Panama Hacienda la Esmeralda (Green Beans Unroasted)

Origin: Panama

100% Arabica Geisha beans

Since 2004, Hacienda La Esmeralda Panama has gone on to win a great number of major coffee industry awards and to set several online coffee auction price records. This makes it the hardest coffee to find. No one will have it no matter the price. Fortunatly we have a friend  in Panama that could source it for us. It took 6 years to get one sack.

1st in Specialty Coffee Asociation of America Roasters Guild cupping pavilion
1st in Best of Panama Naturals category
1st in Rain Forest Alianse for cupping quality

Panama is a rising star in the specialty coffee world. In the Boquete in particular, farmers are taking Arabica coffee cultivation to new levels and recent auctions of small, specialty lots have garnered record, if not silly, prices. Nonetheless, some of the coffee is excellent. Gesha, a varietal that stems from Ethiopia, has been grown here with good success, yet other cultivars noted above, can produce superb results.