Whole Bean Coffee
[PA-PWUH • NOO • GIN-EE • KOON-JIN]
Process: Washed
Brown Sugar, Hot Cocoa, Cranberry
Juicy sweet, medium bodied cup. Hot cocoa & brown sugar sweetness with a cranberry acidity.
Sourced from various smallholder producers in PNG's Western Highlands. Coffees are delivered in cherry form by producers who own an average of 1.5 hectares of land, with about 2,500 coffee trees per hectare maximum.
12 oz bag of whole bean coffee
Process: Washed
dried cherry, red currant, malt
Roteps Wet Mill is a large scale wet mill, common for the PNG Western Highlands context. Very few wet mills operate high in the mountains where you find the homes and farms of the majority of smallholder coffee producers. The owner of Roteps, Paul, sends out a strong team of cherry collection agents and their trucks on a daily basis to collect from known smallholders and small estates within a 20 mile radius of the wet mill, which is located in Kuli, along the Highlands Highway east of the city of Mt. Hagen. As is common in PNG, a large, expansive drying field holds long tarps for drying, and the dry parchment is stored at a warehouse on site. The coffee is then sent for final milling into the town of Goroka before export out of the port of Lae. Premiums are paid to both agents and smallholders for premium ripe cherry, to reduce the number of lower grade lots he needs to dry separately. To keep ripe cherry from fermenting in the back the truck before milling, most trucks can only complete one or two routes up a single valley and back.
12 oz bag of whole bean coffee
Process: Washed
mango, raw sugar, orange
Estates have become less and less common in Papua New Guinea. Brian Leahy, the owner of Korgua Estate and Kuta Mill, decided to establish the estates on neutral ground so that coffee growers from rival tribes could bring their coffees to market without disruption.
Whole Bean Coffee
[PA-PWUH • NOO • GIN-EE • KOO-TUH • MIL]
Process: Washed
Rosemary, Fig Jam, Green Tea
Sweet yet savory. Green tea body, with notes of rosemary and fig jam.
This is a washed A-grade coffee comprised of harvests from multiple small plantations on the Kuta Ridge in the Waghi valley of Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands. The growing altitude is around 1,585 meters, and milling takes place at the Kuta Coffee Mill. Operating alongside a collaboration between traditional rivals, the Ulga and Kolga tribes, Kuta Mill pays bonuses to farmers who deliver quality cherries consistently.