Name: Sumatra Suku Batak
Brand: Klatch Coffee
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This coffee was grown on the La Montaña Lot, Las Mercedes always provides us with a complex and balanced coffee. This washed cupping SL28 offers caramel compliments well with a medium tangy body of orange citrus and finishes with stone fruit of peach.


What drew Klatch Coffee to Las Mercedes was great coffee, but what we fell in love with was the people, the process, and their passion to make the coffee so great. It begins with hand picking only ripe mature cherries, and then subjecting them to intense screening before depulping to eliminate twigs, leaves, and other foreign material. At the wet mill, the cherries are received into ceramic tiled ditches, washed with fresh collected rainwater from their own tanks and immediately fed into a pulper, which consists of rotating disks or cylinders, each one fitted with adjustable knives. These are designed to separate the bean from the flesh of the fruit while leaving each bean intact in its parchment envelope. They then dry the coffee on clay patios to ensure even drying.

The same care and consideration invested in the coffee is invested into the Las Mercedes community. The Ortiz Family has always been devoted to taking care of those who have helped in their success, by providing clothing, food, and healthcare. In addition, Las Mercedes is constantly making efforts to preserve natural wild life by taking special care of the disposal of by-products from the mill in order to avoid contamination also, in compliance with our certifications, chemicals and pesticides are carefully stored and managed by trained personnel, avoiding intoxication and contamination. In the last years, a great effort has been made in planting native trees to preserve these species.

Finca Las Mercedes is a beautiful coffee farm with dedicated owners who care for their community, their workers, the environment and, nonetheless, seek to provided specialty coffee. We are proud to offer this limited Direct Trade coffee that is also Rainforest Alliance Certified. As part of our Direct Trade contract, 25 cents of every pound is given back to fund community sports programs and Los Ortiz medical clinic. To read more about Los Ortiz medical clinic please visit: 

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caramel compliments well with a medium tangy body of orange citrus and finishes with stone fruit of peach.

El Salvador Las Mercedes La Montaña SL28

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Our Decaf Colombia Cauca EA is back giving you a cup of chocolate cookie, Tangerine, and herbal finishing.

Descafecol is the only decaffeination plant in the Andean region of Colombia. The plant relies entirely on the pure water from the Navado el Ruis (a snow-capped volcano on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima) and natural ethyl acetate from sugar cane plants in Palmira, Colombia. Ethyl acetate is an organic compound (C4H8O2) with a sweet smell—it’s created during fermentation and contributes to what’s often described as the “fruitiness” in a young wine. At Descafecol, the decaffeination process begins with steaming the green coffee at a very low pressure to remove the silver skins. The beans are then moistened with hot water, which causes them to swell and soften and begins the hydrolysis of the caffeine, which is bonded to salts of chlorogenic acid. (Hydrolysis refers water interacting with a compound and causing it to loosen from other particles.)

The ethyl acetate solvent is then circulated through the beans multiple times until at least 97 percent of the caffeine is removed. A low-pressure, saturated steam is then applied to remove any last traces of the ethyl acetate, and finally the coffee is vacuum-dried in drums to remove any water and bring the final moisture level to between 10 and 12 percent.


The coffee is cooled to ambient temperature with fans and then polished with carnauba wax to protect it against humidity. From the Trilladora Andes Mill The Centra Cooperativa Indígena del Cauca was founded in 1980 by indigenous producers from Cauca, Colombia. Since 2006, they have worked with Fair Trade–certified coffees to help address income inequality in the area. The co-op also supports activities such as alternating crops, housing planning and alternative energies. Membership consists of 2,373 producers from the regions of Toribio, Caldono, Santander de Quilichao, Corinto, Morales and Tambo. The harvest season was from April–July. At the Trilladora Andes mill, this coffee was machine pulped, fermented for 6 to 8 hours, rinsed and then dried on a patio for 12 hours and in a dryer for 6 hours.


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Decaf Colombia Cauca EA

We are excited to release this wonderful and complex coffee featuring all of the best from Guatemala in one cup: flavor notes of nectarine, chocolate and with a white peach finish. Also undertones of lemon and sweet herb.



Guatemala Huehuetenango Pioneers is a coffee born out of partnerships. The coffee is produced by approximately 450 members of Comal and Asdeflor Cooperatives in La Democracia Comal. Recognizing excellence in quality and in the communities that produce it, exporter UNEX chose this coffee for a collaboration between their Farmer Aid social platform and the nonprofit Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS).

This exceptional coffee grows between 1200 and 1650 meters above sea level. It is hand pulped, fermented for 12-36 hours, washed, and dried on household patios for up to 15 days depending on weather conditions. Subsequently it is prepared for export at Ixchel mill by UNEX.

