Coffee Description
We’ve received and tasted many samples from our exporter in Peru for this year and this Organic El Higo was our favorite. We hope you enjoy its complexity and notice subtle tasting notes of the fruit it’s named after: the Fig.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Caturra
Process
Washed
Elevation
1800 masl
Region
Other
About Rosa Merino Neira of Peru
Rosa is a third generation coffee farmer and has owned her farm for 10 years, where she also grows plantains, corn, and root vegetables. It’s evident that Sra Neira is proud of these two things: her farm and her family. Her future ambitions include enhancing her farm with new coffee varieties to improve the final cup and getting an education for her children. She chooses to grow coffee because of its profitability which allows her to provide for her family.
Peru
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.
