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New single origin GUATEMALAMILDERVELÁSQUEZ By Intelligentsia Sourcing | October 24, 2024 New single origin GUATEMALAMILDERVELÁSQUEZ By Intelligentsia Sourcing | October 4, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Milder Velásquez In March 2024, we traveled to La Libertad and cupped freshly delivered lots at Coopesqui’s quality control lab. This particular lot was grown and processed by farmer and cooperative member Milder Velásquez. Selected in a blind cupping, this marks our first purchase of Milder’s coffee. Our regular visits to Coopesqui have deepened our relationship, giving us the chance...

New single origin KENYAKONYUAB By Intelligentsia Sourcing | September 11, 2024 New single origin KENYAKONYUAB By Intelligentsia Sourcing | Septem 11, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Distinct Kenyan coffees are some of the most expressive in the world. When thinking about factors that can affect the quality of a given coffee harvest, we often discuss soil, elevation, and rainfall, but the frequency of cherry picking and processing protocols are equally important to consider. In Kenya, cherries are picked 1-2 times per week during the harvest, unlike...

New single origin GUATEMALAFRANCISCOMARTÍNEZ By Intelligentsia Sourcing | August 28, 2024 New single origin GUATEMALAFRANCISCOMARTÍNEZ By Intelligentsia Sourcing | August 28, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Huehuetenango Pronounced way-way-teh-nan-go and often simply called Huehue, this remote, mountainous area is home to famed high-altitude coffee towns, celebrated for their complex, fruit-forward coffees. Nestled in valleys and clinging to mountains that rise from the winding roads leading to Mexico’s southern border, farms sit as high as 2,000 meters above sea level. The steep terrain makes harvesting, processing, and...

New single origin ETHIOPIA ALAKAWASHED By Intelligentsia Sourcing | Aug 30, 2024 New single origin ETHIOPIAALAKAWASHED By Intelligentsia Sourcing | August 30, 2024 New single origin COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON COLOMBIASTRIPED RED BOURBON By Intelligentsia Sourcing | January 26, 2024 The Variety Metad Within Ethiopia, we have yet to find anyone producing more flavorful coffees more consistently than the Adinew family operation, METAD. As operators of the first CQI-certified lab in Africa, the highly trained teams at METAD washing stations apply best-in-class quality control processes to create opportunities for thousands of smallholder coffee growers. We first partnered with METAD just over...

New single origin ETHIOPIA ALAKANATURAL By Intelligentsia Sourcing | Aug 30, 2024 The Variety Ethiopia As the birthplace of coffee, coffee isn’t merely well-adapted to Ethiopia’s terroir, it evolved in the understory of the majestic forests of what is today Ethiopia. It should come as no surprise, then, that the heirloom varieties still grown there produce flavors that can’t be found anywhere else on earth. Each region and subregion of Ethiopia has its own terroir, leading to a remarkable amount of diversity within the country when it comes to the flavor expression — from peach to strawberry to jasmine blossom,...