Description
THE CUP
Malt, raisins and vanilla mingle with milk chocolate and nougat notes. Medium milky body couples with sweet medium acidity. Citrus and vanilla aftertaste.
TASTING NOTES: Vanilla, malt, milk chocolate
ROAST DEGREE: Mild
VARIETY: Arabica
PRODUCER: Asociación Chajulense
RECOMMENDED BREWING METHOD
Drip
ABOUT THE COFFEE
This is a fair trade organic certified coffee produced by The Asociación Chajulense Va’l Vaq Qujol. Asociación Chajulense is located in the municipality of San Gaspar Chajul, in the region known as the "Ixil Triangle" in the department of Quiché in central Guatemala.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER
The Ixil Trangle was battered by violence during the 1970s and through the 1980s as the government mounted its response to guerilla activity in the region. It was in the 1980s that an Italian priest, Rosolino Bianchetti, arrived in Chajul to lead the local parish.
Under the tutelage of Bianchetti, who was promoting the principles of Liberation Theology, an initial cohort of 40 farmers founded the association in 1988. The organization gained legal status in 1990. Now it is comprised of over 1,300 farmers working in 56 communities in the Chajul, Nebaj, Cotzal, and Chiantla areas.
Since its inception, the primary objective of Asociación Chajulense has been to "promote a sustainable development model that is environmentally sound, economically feasible, and fair from a social point of view."
Coffee is the main crop for the communities in Ixil, where land holdings tend to be much smaller on average compared to the rest of Guatemala. The association focuses on developing its export capacity and establishing direct relationships with buyers and coffee roasters.
Chajulense exported its first bags of coffee at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, expanding opportunities through Fair Trade and organic certification obtained in the mid-2000s.
In 2006, Cooperative Coffees purchased one of the first Asociación Chajulense containers of fair trade and organic coffee shipped to the US market. Since then, we have purchased and roasted nearly two million pounds.
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