Tasting Notes: Prominent notes of sweet tangerines, with a creamy, smooth caramel finish. This coffee is delicious as a daily sipper, whether out of a pour-over or an automatic batch coffee maker. It also makes for a smooth, delightful single origin espresso.
 
Sourcing Notes: This coffee comes to the BOP by way of our friends at Cafe Kreyol, a coffee-importing company based out of Virginia that got its start working with farmers on the vanguard of Haiti's renascent specialty coffee scene. We like working with Cafe Kreyol because their work is transparently driven by a belief in the potential of coffee as a business to make a positive change in the communities of farmers. There is a story of growth and sustainability behind every one of their partnerships. In telling these stories and forging these partnerships, they seem to be honest about the inherent limitations of their impact as they operate within a larger capitalist system of incentive structures. They make tangible promises about investments in infrastructure that lead to sustainable wages; they avoid grand but empty rhetoric about completely tearing down systems of oppression. That combination of humanist ambition, transparency, and humility means a lot to us, and for that reason, as of now, we feel really good about partnering with Cafe Kreyol.
 
From the Importer: "Apolo is an indigenous region of Northern Bolivia that had never commercially grown or exported coffee, until they began working with Wildlife Conservation Society and Cafe Kreyol in order to create a model of ecological preservation, and economic sustainable income. Cafe Kreyol works directly with 5 indigenous communities of Apolo, that speak a form of Quechua that predates the Incas. The coffee from this region, with a very defined Tangerine acidity (when roasted light), chocolatey flavor, and sweet aroma, is quickly taking it’s place as one of the top coffees of Bolivia. One of the communities, Trinidad, is also known as our “cocaine for coffee” project. The producers of the Trinidad community, about 85% female, have transitioned totally from producing coca to coffee."
 
To learn more, check out Cafe Kreyol's write up in Roast Magazine.
 
Bean Variety: Castillo, Typica