Guatemala Huehuetenango Silvestre Velasquez

This coffee is from a farmer named Silvestre Velasquez, whose 1.5 hectare farm, "Rancho Las Vegas", is perched in the high altitude zone of Huehuetenango. While most of our Huehuetenango coffees are from the North, Silvestre's farm is in the municipality of Tectitan, all the way down in the southern tip. Rancho Las Vegas is a 2000 meter farm planted in Bourbon, Catimor, and Caturra, which he picks and processes together. His wet process method involves fermenting the coffee seeds pulped of their fruit for 48 hours, during which time the sticky fruit mucilage is broken down and can be easily washed from the seed. The coffee is then moved to a cement patio where it is dries in the sun. We found Silvestre's coffees showed fruit tones in the brew, which bring a lively acidic impression to the light roasts.