Las Peñas Espresso

We came across Pedro’s coffee for the first time in 2021 through our Guatemala sourcing partners, Primavera. We loved how clean and transparent his coffee was and there was no doubt in our minds that this was a producer with whom we wanted to try and develop a long term relationship. Now in our fifth season of roasting Pedro’s coffee, we were fortunate enough to visit him for the first time last year at his farm in the renowned coffee growing region of Huehuetenango, where we witnessed first hand the precision and skill which results consistently in some of the cleanest and most elegant coffees that we taste each year.

This caturra lot is part of Primavera’s Arcoíris range: translated as ‘rainbow’, Arcoíris is a range of coffees which in their own words are dynamic, delicious and reveal a rainbow of flavour in the cup. After careful picking from the oldest plants at the highest altitude of the farm, this lot underwent a ‘double soak’ process: after pulping, the seeds were dry fermented for 48 hours in tanks, before being washed, rinsed and moved into a bath of fresh clean water to rest for a further 18 hours before finally being dried. This year, thanks to a combination of fantastic growing conditions in Huehuetenango and Pedro’s typically precise processing, Las Peñas is tasting better than ever.