Asociacion Civil Comercializadora Maya Alternativa

Asociacion Civil Comercializadora Maya Alternativa (COMAL) was formed in 2006 by three associations (one being a women producer association). Sharing a dedication to sustainable ecology, they united with the objective of strengthening their technical and productive capacities. Their collective power allows them to better commercialize their coffee and gain access to technical training and assistance, certifications, roasting and packaging services, access to organic inputs, and forest nursery projects – all critical tools for improving livelihood that were previously difficult to attain. Additionally, the association encourages youth participation and seeks to empower women, evidenced by their positioning on the Board of Directors as well as project managers.

Farmers Aid provides supply chain support and UNEX sources quality coffee from communities with strong values. Together, their initiative is built around four main pillars: health, education, sustainability, and a Coffee and Climate-Alliance with Neumann Foundation. They have created annual access to eleven medical and dental clinics in key coffee regions, accessible to small producers. Additionally, they facilitate eleven kindergarten and camp programs for the children of producers, held at strategic times of year to mitigate child labor. Their sustainability effort consists of the MOCCA Program (a USAID Alliance) that provides training to over 3000 small producers in Santa Rosa and Central Valley Regions, including training in best agricultural practices and entrepreneurial education.

New programs in process under the Farmer Aid Initiative at UNEX include a full renovation of their flagship wet mill in Alotenango, Sacatepequez, which will result in significant reduction of water usage. They are also partnering with World Central Kitchens to donate 100 gas stoves to smallholder producers, replacing wood stoves, which will impact individuals’ health as well as reduce carbon emissions.

Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) is an independent foundation working to support smallholder families in coffee regions. Much of their work is executed through partnerships with like-minded organizations in public and private sectors and focuses on the welfare and education of youth as well as protection of the environment.

This community’s partnership with HRNS has been a long-term collaboration. They were previously linked through HRNS the Coffee Kids Program, which raised capital to support young producers in the form of grants. These grants resulted in the implementation of Bee Keeping and Laying Hens projects, executed by individual producers in the community.

Current support from HRNS is multi-faceted. They provide year-round field training, seed capital for business start-ups, donation of rust-resistant coffee varieties to producers, and access to a diversification program that promotes inter-crop planting of fruit and avocado trees.

Guatemala Huehuetenango Pioneers takes its name from the HRNS Climate Pioneers, a group of producers who have completed the Pioneer Curriculum, focused on building climate-smart agricultural practices. Additionally, HRNS supports youth participation through the entire coffee value chain and supports youth-led enterprises.


History of Guatemalan Coffee

Although coffee was brought over from the Caribbean in the mid-18th century by Jesuit priests, it was used primarily as an ornamental plant and garden crop for 100 years in Guatemala. Coffee wasn’t widely traded, however, until commercial production began in the 1850s. The volcanic soil and various micro-climates proved ideal for growing coffee in Guatemala. Coffee, within a generation, became the country’s most important crop. In 1860, Guatemala exported 140,000 pounds of coffee, and just 25 years later, the country was exporting over 40 million pounds. Large numbers of coffee farmers were German immigrants responsible for many inventions and innovations related to coffee milling. Most of Guatemala’s coffee was exported to Germany until the First World War, when exports shifted to the United States.

Guatemala with our flavor notes of nectarine, chocolate and with a white peach finish.

Guatemala Huehuetenango Pioneer

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Mike is excited to introduce our Nicaragua La Bastilla Estate Buena Vista Obata, this medium juicy body, malty chocolate, sweet nutty nougat, red sweet apple throughout the cup will become one of your favorites Klatch has to offer.

A cross between Timor Hybrid and Villa Sarchi, the Obata varietal was originally developed in Brazil and in 2014 was introduced into Costa Rica by the local coffee institute, ICAFE. It is known for being a highly productive arabica with a high tolerance to rust.

La Bastilla Estate pride there-selves to be one of the few (if not the only) specialty coffee estate companies in Nicaragua with a fully integrated supply chain segment at origin; meaning we plant, produce, harvest, process, classify and market/export all of our green coffee beans directly from the farm to their final destination all around the world. Therefore, we guarantee the quality and traceability of our products. The production of special, certified Rainforest Alliance coffee.

La Bastilla Estate are currently working on a coffee plantation renovation program, to expand the next five years. They are thrilled that both of our plantations have consistently been certified by Rainforest Alliance since 2003. The process of renewing part of our old plantations, replanting hybrid and good cupping varieties was started in 2017 and you will see the results in this years crop.

La Bastilla has developed an interesting matrix of micro-lot processing during the past 2 years, which have found good acceptance in the specialty coffee community worldwide. We harvest and process separately and from fully mature cherries coffee from 19 different sections of the farm, each from different live zones (i.e. altitude, sun exposure, soil conditions, tree coverage) expressing different cup profiles.

This medium juicy body, malty chocolate, sweet nutty nougat, red sweet apple.

Nicaragua Buena Vista Obata

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Cacao, cedar and bell pepper with a hint of lavender floral notes.

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