Coffee Description
Let’s give it up for women producers! This unique coffee with flavor notes of Cane Sugar, Honey, & Yellow Fruits comes to us from El Capricho, the farm of Teresa De Jesus Velazquez Boralles in Chiapas, Mexico. Chiapas is Mexico's southernmost state with ancient archaeological sites, rich biodiversity and gorgeous landscapes including tropical rainforests, lakes and mountains, and an active volcano. There are many different indigenous groups in this region who strive to keep their traditions, languages and folklore alive in the face of the government trying to dispossess communities of their land and principally benefit big business through tourism.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Medium
Variety
Typica
Process
Washed
Elevation
1664 masl
Region
Chiapas
About Teresa De Jesus Velazquez Boralles of Mexico
Farmers like Teresa are from remote areas, very marginalized, and have faced decades of lack of access to education, better prices, and opportunities. The economy of this region is based on cultivation of vegetables, animals, and of course, coffee. Our importers, Caravela Coffee, have done a lot of work with their farmer education program, PECA, in this area, providing resources, stability and infrastructure. For example, many of these farmers do not have cars or trucks to move the coffee. Without PECA’s help, they would not be able to sell produce in the specialty coffee market and end up in the commercial coffee market.
Chiapas, Mexico
Mad Priest Coffee
To curious people who are sick of the bland, corporate & “heretical” coffee experience, Mad Priest Coffee Roasters is the unconventional, creative, “sacred” coffee choice. While we may sometimes be irreverent, we always take our coffee and our mission seriously. That’s because we are mad about injustice, especially societal inequality...and bad coffee.
Mad Priest Coffee Roasters began in 2015 as a small-batch specialty coffee roasting company + a social enterprise with the mission to “craft excellent coffee, educate the curious, champion the displaced” and we currently operate our roastery and retail locations in Chattanooga, TN. From the beginning, our goal has been to run a sustainable, for-profit business with a triple bottom line that includes social and environmental goals alongside the economic ones. And most of all, we want to create the best product that wins awards -- and make that product accessible to curious people from every race and culture.
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