Howdy coffee friends! It's May and we're back with another Bright Lights Little City.
As you're reading this, head roaster Josh and I will have just returned from the Specialty Coffee Expo in Portland; plus we're gearing up for another exciting season of coffee quality competitions, where we'll get a chance to cup, evaluate, and bid on some of the best and rarest coffees in the world. You can read more about the Expo and the upcoming competitions on our blog, and if you're interested in tasting these award-winning coffees for yourself, stay tuned. We'll be hosting some special cuppings at the roastery in the coming months and will make sure you, our loyal subscribers, are the first to know about them.
Now, on to May's featured coffees… | | Featured Microlot: Guatemala La Cumbre May's featured microlot comes to us from farmer and agronomist Rosendo Domingo, a second-generation coffee producer in the Huehuetenango region of northern Guatemala.
Though his mother passed away a few years ago and his father is semi-retired, coffee production for the Domingos is still very much a family affair. Rosendo primarily handles the field work (planting, harvesting, crop management, etc.) and the marketing and sales of the final product while his three sisters oversee the post-harvest washing and drying of the coffees at their home in the town of Petatán.
Each sister is responsible for processing the coffees of a different parcela, or plot, including Lupe, who handles the coffees arriving from their highest parcela, the origin of our featured microlot, La Cumbre. | | "La Cumbre" translates to "The Summit," so named because it occupies the highest point near the town of Petatán. The coffees from La Cumbre are typically Rosendo's last to be harvested each year due to cooler temperatures and slower ripening of the fruit. This slow maturation allows for the coffees to develop more sweetness and complexity, and when picked at their peak they can provide the groundwork for creating magic in the final cup... [read more] | | Roaster's Choice: Republic Dark Roast Our motto at Little City is, "Everyone deserves a great cup of coffee." Through our QC program and strict purchasing and production standards, we work hard to make sure we can stand behind our coffee's objective "greatness," but another element to providing great coffee for all is making sure we have a wide range of profiles to please a wide range of subjective preferences.
So if you had an opportunity to try last month's feature, Violet Crown, and are looking for something completely different, allow me to present this month's counterpoint, Republic Dark Roast… [read more] | | | As a reminder, you can purchase our featured coffees à la carte or as part of our Roaster's Choice and Microlot Subscriptions. Plus, as a subscriber, you get a special discount on our featured coffees each month. Take 10% off May's features by using the code below: | |  | | Offer valid 5/1 – 5/31 for La Cumbre and Republic only. | | | | |
