Peru Obsessive Llama – coffee for espresso and moka pot

Do you know the best way to set your espresso machine?

If you're using a home coffee machine (with grinder builtin), set it to the highest temperature, the instruction manual that comes with the equipment will help you. Set your grinder to the finest grind possible, at which the machine can brew a reasonable amount of coffee - 30-45 ml. Remember to adjust the coarseness of grinding when the grinder is running, as it is easy to damage the ceramic discs (filaments).

Why is a roaster the best source of coffee?

Roastains roastery is a small coffee producer, but it's in the small ones that there is strength! We bring our green coffee beans directly to the roaster to roast fresh coffee every day - a guarantee of specialty quality. The most important thing for us are the arabicas you will find in our store.

Our customers have come to love the coffees we offer them. We know this thanks to reviews and private messages about our beans. Invite coffee from Roastains into your home!

Obsessive Llama Peru coffee - learn more about coffee from Central America

Facts

• Origin: Chanchamayo, Peru
• Producer: Negrisa
• Farmer: smallholders from Villa Rica, Pichanaki and Satipo
• Altitude: 1500 – 1700 m.a.s.l.
• Specie: Coffea arabica
• Varietal: Typica
• Processing methos: wet (washed)
• The year of the harvest: the latest
• Quality: specialty, 84 cupping points 

How coffee is grown in Peru?

The country stands in the shadow of the manufacturing powerhouses of Colombia and Brazil. While Brazil has its famous productivity and Colombia has an efficient infrastructure for the specialty coffee sector, Peru is smaller, more economical and still invisible. However, the history, landscape and increasing quality of the beans grown there are reasons to disenchant this stereotype, especially in relation to the product from Chanchamayo.

The country held its first Cup of Excellence competition in 2017, and the latest one just took place in October in Jaén, a city in the northwest that is relatively close to the border with Ecuador. Of the 21 farms that won the CoE. Fans of dessert flavors will also find a taste of cocoa and chocolate in these coffees.

Chanchamayo - the region where Peru Obsessive Llama is grown

In Chanchamayo, coffees are grown in the hills of the valley, in the high Andes at altitudes of more than 1,350 meters above sea level. The region is located about 320 kilometers from Lima and it grows coffees that are gaining great popularity through their exquisite taste.

Coffee production in Chanchamayo accounts for as much as 40% of Peru's total coffee harvest. There are mainly cooperatives here, which bring together many, small farms that grow coffee. On average, one farmer produces less than a ton of coffee per year. Arabica beans grown in Chanchamayo include (generally) Caturra, Typica, Pache and Bourbon varieties. Typically, harvest time in Peru is from June to mid-September, and the coffee is delivered to mills, which mainly use a "washing" process to prepare the coffee for sale and export.

Negrisa - coffee producer

Negrisa is a family-owned company engaged in the processing, quality control and export of its own coffee. With more than 15 years of experience, they supply coffees of exceptional quality and great taste to global markets.

Negrisa is a processing station and is also involved in the cultivation, quality control and export of coffees. The producer brings together farmers who grow coffee on the slopes of the valleys in Villa Rica, Pichanaki, Satipo. Negrisa provides them with support in the form of seedlings, processing stations but also constant access to trade and sale of green beans after harvesting.  

Organic coffee cultivation

The vast majority of growers in the Chanchamayo region grow organic coffee, avoiding artificial fertilizers and pesticides and instead using biodiversity and growing under the shade of native trees, which has a positive impact on the environment and coffee quality.

This kind of attention and concern for the environment are just some of the things Peru deserves more credit for: nationally, more than 30 percent of its coffee plantations are certified organic, making it the world's second-largest eco producer. There are also strong ties between producers thanks to a large number of cooperative associations. This is an advantage the country has over its neighbors.

What does the SHG designation provide?

Peru Obsessive Llama SHG. The designation SHG (Strictly High Grown) or SHB (Strictly Hard Bean) - both terms are equivalent. They refer to coffees growing above 1,200 meters above sea level.

"Stress" for plants growing at higher altitudes means that the bush must develop longer roots to reap more benefits and reach deeper into the soil. Deep, fertile soil holds nutrients and more valuable mineral salts. For more on SHG on grain evaluation criteria, read our blog article.

Processing - this is how green coffee beans are made

In contrast to natural processing, which will find low acidity, washed processing provides crisp and clean tasting, fruity notes and higher acidity. It is the most commonly used processing in specialty segment coffees. Check out how coffee is made from washed processing.