Coffee Description
This is our eighth year with Los Guacharos in our lineup. We love how reliably unique and delicious this coffee is. Each year, it wows us with bright, fruity, candy-like notes and a deeply sweet backbone. “Bubblegum” even made its way onto the tasting notes on our bag in previous years! This year’s lot continues to deliver with the quality, balance, and articulate fruitiness we’ve come to expect from this cooperative.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1600-1800 masl
Region
Huila
About Los Gucharos of Colombia
Los Guacharos are an association made up of many small farmers who all work together to achieve a common goal — producing amazing coffee while developing an eco-friendly independence.
The association has built an amazing system for generating community stock of organic fertilizers based on molasses, cow manure, bone ash, rice husk, organic micro-nutrients to which native fungi and bacteria are added. The group has nearly transitioned away entirely from chemical fertilizers, and doesn’t use any pesticides or herbicides
Huila, Colombia
Ruby Coffee Roasters
After years of leading the roasting and coffee sourcing programs of other notable roasters, Jared and Deanna Linzmeier moved back to Jared's hometown of Nelsonville, Wisconsin to build their own roastery. Because doing something great doesn't always mean doing something large, Ruby has opted to partner with small farms, small exporters and create small coffee bars, allowing them to have a much greater impact on the economic, environmental, social sustainability of specialty coffee.
This perspective has propelled a roasting operation, which began in a spare workshop room at Jared's childhood home, to being named Best Coffee in Wisconsin by Food and Wine two years in a row. Accolade aside, Ruby's real goal is a simple one: to source phenomenal quality coffee and make it approachable to everyone.
