Coffee Description
This lot from Carlos Pola brings everything we love about naturally processed coffee. It shines with juicy strawberries, the tropical punch of passionfruit, and the sparkling nuance of muddled mint in a mojito. The fruit-forward notes of this coffee linger in its heavy body and
velvety mouthfeel. This is a phenomenal coffee that we are so excited to share!
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Other
Process
Natural
Elevation
1400 masl
Region
Apaneca
About Carlos Pola of El Salvador
Carlos Pola has been running the Pola family farms since 2012, and has been focusing on creating a more sustainable system of producing and processing coffee. Carlos focuses on Honey and Natural processed coffees to reduce water usage, while also planting nitrogen-fixing shade trees and propagating mycorrhiza fungi to facilitate nutrient
exchange between coffee trees and reduce the overall usage of pesticides and fertilizer.
Apaneca, El Salvador
Cat & Cloud
Based in the west coast beach town of Santa Cruz, CA, Cat & Cloud Coffee was started by long-time coffee professionals Chris Baca, Jared Truby, and Charles Jack. Chris and Jared hold five Top-5 finishes in the US Barista, Brewer's Cup, and Latte Art Competitions between them. Begun as a podcast and an online webstore in 2015, Cat & Cloud opened their first retail location September of 2016.
With a vision “To Change the Way the World Does Business,” they created and currently run the most-listened to/watched Coffee-related Podcast and YouTube channel in the US. Whether it’s previous work in Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan as part of TechnoServe's East Africa Coffee Initiative, making sure their team members are well taken care of and sending them to origin, to developing relationships with coffee producer partners based on repeatable quality scores, not the volatility of the C-market.
Working to be content creators, information sharers, and industry leaders, they strive “to learn, grow, and create a community that feels good to EVERYONE, not just to the few people at the top.”
