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Today in Real People, Really Good Coffee we take a look at the scenes behind one of our micro lots of Specialty coffee. Urbano Taipe, Fundo Santa Maria.
Urbano is committed to producing high quality coffee & we’re pleased to be able to bring some to you…
Continue reading Real People, Really Good Coffee – Urbano Taipe, Fundo Santa Maria
There are lots of stories and photos to share, but internet has been an issue. Don’t despair, We’ll be back in civilization soon!
Update 8/2/15
We’re still in Villa Rica awaiting the final processing and shipping to Lima. All looks well for Wednesday (hopefully) and we should have a good (vs dialup speed) internet connection late this week. Meanwhile, I keep taking pictures, and gathering info for upcoming posts.
The coffee will be at our warehouse soon, and on its way to Peruvian customs and the US shortly thereafter. You’re going to love these coffees!
Thanks for your patience. It’s a challenge to be offline, but it’s true when we say, “We go direct to the farm, so you don’t have to!”
Here’s the final 2015 Coffee lineup:
It’s all happening right now! We’ll be traveling back to Villa Rica for the final peeling, cleaning, weighing & rebagging of the coffee for export this week. From there, it’s off to Lima and Customs before shipping to LA.
Curibamba – This is year three of the Curibamba Coffee Project, and we’re seeing wonderful results from the growers. We should end up with about 1,400 pounds. A bright acidity with light fruit & herbal overtones, plus a hint of nuts.
This is the coffee that launched our company – A Little Further South. Your purchase helps support small family farmers as we buy this coffee directly from the producers. More Than Fair Certified.
Continue reading Real People, Really Good Coffee Update July 2015
This post is about the second in a series of workshops for the growers in the Curibamba Coffee Project held June 27-28. For more info, see below for other links.
Prologue
After our visit to FInca El Dorado (see here,) we continued on to San Ramon. The day was late, and we barely made it before dark. Exhausted after so many days of traveling & all things coffee, we check into a new hostal to see how it will be. It’s priced right, and the internet seems to work, so we may have new digs for our trips to San Ramon. (Hostal Santa Domingo – S/.40 per night about $12.63 at this time.)
Continue reading Curibamba Coffee Workshops June 2015
A recent article in the New York Times by New York Times writer Julie Baumgardner features the Peruvian honeymoon of Helen Toomer and Eric Romano. The couple tasted exotic Peruvian cuisine, traveled the markets, and of course visited the iconic Machu Picchu.
We’re always pleased to see the growing interest in Peru. It really does offer spectacular scenery, wonderful culinary delights, and a culture that is refreshingly different.
From the New York Times:
Continue reading A Peruvian Adventure Honeymoon
It’s the time of year when cold drinks help quench your summer thirst (at least in the northern hemisphere!) While it may seem new, iced coffee has been around for quite a while: Via Roast Magazine:
Every summer, articles abound on the season’s latest cold drink trends. This year especially has seen an explosion of bottled cold-brew coffee products on shelves from coast to coast. Casual media outlets tend to react to a spike in any trend as though it manifests out of thin air, entirely by surprise, but there is good reason most packaged cold brew drinks today appear as though they’d be right at home on the shelves of 1960s grocery stores.
Continue reading Cold Brew Wasn’t Invented Yesterday, So Here’s Some Historical Perspective
Update 11/11/18 Recently we lost Horst Gehrmann. It was a shock to lose a fellow coffee lover, and the loss will be felt long. Reposted in Memorium: RIP Horst Gehrmann.
The Gehrmann family migrated to Villa Rica, Peru after the first World War. This part of Peru has many German and Italian immigrants that migrated here in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Continue reading Real People, Really Good Coffee – Finca El Dorado, Horst Gehrmann
The last week or so had been a series of trips to internet cafes & “locutorios” (where one can make phone calls.) In between the details of organizing a coffee buy, we did manage to enjoy one of favorite places in the world – Tarapoto.
It’s been somewhat frustrating to try and post on the blog. I picked up some malware in one café, and was afraid to log on and compromise the site.
Alas, duty calls and we’re off again (and off the computer again too.) We left Tarapoto in order to get to Villa Rica, and the Chacra D’dago to get some more samples and confirm our final order there, meet some new potential suppliers, and make our way to San Ramon for the second series of Curibamba Workshops this weekend. We’re also making arrangements for the distribution of solar coffee drying tents to the growers in the Curibamba Coffee Project.
It’s a two day journey via land, and there isn’t really any airport option short of flying back to Lima, and then flying to Jauja, which is still several hours to Villa Rica by bus or car. (As an afterthought – flying would have been worth it!) We’re finalizing our purchase of some wonderful coffees that we’ve tested, and visit with our friends, and make some new ones.
(For more on Tarapoto see here, for more on Chacra D’dago, see here.)
Here’s what it’s like to travel in Peru to the more remote provinces: Continue reading Tarapoto to Villa Rica – A Long Strange Coffee Trip (Part 1)
June is flying by, and we’re busy with all of the details of buying green coffee beans. Cupping coffee is the first step in deciding which coffees to purchase, which ones to pass for this year, while trying to encourage the growers to continue improving quality.
Continue reading Real People, Really Good Coffee Update June 2015
