Coffee Description
Descriptors just keep piling up for this juicy coffee. For starters, aromas include blackberry, chocolate, and baked apricot. Flavor notes of blueberry muffin cuddle up to fruit leather, cascara, and sweet grain, while acidity is clean, and body is velvety with a tea-like mouthfeel.
Roast Level from the Roaster
Refers to the roast level in comparison with other coffees from the roaster
Light/Medium
Variety
Typica
Process
Natural
Elevation
1300 masl
Region
Matagalpa
About Bayardo Reyes of Nicaragua
Finca San Jose de las Nubes (Farm San Jose of the Clouds) hugs the hillside in a land of mountains and rivers and forests.There in the shade of plantain trees and cloud forest mists, 3rd-generation coffee farmer, Bayardo Reyes, grows his coffee near his family’s original farm.
For Bayardo, quality coffee is not an end in itself. “I wanted to help people around there grow coffee and show them what I learned from my dad and granddad,” Bayardo said. While his vision is to produce high-quality, specialty-grade coffee—which he does—Reyes, a civil engineer and major in the U.S. Army, works with an agronomist and his mother to create not just great coffee but also socially responsible and sustainable practices. “The whole thing was never about coffee,” said Bayardo. “It was about helping people, and the coffee made it possible.”
Matagalpa, Nicaragua
Nossa Familia Coffee
Frustration and pride may seem like strange bedfellows, but when Brazilian-born Augusto Carvalho Dias Carneiro (bottom left in the team photo) became disillusioned with engineering, his thoughts and heart turned to his family’s award-winning coffee farms in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil, where he grew up and his family has grown coffee for over a hundred years.
Nossa Familia, "Our Family" was born in 2004 as a way to share his family coffee with Portland. At first, Nossa partnered with a local Portland roaster and built up a loyal following, then opened their own roastery in 2012 and an Espresso Bar in 2013. Nossa Familia recently became Oregon's first certified B Corp roaster, earning a certification that recognizes the hard work and love that roots this family business.
