Classic: La Britanna
Chocolate · Honey · Brown Sugar
About This Coffee
Variety: Catuai, Caturra, Catisic
Processing: Washed
Origin: Fraijanes, Guatemala
Producers: Juventino Miron
Altitude: 1340-1520m
This delicious and chocolatey coffee comes to us from the La Britanna farm in Fraijanes, Guatemala. Fraijanes isn't too far south of Guatemala City - near the border with the Santa Rosa department - but its tall hills and dense forests are perfect terrain for growing excellent coffee. La Britanna's owner Juventino Miron inherited the farm from the Zamora family, and he now produces a mix of several coffee varietals including Catuai, Caturra, and Catisic plants under the shade of banana and gravilea trees. He has over 40 hectares of land in production at present yielding about 500 bags of green coffee each season, which is a sizable operation for coffees that taste this good!
What we love about this coffee is how dense the profile is - notes of chocolate, honey, and brown sugar all intermixed gave us the distinct impression of a fresh-baked cookie when we first cupped this lot. That rich, structured sweetness is really enjoyable and easy to drink. If you have some sort of batch brewing option at home you might want to break it out so you can have plenty of this coffee on-hand, it's hard to stop sipping. Cheers!
Reviews
What Our Members Say
Oh Yeah
So good I forgot to save some for my wife. Very smooth, no bitterness, and a lot of chocolate and sweetness. Sometimes I have a hard time tasting the tasting notes on the card but not this coffe...
Tim McCarthy
Mouthwatering and delicious
The rare coffee that my wife enjoyed the smell of. The brown sugar and cocoa are really pronounced. It’s a delightful aroma. Equally important (and of course, related) is the fabulous flavor. Cream...
Rob Brayer
Not for me
I did not care for this one, did not get the chocolate flavor notes, and the sweetness was combined with other flavors I did not care for. Drinkable, but not appealing for me.
Charles Archer
Delicious but mislabeled
This is a great roast with an enticing nose and nice chocolate flavor notes. However, it's lacking a robustness and punch that I would expect from a "Classic" roast. La Brittana, while delicious, i...
Ethan R
Really good coffee
Very tasty coffee. Satisfying and smooth. The whole pot gets finished whereas with others we may waste some.
Chuck Fisher