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Guatemala T'xayalaj

Guatemala T'xayalaj

CHF 16.00
CHF 16.00
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The coffee we ship is usually roasted within the last two weeks.

This creamy coffee has notes of berries, a nougat-like sweetness and an intense chocolaty aroma. With milk, it almost reminds us of drinking a hot chocolate at times. Combined with the beautiful wild strawberry and raspberry notes, expect a wonderfully balanced and very sweet cup of coffee.

We have been buying this coffee for the last five years and roasted it both for filter and espresso before. While we optimize this roast for espresso brewing, we still very much like it brewed as a filter coffee as well.

Process: Washed
Varieties/Cultivars: Caturra, Catuai, Typica
Altitude: 1660-1725 masl, 15.7°N
Cup Profile: Milk Chocolate, Strawberry, Yogurt

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We paid an FOB price of $4.26/lb for this coffee, which is 213% of the Fairtrade minimum price. Find out what this means here.

T’xayalaj

Farm: T’xayalaj
Producer: Maria Perez Morales
Purchasing relationship: 5 years
Region: Aldea San Marcos, Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango
Altitude: 1660-1725 masl, 15.7°N

T'xayalaj is the name of the farm Maria Perez Morales and her husband Diego bought about fifteen years ago to grow coffee. Maria mostly runs the farm herself and with the support of her family. Her husband works abroad. However, their children have developed an interest in coffee as well and they care about their land. It's likely they will take over the farm one day.

Maria has learned a lot about producing coffee since she bought the farm and has gained valuable experience since. Thanks to her hard work and will, she was able to produce a high-quality specialty coffee for the last couple of years. The farm is very small, Maria produces between half a tonne and a tonne of green coffee per year. In recent years, we have managed to buy most of it.

Primavera Green Coffee

We have been buying coffees from Guatemala in collaboration with Primavera Coffee for six years. In fact, they have been among the first couple of companies we worked with to source coffee at all. A women-led company that is on the ground in Guatemala every day, Primavera works with a small-ish number of coffee producers with a focus on female producers. In 2025, we finally visited their facilities in Guatemala.

Their founder Nadine comes from a family with four generations of coffee growers in Guatemala, and she started Primavera to honor this legacy. By building and fostering relationships between roasters and producers, helping with logistics and financing and with their expertise, they facilitate a more direct and transparent trade, with sustainability at the forefront of everything they do. Thanks to transparent and traceable value chains, it is possible that producers are well-rewarded for their efforts and their enthusiasm.

Originally working exclusively with Guatemalan coffee producers, they expanded their operations to include new origins, featuring more coffees that represent their values of sustainability and outstanding quality

Brew Recommendation

20g in/42g out, aim for roughly 28 seconds
for a rich and sweet double espresso
grind on a medium grind setting in the light-roasted espresso range