Stealth - Blend

Minas Gerais Brazil

This coffee comes to us from Cereza Coffee - an independent green coffee importer that specifically partners with the Minasul cooperative to source high-quality specialty coffee lots. Rather than treating Brazilian coffee as a bulk commodity, Cereza Coffee uses this origin to challenge the historic stigma of lower-quality commercial coffee by focusing on traceability, consistency, and premium flavor profiles.

• Minasul is a highly respected cooperative based in Varginha, Minas Gerais. This partnership bypasses massive legacy trade houses to ensure local integration and stable income for the actual growers

Ixlama

Ixlama is a shade-grown coffee, near the Guatemalan - Mexico border, that is harvested and brought to mill at Caserio Teogal Aldea San Martin, located near the town of Todos Santos. It comes to us via Balzac Brothers, a local importer, who has forged a 50 year partnership with the receiving mill who processes this coffee for the 120 family producers of San Pedro Necta and La Libertad. The mill is known for their meticulously processed coffees preserving cup quality, and consistency year over year.

Many producers here are Mayan, speak one of the seven local languages, and work on their farms dressed in the colorful, hand-loomed textiles associated with their individual communities — a tradition that contributes to Guatemala's rich culture and to unique identity of this coffee-growing region.

How do I say Ixlama? in Mayan words, the "x" before a consonant is pronounced with a "sh" sound:"Ish-la-ma"