Direct-to-consumer Coffee from Costa Rica
Single Origin Coffee
- Single Origin: Costa Rica Volcanic
- Single Estate: Café Las Peñas
- Elevation: 1200-1350 meter volcanic elevation
- Macrolot: Central Valley
- Microlot: 14 Arabica coffee varietals
- Nanolots: Geisha and D'tiopía
III Generation
Family Coffee Farm
Three generations ago a Costa Rican family claimed a tract of unexplored land atop a faceted escarpment projected off the side of an active volcano.
After clearing the original dense jungle many years ago, the Chacón family settled and began to produce coffee cherries from the generous volcanic soils on their family farm.
Biodiversity through Agroforestry
Las Peñas coffee trees share the farm’s volcanic earth with papaya, guavas, citrus, and bananas. The sky is shared with larger Mango, Cedar, Inga, and Pink Shower trees, among others. Our plantation is outlined with orchids, lilies, heliconias, and jazmin.
Woodpeckers, robins, and toucans are three of the many bird species at Las Peñas that share the land with us.
A diverse ecosystem provides our coffee farm with rich soil, pollinators, and pest-control fauna for many of its coffee varietals, like Geisha, Pacamara, San Isidro, & Vic 14.
"Our 2021 coffee harvest has just come out of its parchment."
– Herberth Chacón,
3rd Generation Coffee Grower
in Costa Rica.
PARCHMENT COFFEE is the state of the coffee seed after the cheery it came from has been pulped away of its skin, mucilage, and most of its moisture. Pergamino is another word for parchment coffee.
In the order of things, parchment coffee comes before the green bean; the green bean is what roasters love to roast.
Pergamino acts like a protective bubble that provides an airtight space for the green bean to stabilize after it has been picked, pulped, and dried to 11.5% moisture.
Las Peñas Coffee Mill provides its parchment coffee a safe space for 3 to 4 months so it can take care of its little green bean until it’s ready to lose the Pergamino; which is usually around April or May every harvest year. Now that’s fresh!
Fresh Coffee Every Time
For months now the green coffee bean has been isolated, curing inside a natural protective shell, known as parchment, that shields the valuable green coffee bean until it’s ready for roast. Parchment will be the last layer removed from the coffee berry prior to roasting.
That’s right, what you roast is not a bean but what is left of a seed from a ripe cherry that has been hand picked off an arabica coffee tree (Coffea arabica).
When you order Las Peñas Coffee, straight from the farm, its fresh every time.