Summer is here and demand remains incredibly high.

If you aren't continuing to see increases in sales, please reach out for some help.

This month's Partner Growth & Market Insight Meeting (formerly All Partner Meeting) is on June 26th at 09:00. Pacific time. 

Topics to include:

• Supply Chain Update
• Best Practice for Success in 2025 (using the Demand Survey results).
• Selling Wholesale:  How to start and knowing how it changes as your business grows.
• Q&A;  Feel free to forward pressing questions ahead of the meeting to be sure they are covered.

Q3 Coffee of the month list

• July - Sulawesi
• August - Rwanda 
• September - Burundi

July Coffee of the Month - Sulawesi

Region: North Tana Toraja

Grower: Cooperativa Koperasi Puspeta Luwu

Altitude: 1100-2000 masl

Soil: Volcanic Loam

Process: Wet hulled and sun dried

Roast Level:  Medium dark (just into the start of 2nd crack)

Notes.  Full Bodied, Low Acid, Complex profile of bakers chocolate, nutty.  Very smooth finish.

The Sulawesi growing region has a complex geography that includes humid low-land rice paddies flanked by thousand-foot rock walls capped in perpetual mist. Coffee is grown in this geographic wonderland at elevations that reach 2000 MASL, considered to be some of the highest growing elevations in all of Indonesia.  Much of the coffee is cultivated by members of the Torajan tribe, living in the central mountain region of the South Sulawesi province, who continue to maintain a traditional village lifestyle that includes houses that resemble boats.

Processing Details

Producers cultivate and harvest coffee on farms that average less than 3 acres and process coffee using their own micro-mills.  At these mills, each producer carefully sorts their harvested cherries, depulps, ferments overnight, slightly washes, and lays wet parchment out on patios to shed water.  Next the coffee takes a detour from the conventional path of processing in other origins, wherein, the wet coffee parchment is sold to the larger cooperative organization called Koperasi Puspeta Luwu. The cooperative moves the coffee to a larger centralized mill where the parchment is  removed while the coffee seed still has a high moisture content.  This wet-hulling process, called Giling Basah in the Indonesian language, leaves the coffee bean exposed while drying on patios to a moisture percentage acceptable for export and gives the bean its unique bluish color and the hallmark Indonesian profile.

Cooperative Details

Koperasi Puspeta Luwu has been partnering with local producer groups for nearly 40 years to overcome logistical challenges like rugged roads and lack of infrastructure.  Koperasi Puspeta Luwu provides logistics and milling facilities, which improves traceability and quality control throughout the post harvest process, as well as, the ability to swiftly bring the coffee to the international market, ensuring greater producer earnings from direct trade relationships.

Best sellers this month:

• 6BEAN
• Breakfast Blend
• Best Sellers Sample Set
• Single O sample Set
• Cowboy
• Cold Brew
• Blonde/Sweet Espresso
• Bali
• Colombia
• French (again skewed by a single top selling store - way to go!!)

Fulfillment Times:

• Drop ship line: 2-3 business days
• Bulk Orders: 2-3 business days

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you need help.

Email questions or to schedule a 1:1 ZOOM call

Summer is here and demand remains incredibly high.

If you aren't continuing to see increases in sales, please reach out for some help.

This month's Partner Growth & Market Insight Meeting (formerly All Partner Meeting) is on June 26th at 09:00. Pacific time. 

Topics to include:

• Supply Chain Update
• Best Practice for Success in 2025 (using the Demand Survey results).
• Selling Wholesale:  How to start and knowing how it changes as your business grows.
• Q&A;  Feel free to forward pressing questions ahead of the meeting to be sure they are covered.

Q3 Coffee of the month list

• July - Sulawesi
• August - Rwanda 
• September - Burundi

July Coffee of the Month - Sulawesi

Region: North Tana Toraja

Grower: Cooperativa Koperasi Puspeta Luwu

Altitude: 1100-2000 masl

Soil: Volcanic Loam

Process: Wet hulled and sun dried

Roast Level:  Medium dark (just into the start of 2nd crack)

Notes.  Full Bodied, Low Acid, Complex profile of bakers chocolate, nutty.  Very smooth finish.

The Sulawesi growing region has a complex geography that includes humid low-land rice paddies flanked by thousand-foot rock walls capped in perpetual mist. Coffee is grown in this geographic wonderland at elevations that reach 2000 MASL, considered to be some of the highest growing elevations in all of Indonesia.  Much of the coffee is cultivated by members of the Torajan tribe, living in the central mountain region of the South Sulawesi province, who continue to maintain a traditional village lifestyle that includes houses that resemble boats.

Processing Details

Producers cultivate and harvest coffee on farms that average less than 3 acres and process coffee using their own micro-mills.  At these mills, each producer carefully sorts their harvested cherries, depulps, ferments overnight, slightly washes, and lays wet parchment out on patios to shed water.  Next the coffee takes a detour from the conventional path of processing in other origins, wherein, the wet coffee parchment is sold to the larger cooperative organization called Koperasi Puspeta Luwu. The cooperative moves the coffee to a larger centralized mill where the parchment is  removed while the coffee seed still has a high moisture content.  This wet-hulling process, called Giling Basah in the Indonesian language, leaves the coffee bean exposed while drying on patios to a moisture percentage acceptable for export and gives the bean its unique bluish color and the hallmark Indonesian profile.

Cooperative Details

Koperasi Puspeta Luwu has been partnering with local producer groups for nearly 40 years to overcome logistical challenges like rugged roads and lack of infrastructure.  Koperasi Puspeta Luwu provides logistics and milling facilities, which improves traceability and quality control throughout the post harvest process, as well as, the ability to swiftly bring the coffee to the international market, ensuring greater producer earnings from direct trade relationships.

Best sellers this month:

• 6BEAN
• Breakfast Blend
• Best Sellers Sample Set
• Single O sample Set
• Cowboy
• Cold Brew
• Blonde/Sweet Espresso
• Bali
• Colombia
• French (again skewed by a single top selling store - way to go!!)

Fulfillment Times:

• Drop ship line: 2-3 business days
• Bulk Orders: 2-3 business days

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you need help.

Email questions or to schedule a 1:1 ZOOM call