Deep'n Delicious Blend | Guatemala

Name: Deep'n Delicious Blend | Guatemala
Brand: PS Coffee
Price: 17.0 CAD
Availability: InStock

$17.00 CAD

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Antonieta & Carmen Donis' Washed Pache San Ramon¹
Las Minas, Mataquescuintla, Jalapa, Guatemala²

The best coffee isn’t always the most unique, but the one that keeps us coming back, time after time. It’s the coffee we like to call 'eminently chuggable'.

For us, that coffee is always produced by the small group of Indigenous Xinka farmers we work with in Guatemala. Not only are they fierce land defenders, protecting their traditional territories from the incursion of illegal mining, but they are also multi-generational coffee producers who had spent too many years selling their coffee for nothing.

Now, it’s our pleasure to feature the production of Antonieta & Carmen Donis, active members of the Xinka Resistance, as our mainstay blend - Deep’n Delicious. Its deep notes of chocolate, hazelnut and brown sugar make it the classic, approachable coffee that’s perfectly prepared as filter or espresso, but not if you want only one cup.

¹ Processing & Varietal

Washed Pache San Ramon

Cherries are collected and daily carried to a local wet mill called La Concepcion. The cherrries are depulped in an ecopulpler the same day before being left to dry ferment in tank or in plastic for 24-36 hours. The coffee is then dried for approximately 14 days on patios, before being stored in the mill’s warehouses until export.

² Region of Origin

Las Minas, Mataquescuintla, Jalapa, Guatemala
Farm: Sierra Santiago, 3 hectares
Altitude: 1900masl

P.S. Blends

Roasted to bring out an undeniable flavour expression, Apple Pie, Toasté, and Deep’n Delicious are straight to the point. That means no more scratching your head at obscure notes you can’t seem to recognize in your own cup. Just dependable, flavour-forward coffee that builds bridges between the cupping table and the coffee pot.

We Support

This

Buying from as many smallholder farmers of a community as possible to broaden our impact and deepen our commitment to them.

Not That

Buying only the top lots from a select few leaving them without consistent and reliable long-term support.

Meet the Producers Who Made This Coffee

Hermanas (Sisters) Carmen & Antonieta Donis

This edition of Deep’n Delicious features lots from hermanas (sisters in English) Carmen and Antonieta Donis. The sisters and their 5 siblings are the children of one of the oldest coffee-growing families in Mataquescuintla.

The Donis family, like all the coffee growers we work with in Guatemala, are members of Cafe Colis Resistencia. This group of generational coffee producers had spent too many years selling their coffee on the domestic market at prices commonly referred to as “regalando” or giving away coffee.

The Donis family has now committed to processing and selling part of their harvest in parchment as microlots. And now, with a renewed focus on quality, they continue to work towards increasing their yield year after year.

Our Commitment to Cafe Colis Resistencia

To make the incredibly challenging transition as a smallholder from a lifetime of selling in cherry to processing their own coffee is nothing short of amazing. The Donis family and other members of Cafe Colis Resistencia do this despite the persistent and ongoing challenges they face. Not only are coffee growers in Mataquescuintla left to fend for themselves within the monopolized coffee sector, but they are also fierce land defenders, protecting their traditional territories from the incursion of illegal mining. Carmen, Antonieta and their siblings lend aid by attending peaceful sit-ins at resistance encampments against the Escobal silver mine.

This makes it even more essential that we support this group the way we can — by being reliable buyers to as many producers from this group as possible. Every consumer or wholesale partner who buys, drinks, and enjoys their coffee is offering a huge lift to a community that has had little but themselves to rely on. In collaboration with Semilla, we are proud to stand beside this group as they wage their struggle, and we seek to do them justice in the ways they've asked — to tell their story and share their coffee.

Read Their Story

FAQ's

WHO MAKES P.S. COFFEE?

The P.S. Coffee menu is made possible by grower communities and smallholder farmers in Rwanda, Honduras, Colombia and Guatemala. Through our sourcing sister-company Semilla, we hold long-term and consensus based partnerships with producers that have had zero or limited access to or knowledge of the specialty market.

These skilled and passionate professionals are redefining coffee production within their growing regions that have historically been underserved and overlooked despite being within well-respected coffee producing countries. Through community support networks, access to knowledge and capital and investment into physical and intellectual infrastracture, they are transitioning towards autonomy and away from the exploitative model they’ve mostly always known.

These are the people and communities you’ll meet through P.S. — and build connections with as we continue to support and purchase from them year after year.

Meet the P.S. Producer Network

HOW IS P.S. COFFEE SOURCED?

All of the coffee on the P.S. menu is exclusively sourced with Semilla Coffee through the following principles:

Durable Relationships

All of Semilla’s relationships are formed with specific communities in underserved coffee growing regions within well-respected coffee production countries. Semilla identifies producer groups that have zero or limited access to or knowledge of the specialty market and takes on the requisite risk that comes with their transition into becoming specialty coffee producers with dedicated buyers across North America. Semilla’s commitment is to work only within the bounds of these groups, seeking to grow with them in pursuit of purchasing all of their production, year after year.

Best Prices, Defined by Producers

All coffees purchased by Semilla are purchased at the best locally available price. This is determined via communication with and understanding of local market dynamics, and prices are arrived upon via a consensus model in which the coffee growers and Semilla agree democratically on the best prices for all involved.

Traceability and Transparency

Semilla’s commitment is to work with complete commitment to traceability and transparency along the value chain. This means full transparency of prices paid to the farmer (farmgate) as well as prices paid at port (FOB). Additionally, Semilla offers in depth information and context for each coffee, the producers who grew it, and the condition within which they work with each purchase.

Quality

Semilla exclusively works in the specialty coffee realm, meaning all of the coffees purchase are above the quality levels offered by conventional commodity or Fair Trade and Organic buyers. Quality is determined in reference to the Specialty Coffee Association and Coffee Quality Institute’s grading standards, with all coffees source for P.S. achieving a minimum of 85 points out of a possible 100.

DO YOU HAVE THIRD-PARTY SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFICATION?

We are skeptic of most fair trade/organic/sustainability certifications. They often leave the financial burden on coffee producers who are, and let's be honest, not polluting anywhere near us folks in the Global North are.

Instead of focusing on these certification, we work towards a value system that uplifts everyone along the coffee supply chain. Through Semilla, our sourcing sister-company, we can connect directly with our coffee producer network to bring to life their ideas that come from, and work for, them towards a more sustainable, equitable value chain.

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