Las Brumas, Washed

At the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range, Las Brumas is totally different from any other coffee farm we've ever seen. At Las Brumas, Ernesto is doing a Wild Forest Coffee.  Imagine how coffee was (and is to a tiny extent) grown in the wild, in Ethiopia and in Yemen. This is what has inspired Ernesto Menendez to plant coffee plants in the natural forest in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Mountain Range in Santa Ana, El Salvador. The coffee plants are spread out in the wild and are treated as a part of nature. The coffee is growing very slowly, and the crop is fairly small, but not surprisingly, it has a depth of flavours, and the coffee comes out very complex. 

We've began working with Ernesto in 2015, and have been buying the coffee from his farms Las Brumas and Los Andes ever since. It was a relationship that started purely based on geekiness in how to create a really high-end cup of coffee. Ernesto is a great producer who constantly cups and improves his methods of growing and processing, something that makes working together really fun, and he has a theory behind every decision in how this coffee was produced.

Ernesto has won the Cup of Excellence several times, and the coffee from Las Brumas has also previously won the World Barista Championship.