About this Coffee
The towering mountains of western Guatemala are home to some of the most interesting and high-quality coffees in all of Latin America. Concepción Huista from the CODECH cooperative is one of those coffees. We focus our sourcing on a few community-based associations within CODECH known for good on-farm processing at high elevations. The resulting coffee pops with notes of cherry and apple, complemented by a creamy body.
Pronunciation: Con-SEP-see-ohn Haw-WEE-sta
The Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Desarrollo de Concepción Huista (CODECH) was founded in 2000 with the goal of coordinating the purchase and export of coffees from small producers in the communities surrounding the town of Concepción Huista. Like many cooperatives at that time, the group was only exporting full containers that were a blend of hundreds of producers’ coffees. In 2009, our import partner on this coffee, Atlas Coffee Importers, worked with the group to implement rigorous quality control measures, separating out higher-quality regional and single-farm lots to sell at a premium. We started working with CODECH the next year and have continued to buy across the co-op’s quality tiers. We source higher-volume blends for our Year Round products and pay premiums for exceptional single-farm lots to offer on our single-origin menu.
We believe in paying more.
Since 2009, we have published an annual transparency report to serve as a blueprint for our green coffee purchasing practices and a response to chronically low prices in the coffee industry. We believe paying more for green coffee is an important investment in the long-term viability of our coffee-growing partners’ businesses and our supply.