Fazenda Quejna - Light - Guatemala
Odd Box’s first foray into Guatemala landed us at Finca Quejna. This delightful, clean and flavorful coffee from Nicolas Ramirez tickled our fancy for its apple-like acidity and vanilla notes. I enjoy this as straight espresso or filter drip.
Roast Level: Light
Process: Washed
Variety: Bourbon, Catimor, Caturra, Maragogype, Pache
Ratio:
Filter - 17:1
Espresso - 17g dose, 36g yield, 30-35s
Odd Box’s first foray into Guatemala landed us at Finca Quejna. This delightful, clean and flavorful coffee from Nicolas Ramirez tickled our fancy for its apple-like acidity and vanilla notes. I enjoy this as straight espresso or filter drip.
Roast Level: Light
Process: Washed
Variety: Bourbon, Catimor, Caturra, Maragogype, Pache
Ratio:
Filter - 17:1
Espresso - 17g dose, 36g yield, 30-35s
Odd Box’s first foray into Guatemala landed us at Finca Quejna. This delightful, clean and flavorful coffee from Nicolas Ramirez tickled our fancy for its apple-like acidity and vanilla notes. I enjoy this as straight espresso or filter drip.
Roast Level: Light
Process: Washed
Variety: Bourbon, Catimor, Caturra, Maragogype, Pache
Ratio:
Filter - 17:1
Espresso - 17g dose, 36g yield, 30-35s
Smallholder farmers make up the vast majority of Guatemala's coffee sector, and green buyers from my partners at Cafe Imports are constantly searching for exceptional small lots of farm-specific coffees to purchase. These are differentiated from other Guatemalan coffees as having both the highest quality and achieving the producers the highest prices.
Nicolás Ramirez Ramirez owns Finca Quejina, where he grows several varieties of coffee on land that has been in his family for many years. At first, it was a forest, but it has had coffee planted for a long time now. Coffee is the only crop grown for sale on Quejina. The coffee is picked ripe and depulped the same day, fermented for 18–24 hours, and then washed before being dried for 3.5–4.5 days, depending on the climate.
