La Higuera Peru - Filter Coffee

It is our second year in a row the twe are buying this beautiful coffee from Peru and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

La Higuera is the combined efforts of 10-15 smallholder farmers who provided their coffees to Origin Coffee Lab, a Peruvian sourcing company helping our green coffee partner Nordic Approach find delicious coffee in northern Peru. As the average farm in the area contains around 2 hectares of coffee trees, the lots provided by farmers are combined together with coffees of similar quality from the locality to create larger volume lots.

Peru has most recently been associated with cheap organic and Fair Trade coffees, the reason Good Life haven’t had coffees from here before. The past few years, however, has seen the potential for great coffees come to be realised with farmers being rewarded for quality rather than just bulking their coffees together for the commodity markets. With perfect conditions for great coffee, the Andean country is one to watch in coming years as investments made in the infrastructure begin to pay off.

As with most South American producers, the farmers in Peru have their own depulpers so do all the processing themselves. Typically the depulped coffee will be stored in small concrete or wooden tanks for dry fermentation of around 24 hours. Once the mucilage has softened the parchment coffee is washed in clean water before being laid to dry, either using plastic sheeting on the ground or on flat rooftops. Some farmers have built raised beds, but generally they are rare in Peru. Drying takes between 12 and 25 days, weather dependent, before the farmers deliver their lots to a purchase point for Origin Coffee Lab.