Organic Guatemala Huehuetenango

Hailing from the isolated western region of Huehuetenango, this coffee was grown by the members of Association of Special Coffee Producers of Huehuetenango (ASOPCE). Royal has the following to say about the spectacularly rugged area and the coffee it produces: “There are plenty of obstacles to cultivating and exporting coffee from the department of Huehuetenango. The terrain is rugged, and the weather is extreme. But coffee grows well here, and more than 450 families with farms that average just a few acres in size work together through a cooperative called the Association of Special Coffee Producers of Huehuetenango (ASOPCE) to overcome the obstacles. Each family uses their own micro-mill to process their harvest, which allows for meticulous care in cherry selection, depulping, fermenting, and drying the coffee. ASOPCE has a centralized warehouse to store dried parchment until it is time to move the coffee across the country along rough roads to Guatemala City where the coffee is prep