatus’ 2nd special coffee & 1st batch of Exotic Collection; Ilomba, Tanzania Fully Washed & roasted by Single O, Sydney, Australia! This Ilomba Fully washed AB is produced by smallholder farmers who...
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Single O

Single O

I met Single O on my Sydney trip in October 2017. Australia, and the city of Sydney in particular, is a wonderful city with many different quality coffee roasters and cafes. It is full of wonderful addresses where quality coffees are roasted, knowledge is blended with skill, and that spoil your palate. I think Single O is a great brand that leads these special places. As always, I marked the most beautiful cafes and quality roasters in the city on the digital map. Single O, Grounds, Mecca, Pablo & Rusty's and more. Single O on Reservoir Street was one of the closest stops to my resident. Since I had read so many good things about them, I went to this spot first. Glad I...
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Guadalupe Zaju Barrel Aged - Mexico

Guadalupe Zaju Barrel Aged - Mexico

Farm:   Finca Guadelupe Zaju Varietal: Marsellesa & Hybrids (H16 and H18) Process: Barrel Aged Altitude: 900 to 1,400 meters above sea level Owner: Eduardo 'Teddy' Esteve Town/City: Toquian Grande & Pavencul, Soconusco Region Region: Chiapas Harvest: 2020 Teddy`s Message to Baristatus Family! Emirati Coffee`s Message to Baristatus Family! The first stop of the BARISTATUS explorers is the "Guadelupe Zaju" farm in Mexico. This month, we will be the guests of Teddy Esteve, owner of Guadelupe Zaju Farm. He is a name...
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