Altura Coffee Nicaragua Los Suyates anaerobic washed single origin coffee bag with black and coral label

Nicaragua Los Suyates Anaerobic Washed Single Origin Coffee Beans

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Don Mario Gonzalez turned pine plantation into coffee farms and never got around to clearing all the trees. That was deliberate. At Los Suyates the native shade stays put, the cherries ripen slow, and the picking crew comes back every harvest because he pays them properly. This lot is Paraneima, a rare one, fermented whole in sealed tanks for several days then washed clean in concrete channels. Now the fun part. We are tasting: Cascara, Raspberry, Cherry and Sweet. Delicate and lifted as filter, syrupy as espresso.

Coffee profile

Origin: Nicaragua
Region: El Volcán, Dipilto, Nueva Segovia
Farm: Los Suyates
Producer: Mario Gonzalez
Process: Anaerobic washed
Varietal: Paraneima
Altitude: 1,450-1,700 masl
Recipe: 22g in -40g out. 32 seconds. 94C

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Cascara

Raspberry

Cherry

Sweet

Nicaragua Single Origin Coffee

Processing Details:
o Picking of only red cherries
o Cherries are floated as part of the pulping process to separate low density cherries
o Cherries pulped and fermented in sealed tanks at the Los Suyates mill for several days
o After fermentation is complete coffee is washed in concrete channels to remove any remaining mucilage
o Coffee is then laid on raised beds until moisture reaches 10-12%
o Drying takes typically 12-15 days
o Beans are stored in parchment until milling for export

Coffee trees growing under tall native shade trees at Los Suyates farm, Dipilto, Nicaragua

Nicaragua Los Suyates: Don Mario Gonzalez & Bridazul

Don Mario Gonzalez started from scratch. Before 2006 this was timber country. When the logging laws changed, the family turned pine plantation into coffee farms - three of them now, across Nueva Segovia.

Walk Los Suyates and you notice what is not there. Coffee trees do not fill every corner. Don Mario keeps parts of the land wild on purpose, and the tall native shade holds the temperature down so the cherries take their time. In a warming climate that is not sentiment, it is strategy.

He also has a picking crew that comes back every harvest. That is rare. It happens because he pays them properly and they pick only ripe, which is the same reason the coffee is this clean.

Processing runs through Bridazul, the Nueva Segovia mill founded by Claudia Lovo and Tim Willems, whose full-time team is 80% local women. Bridazul open their tanks, drying beds and cupping room to producers who could never fund that gear alone.

Good land, fair pay, shared gear. The cup follows.