Light Roasts

Royal Select Water Processed Decaf coffee is sourced from lots that the Royal team has selected based on cupping evaluations. After selection, the green coffee is pre-soaked in water to expand the beans for caffeine extraction. Unlike decaffeination processes that use chemicals, the beans are then introduced to a solution concentrated with coffee solubles that extract the caffeine without extracting the coffee’s particular flavor.

Arriving from the Dota micro-region in Tarrazu, this is La Minita's trademarked Dota coffee. It has the classic piquant acidity and lively winey flavor expected of the region's best coffees. It is well balanced with notes of lush tropical fruit and bittersweet chocolate, and has a smooth pronounced body.

Asociación de Productores de Café Diferenciados y Especiales de Guatemala (ASPROCDEGUA) is a producing organization with 664 contributing members, the women of whom have separated out some of their coffee to make this Women Coffee Producers offering. The producing members own small farms, an average of 2 hectares each, on which they plant coffee as well as other crops for diversification, including bananas, citrus fruit like oranges and lemons, avocado, guava, and cassava. The organization offers its members access to technical assistance and routinely provides services such as soil analysis, test farms, and social projects based on food security, education, and nutrition.

The smallholders of ASPROCDEGUA are from several different municipalities within the area, including San Marcos, Cuilco, Colotenango, Santa Bárbara, San Sebastián Huehuetenango, Sipacapa, San Antonio Huisa, Cantinil Union, San Pedro Necta, Todos Santos, and Concepción Huista.

Our Hometown Blend highlights two excellent direct trade light roast coffees from Guatemala and Cameroon. It’s well balanced with a pleasant green apple acidity and a crisp, rich finish. Both sweet and nutty, it goes great with cream and sugar or on its own.

San Cristobal works with over 260 growing farmers clustered around the extinct volcano, Cerro San Juan. The micro climate and volcanic soil give this coffee its bright, floral and citrus flavors.